Water of life

Watershed management emerges as an effective ecological conservation method

Pouring prosperity

The micro-watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought-prone …

The miracle of the hills and the humans

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Tall promises

The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers

It holds no water

Shoddy planning and poor execution mar many watershed revival projects

Watershed deals

Indo-Bangladesh water talks seem to have taken a positive turn while critics still consider the issue a washed out case

Grafting ziziphus

Tapping potential

Sonia in Jhabua

Sonia Gandhi visits Jhabua and bears witness to a green revolution

Website Review: http://www.wotr.org

The concept of water harvesting is catching like wild fire across the length and breadth of the nation. For those interested in knowing more …

The fruits of water

Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off

From bonded labourers to green crusaders

Impoverished tribals living in the shadow of the Sahyadri hills show how degraded land can be revived by simply working unitedly

Water out of stone

A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons

300 dead, and counting

Andhra Pradesh is a watershed for agriculture in post-independent India. For the government

Human touch in credit

The growth of a women's group that moved from being a savings unit to a social voice

Going places

Madhya Pradesh chief minister will speak on watershed management at a world forum

Drought Action

The economics of empowerment

New initiative

LEARNING THE VALUE OF T R E E S

NAME - Mangilal Rawat AGE - 45 CASTE - Bhil FATHER'S NAME - Sur Singh VILLAGE - Ojhad BLOCK - Sondwa DISTRICT - Jhabua

A sweet solution

CYBERBABU OF HYDERABAD

Chandrababu Naidu ia known more for his obsession with technology and computers. Little is known about his watershed mission

THE KING OF SMALL THINGS

A civil engineer and a farmer, he knows the importance of the relationship between land and water. Small dams are his forte.

Lone warrior

One man's battle to save a village economy