Access to water a will define  development throughout the world in the near future.  We need to explore ways of using water sustaianably.  New technologies and policies will need to...

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 Kaluvelly tank is one of Tamil Nadu’s biggest water sheds and is a central node in the traditional network of tanks. It plays a central role in traditional rain water catchment and is of utmo...

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...

An eco-city in the making has to look at and integrate a number of key aspects of a sustainable development. Such key aspects are: environmental restoration, organic agriculture, solar passive archite...

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...