Village level communities must take up water harvesting works under MGNREGA before the rains…it will bring supplemental incomes to rural households and water recharge. How can farmers achieve this? Each district must launch an intensive campaign for water conservation works and catch the first rains. Read an excerpt from ‘Poor but Spirited in Karimnagar,’ on how local communities can achieve this in an amazing manner:
AMAZING WATER CONSERVATION BY THE COMMUNITY
Concerns on water conservation led to some interesting innovations under a programme locally called Neeru Meeru (water and you). This was a state-driven programme of the Andhra Pradesh government under which small-scale water conservation works were promoted in the villages, involving the local population. One of the methods utilized was desiltation of tanks, thereby restoring their storage capacity and also improving the permeability of these water bodies through the removal of silt. Consequently, this led to an improvement in the groundwater recharge capacity of the water body.
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