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 global water crisis. We have a big challenge ahead of us – and thus our responses must be suitably bold. This is the vision […]
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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.
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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 resource. #JalTara is on a mission of massive groundwater recharge at nation-scale speed – with a goal to reach over 150 million people across 100,000 villages in five years. Rural and underprivileged communities
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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. The first batch of 9 backhoes are on the ground – more are arriving each day. This year we hope to complete over 30 thousand
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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 massively scalable approach to this crisis – and the answer lies underground. With the JalTara #groundwater recharge approach now proven across 19,000 acres in drought
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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 #JalTara project to combat climate change through massive #groundwater recharge. Our goal is to now scale up to 100,000 villages in five years – and to recharge groundwater by over 30
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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 of land. This will enable us to store an estimated 16 billion liters of water annually – while
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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 villages to prepare for the actual work of digging the recharge pits.. Read more in the article here.
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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 full article here
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