News and information about the global water crisis as well as about how JalTara is addressing this challenge
News and Articles
Rapidly Solving the Global Water Crisis
After nearly five years of working on the JalTara groundwater project, I am excited and honored to announce the Save Groundwater Foundation – a new organization focused on rapidly solving the gl…
Read MoreJalTara – The Cheapest way for Nation-Scale Groundwater Recharge
Following is a short analysis of how we spent about 16 dollars to recharge a million liters of groundwater AND scaled that to about 27 billion liters annually. For the full article go here.
Read MoreJalTara – Democratizing Access to Water
Access to #water is uneven across the globe – especially impacting rural regions. I strongly believe that #groundwater has the ability to democratize access to this precious …
Read MoreJalTara – So Many Pits, So Little Time
The machines are coming, the machines are coming! Am excited to share that after 4 months of intense prep work, the #JalTara project has finally started digging the recharge pits in villages…
Read MoreSolve California’s Drought/Flood Crisis with a Better Groundwater Approach
Looking at the devastating drought/flood crisis in California and in fact across the world, I am struck by how #water rules our lives. Over the last few years, I have been working on a massi…
Read MoreClimate Change & Groundwater – Why Scale is the Real Problem to Solve
The ability to massively scale up is the most critical part of any #climatechange solution. Everything else is merely a lab experiment. I am super excited about results from the #JalTar…
Read More50 Villages and 16 Billion Liters of Water
Here is a quick overview of my short visit to Jalna last weekend, for the JalTara water project. Our goal is to dig 25,000 recharge pits across 50 villages before the monsoons – one in each acre…
Read MoreWater Rejuvenation and Importance of Grassroots Engagement
When solving water challenges in rural villages, the importance of farmer engagement and buy in cannot be overlooked. The JalTara team has been holding daily meetings for over two months in 50 village…
Read MoreJalTara – The Promise of Enough Water
JalTara is a vision to increase water storage by trillions of liters across India. We have already proven that the methodology works – now our goal is to scale up to 100,000 villages. Read the f…
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