Water Information and resources

A pond in the town of Thenzawl in Mizoram India (Image:Wikimedia)

• Water and the future of life on earth | DW Documentary

Traditional/Organic Farming and Water-Harvesting--are the two best solutions to reduce water shortage, pollution, disease, unemployment and poverty--in India. Please see the collection of videos below for more information.

1. How can India tackle its water crisis? - BBC News

2. Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater | USA TODAY

3. Water shortage/crisis/drought videos, click here

4. When Every Drop Counts (Hindi version): A documentary on the legacy of rainwater harvesting

5. Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

   1. 1. • More videos of Anupam Mishra.

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anupam_Mishra

7. Let's talk about water: A desert speaks. | Arati Kumar-Rao | TEDxWhitefield

Mullookkaaran, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rajendra Singh (born 6 August 1959) is an Indian water conservationist and environmentalist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as "waterman of India", he won the Magsaysay Award in 2001 and Stockholm Water Prize in 2015.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_Singh (video)

1. Living Planet: India′s ′water man′ revives streams ... - DW

2. Manoj Tibrewal Aakash Interviewed Mr. Rajendra Singh Waterman for DD News's Ek Mulaqat

By Ilya Mauter - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6239021

1. A documentary film on rainwater harvesting directed by Anjali Nayar and supported by the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program, Anand: www.iwmi-tata.blogspot.com(video)

2. Dewas Ke Bhagirath HD - देवास के भगीरथ (हाई डेफिनेशन

3. Rapid Urbanization and Water Conservation | Dr. T.V. Ramachandra | TEDxIIMBangalore

4. List of Water Bodies in Delhi. (pdf)

5. Water Bodies news

Paani Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

1. Satyamev Jayate Aamir Khan | Official Theme Song - YouTube

2. Toofan Aalaya Song, Satyamev Jayate, (video)

Paani Foundation

Paani Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization which is active in the area of drought prevention and watershed management in the state of Maharashtra, India. The organization was founded by Indian actor Aamir Khan and his wife, Kiran Rao.

1. Wikipedia

2. 29 Watershed Management Training Films, click here

3. Youtube Videos

Image by Margit Wallner from Pixabay

Kailash Mohankar, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Modern Large-scale Dam/Canal Irrigation-related ecological disasters

1. The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea, (video)

2. Britain’s Damaged Rivers - Professor Carolyn Roberts

3. Iraq's Dying Rivers

4. Remains of a River: Full-Length Film

5. Are dams killing the Mekong river? | DW News

6. The Sahibi River, now called the Najafgarh Drain in Delhi, due to to the concretisation and pollution.

7. Reviving rivers across the world--by dam removal.

8. Dam removal--World News

9. Concrete removal from rivers

10. Effect of concrete or plastic lining of ponds and canals

• Satyamev Jayate S1 | Episode 12 | Water | Full Episode (Hindi)

1. Satyamev Jayate--Drought / Water Conservation--videos

2. The Battle Against Drought (Hindi) | Satyamev Jayate Water Cup 2016 | Paani Foundation, (Video)

Image by Bishnu Sarangi from Pixabay

1. Poor Water Management Leads To Drought | Paani Foundation Patoda Case Study | Eng. Subtitles

2. Sugarcane emerges as likely culprit in drought-hit Marathwada; growing cultivation of cash crop depleted groundwater

3. Sugarcane Subsidy

• Water harvesting principles & the story of an African rain farmer. Design guidelines, (Video)