It rained in March and now in the middle of May Auroville still looks green: might this be a sign of climate change? Gilles is one of the executives of Water Harvest which is an Auroville unit st...

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...

The groundwater studies carried out by Auroville Water Harvest (the implementing Agency) in some of the villages and in Auroville covered by the Kaluvelli watershed showed excessive extraction of grou...

Auroville Water Harvest gives us a comprehensive view of the hydrologic cycle of the Kaluvelly-Pondicherry sedimentary basin by studying the water resources and water quality evolution of a sedime...

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...

Water management is one of Auroville’s expertise, a substantial body of knowledge is available and has been implemented through various projects. Areas of implementation are rain water harvesting...

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...

Water covers about two-thirds of the Earth's surface, but only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty. Humans have available less than 0.08% of all the Earth's water. Yet over the next two decades our...