water security
Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?

Resistance to such destructive projects by helping the communities and their organisations fight them and developing alternatives through research and capacity building should be seen as part of our interventions or engagement in the urban space.

मरुभूमि में पानी की रिश्तेदारी (In Hindi)

राजस्थान के तालाब सैकड़ों सालों से सदानीरा है। इन पानीदार परंपराओं की सार-संभाल गांववालों ने की है। अब इन्हें संभालने का जिम्मा युवा और महिलाओं ने लिया है।

Covid-19 calls for a new agriculture

Development paradigms need to integrate livelihood goals with those of sustainability and health.

Groundwater Regulation: A Challenge to make the ‘Invisible Visible’ in India

Acknowledging groundwater as ‘commons’ is an important step in the right direction.

India’s Youth Have a Right and Duty to Resist and Create; Elders Need to Enable This or Get Out of the Way

Enable the flourishing of the youth’s own agency, be available for guiding, give them a sense of history, facilitate a range of options

Pandemic Resilience in the Western Himalayas

Himalayan communities demonstrating perseverence, resilience and tenacity in the face of COVID19.

Springs that sustain millions

Women of Himachal's villages - no longer trudging miles to fetch safe drinking water

Women Revive Traditional Water Sources in Uttarakhand

"... after pipelines got damaged in the 2013 floods, people started visiting these traditional sources of water once again,”

Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves

Over 3,000 canals spread across 5,000 hectares dug in order to save mangroves that supported the fish on which the community dependes.