In the past two years, SRDS has been involved in rejuvenating large village community ponds throughout the Gadag District. In this area many of the traditional water bodies that have supplied the villagers with potable water for years, have become degraded, filled with built up silt and overgrown with weeds and other vegetation. Some have been used as… Read More »
This is Bibijan Pathan age -57 She lives in her own house at Kundagol Village, Dharwad District, Karnataka. Her husband passed away two years ago. So she is now her sole supporter. For the past eight years since receiving a microfinance loan, Bibijan as been doing a business selling cloth. She is a member of her local Mabusubani… Read More »
Our Gram Seva Project area received a visit from the President and COO of the SBI Foundation on March 20th. He visited many of the area development programs and in Basapur Village inaugurated the Raita Bandhu – Watershed Initiative Project. During the ceremony, the newly purchased JCB Excavator key was handed over to mark the occasion. The program… Read More »
In Keroshi Village – Balgaum District – the farmers have had a great result after one rainy season. We carried out a pilot bore well recharge project with 5 bore wells. The Fincare Small Finance Bank supported the implementation of our twin ring method of bore well recharge. This was done in May 2022. In early September we… Read More »
This eco-sustainablity journey was attended by three international guests in September 2018. Susan Sadler – one of our travellers from Perth Western Australia – shares her experience here of the visit we made to see the bore well recharge water harvesting project here in Karnataka. And Rupa Fitzgerald of Melbourne Australia talks about the work of SRDS… Read More »
Last week we visited Anantapur. We had done 75 borewell recharge implementations here just prior to the onset of monsoon. Now we returned to see the results. It was extremely heartening – seeing the flow of water from previously dried up borewells – hearing the reports of farmers who are now able to irrigate their whole acreage –… Read More »
In May, 2017, we were invited to Mundgod the second largest Tibetan Refugee Settlement in India. There we implemented a bore well recharge for two student hostels – girls and boys – using the roof top rain water from the buildings. Here are some photos of the work – done with stone wall pond and the twin ring… Read More »
Our Road Trip for Water is Completed. Wow.. we did it .. Two thousand one hundred and ninety Kilometres in our little Maruti Omni van! Are we crazy? Probably! Did we have fun?.. absolutely! Did we learn stuff?.. most certainly. Did we make a difference? We think so. We drove and laughed and played silly games – the… Read More »
Beed District Survey Visit Here at Gandar Village in Beed, District Darur Taluk we are doing survey to assess the area for bore well recharge supported by the work of the Save Indian Farmers NGO. We are very grateful to the Water.Org Challenge for the connections made during this challenge which brought us to collaboration with Hemant Joshi… Read More »
In Ashok Nagar Hubbali, SRDS has commenced work on a community well. Ms Gayatri Prabhu has been working tirelessly to convince the society people to raise funds to restore their old well. Built in approximately 1950, the first Prime Minister of India visited and inaugurated this society After his visit they dug this well. Now silted up and… Read More »
