Paani Wali Baat

'Beri'
Beri/Kui means the chicken that lays the golden egg. The Beri is 10 to 15 feet deep. Beri is the main source of water in the desert even today.

Location - Netasi Village, Ramgarh (Jaisalmer)


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'Beri' Beri/Kui means the chicken that lays the golden egg. The Beri is 10 to 15 feet deep. Beri is the main source of water in the desert even today. Location - Netasi Village, Ramgarh (Jaisalmer) 📸 captured by - @bhatta_ram_ #worldwaterday2022 #groundwater #paaniwalibaat

The sound of water!


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The sound of water! #calm #peaceful #soothing #worldwaterday2022💧 #paani_wali_baat Videos captured by : @divyashaarora

Water- a necessity.

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Managing Alluvial Aquifers: Key contemporary challenges in Groundwater governance.


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Managing Alluvial Aquifers: Key contemporary challenges in Groundwater governance Alluvial aquifers mean the life and livelihood of millions and more importantly, the vital elements for ecological wellbeing. But groundwater development practices of the past few decades had led m…

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Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat

Rani-ki-Vav, on the banks of the Saraswati River, was initially built as a memorial to a king in the 11th century AD.
Stepwells are a distinctive form of subterranean water resource and storage systems on the Indian subcontinent, and have been constructed since the 3rd millennium BC. They evolved over time from what was basically a pit in sandy soil towards elaborate multi-storey works of art and architecture.
Rani-ki-Vav was built at the height of craftsmens’ ability in stepwell construction and the Maru-Gurjara architectural style, reflecting mastery of this complex technique and great beauty of detail and proportions.
Designed as an inverted temple highlighting the sanctity of water, it is divided into seven levels of stairs with sculptural panels of high artistic quality; more than 500 principle sculptures and over a thousand minor ones combine religious, mythological and secular imagery, often referencing literary works. The fourth level is the deepest and leads into a rectangular tank 9.5 m by 9.4 m, at a depth of 23 m. The well is located at the westernmost end of the property and consists of a shaft 10 m in diameter and 30 m deep.

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Wooing voters in a flood-affected state: A look into the manifestos for Assam elections 2021

A guest blog by Vaishali Kashyap.

Wooing voters in a flood-affected state: A look into the manifestos for Assam elections 2021 Wooing voters in a flood-affected state: A look into the manifestos for Assam elections 2021. With political big-wigs engaging in mud-slinging at each other, over the issue of floods in Assam, in r…

United farmers are answer to SYL dispute.

The comprehensive discussions and sharing arrangement brought by farmers’ collective, farmers’ unions and other beneficiaries can potentially provide a meaningful solution to this water dispute.

How farmers’ protest can be the answer to Satluj-Yamuna Canal dispute Discussions and sharing arrangement brought by farmers’ collective, unions and other beneficiaries can potentially provide a meaningful solution to the water dispute

A detailed analysis of Union Budget 2021-22 from the water lens. The Paradox of Promises, Priorities and Provisions for Water.


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Union Budget 2021-2022: Water and Money aren’t ‘hand in hand’ A detailed analysis of Union Budget 2021-22 from the water lens. The Paradox of Promises, Priorities and Provisions for Water.

While there is a pressing need for policy-level interventions to capture surface runoff and promote infiltration, practices that are implemented should simultaneously assess the impact that is made in the respective context. The adoption of the two identified grassroots level solutions and scaling up of the techniques based on the local context can be a few of the many other solutions that can address the national groundwater crisis.

It is evident that individuals can also play a crucial role in understanding the local hydrogeological condition to ensure the balance between extraction rates and recharge patterns. As more people take up such responsibility at the grassroots level, these decentralised approaches can ensure that the practices correspond to the needs of the people and the sustainability of the environment.

Groundwater recharge needs grassroots solutions: A study of two techniques in Kerala In Kerala, around half the urban population and 80% of the rural population depend on open wells on their domestic water needs. But in the last decade, the majority of observatory wells recorded an average annual decline of half a meter.

While in the rest of water-strapped Haryana, the issue has been addressed with technological interventions and there has been a measure of success, they have not yielded the same results in southwest Haryana.

One of the reasons could be that in this part, the habitation is scattered rather than clustered. Eighty two per cent of families having more than one hectare of land live in individual farms, and not in village clusters. This scattered habitation pattern had hindered collective action in the management of water resources.

Easy accessibility to water, thanks to the borewells, has also led to intensive agriculture and 90 per cent of the net sown area that was once fully rainfed 50 years ago is now irrigated. Also, rabi crop like gram that is drought-resistant and does not need too much water, has been mostly replaced by wheat and mustard. Also, instead of native varieties, farmers prefer to grow hybrid and improved varieties with better yields.

A Sinking Feeling: Southwest Haryana in trouble as groundwater levels plunge - Gaonconnection | Your Connection with Rural India With the advent of borewells and pumps, people in southwest Haryana are digging deeper to access water. The region has one of the country's worst cases of groundwater depletion.

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