Restoring the water beneath our feet.

The Global Water Crisis

Short video on our JalTara vision to solve the global flood & drought crisis.

The UN describes climate change as “primarily a water crisis“.

Extreme weather is causing both severe floods and droughts—in fact, there’s been a 29% increase in droughts and a 134% increase in floods since 2000. With 50% of humanity under risk of water stress by 2030, we are running out of time to solve this crisis.

We believe that groundwater is the ONLY way to solve the global flood & drought crisis because underground reserves hold 100 times more freshwater than all the world’s lakes, rivers, and reservoirs combined.

A crisis of this magnitude and urgency requires an equally bold & rapid solution. This is the heart of Save Groundwater’s JalTara vision: a low-cost, large-scale approach for rapid and massive groundwater recharge addressing both droughts and floods.

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India Goal: Solve Water Crisis in a Decade

- 100,000 villages
- 50 million JalTara recharge pits
- 30 trillion liters of water
- 150 million rural lives
The scalable JalTara approach involves digging large numbers (500+) of small recharge pits (~6 feet deep and 4 feet across, filled with rocks) at the lowest point in every farmland acre.
We have already dug over 135,000 pits across 250+ villages in Maharashtra, demonstrating both effectiveness and scalability.
- Water tables improved YoY (March) by 14 feet
- Farmer incomes increased by 120% on average
- Crop yields improved by 42%
- Acreage under cultivation increased by 58%
- Crop spoilage due to flooding virtually eliminated