Water management

Bhaktaraj Garje came to Kulalwadi village of Sangli district in Maharashtra as a primary school teacher but he became a hero helping to double villagers' income and amplifying water conservation

Team LinkLer, comprising students of National Institute of Technology Andhra Pradesh, have developed a 'WiFi mounted microcontroller' that can integrate sensors for smart harvesting of rainwater. This system requires minimal human intervention.

In the water-stressed district of Puducherry, IAS officer Dr T Arun developed Neer Padhivu, a mobile app through which he launched a water conservation project to revive lakes, ponds and canals.

Manju Nath and his wife Geeta built their dream eco-friendly home in Bengaluru with solar panels, rainwater harvesting pits while growing their own organic food.

Debashish Sen introduced the System of Rice (or Root) Intensification (SRI) technique to farmers in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in 2006, which was originally invented in the 1980s in Madagascar.

On World Water Day, Gazala Paul, founder of Ahmedabad-based NGO Samerth, talks about how she helped 97 villages in Kutch fight a massive water crisis through a community-led initiative.

Dr Ujjwal Chavan, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai, has run a massive water conservation initiative to rejuvenate the river and improve groundwater tables in several Maharashtra villages, including Dhamangaon, where he is originally from. His efforts have benefited around 30,000 farmers so far.

Onkar Gauridhar, Amit Deshmukh and Shishir Thakur launched Cranberry Analytics in Pune to streamline the municipal corporation’s water supply metering system and cut water loss by 35%

“After the water body completely transformed, we were surprised to notice that 10 to 15 different species of birds had begun to migrate here."

“In effect, your regular kitchen basin tap is replaced with the one that we have designed,” explains Arjun. With this alteration, when you switch on the tap, the RO wastewater gets mixed with regular water and flows out.