Building check dams in the canyons is a highly efficient way of erosion control and rain water catchment. It also allows nature to restore itself, trees and hedges are growing in the canyons and anima...

Auroville Water Harvest is working with several European NGOs and with the City of Hilden, Germany to carry out our salt water intrusion mitigation work and associated work to protect the aquifers of ...

Auroville Water Harvest is working with several European NGOs and with the City of Hilden, Germany to carry out our salt water intrusion mitigation work and associated work to protect the aquifers of...

Auroville Water Harvest is working with several European NGOs and with the City of Hilden, Germany to carry out our salt water intrusion mitigation work and associated work to protect the aquifers ...

The coastal area of Tamil Nadu is suffering of heavy over exploitation of groundwater due to lack of awareness of the population on the limited resources, but also because of a lack of management o...

South India is going to face a big challenge, ‘lack of water’.  This goes back to the lack of water resource management, groundwater depletion, pollution and the threat of saltwater intrusion To...

From 2006 to 2008 Harvest worked on the Hilden project. Two objectives of this projects were to improve the irrigation capacity of dry land farmers by constructing series of check dams and to recharg...

Auroville Water Harvest  did a pilot project for sustainable durable  development through integrated water resources development in a selected villages in coastal Tamil Nadu. The pilot project ...

Tamil Nadu is about to face a water crisis. More water is pumped from the underground aquifers than recharged by the annual monsoon rains. Since 1970, the number of bore wells increased exponential...

A former school teacher, Kireet got into repairing check dams a few years after arriving in Auroville from Holland in the mid 90s.After observing the sweeping tons of topsoil into the sea, he was d...