Tarun Bharat Sangh

By | December 18, 2018

India

Tarun Bharat SanghTarun Bharat Sangh works with communities in semi-arid Rajasthan, India, restoring traditional water catchment systems to revitalize rural communities and ecosystems. After successfully restoring the water table in Alwar Village in 1985 by rebuilding a disused johad (a crescent-shaped dam to capture rainwater runoff), the organization went on to restore groundwater and forests in more than 750 villages in Rajasthan and beyond.

Read more about Tarun Bharat Sangh and similar initiatives in our article series on water sovereignty.

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Category: Built Environment, Ecology

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