Environment
How a Kutch village turned a dry lake into a year-round water bank
Desilting, a ring of check dams and a strict village rulebook brought back a lake that had been dry for most of the last two decades.
Kabir Sethi2 min read
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3 stories tagged water conservation.
Innovation
Two Pune engineers built a ₹900 sensor that tells farmers exactly when to irrigate
A soil-moisture probe made from off-the-shelf parts sends a single SMS when a field needs water, and farmers using it report using about a third less.
Arjun Deshmukh1 min read
VideoCulture & Heritage
Volunteers restored a 400-year-old stepwell in Rajasthan. Now it is full again
Two years of weekend work by 300 volunteers cleared tonnes of debris and brought water back to a forgotten baori.
Meera Pillai1 min read