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It rained in March and now in the middle of May Auroville still looks green: might this be a sign of climate change? Gilles is one of the executives of Water Harvest which is an Auroville unit st...
The area around Auroville is covered by an interconnected network of rainwater storage tanks (erys) and ponds (ooranis) that flow into the Kaluvelly Swamp. Many centuries ago, there were thousands of ...
The coastal area of Tamil Nadu is suffering of heavy over exploitation of groundwater due to lack of awareness of the population on the limited resources, but also because of a lack of management o...
The groundwater studies carried out by Auroville Water Harvest (the implementing Agency) in some of the villages and in Auroville covered by the Kaluvelli watershed showed excessive extraction of grou...
The Kaluvelly tank is one of Tamil Nadu’s biggest water sheds and is a central node in the traditional network of tanks. It plays a central role in traditional rain water catchment and is of utmo...
Tamil Nadu is about to face a water crisis. More water is pumped from the underground aquifers than recharged by the annual monsoon rains. Since 1970, the number of bore wells increased exponential...
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