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This learning note explores the need for a framework like WISER (Water Index for Sustainability, Equity, and Resilience)—a science-based approach to tracking and enhancing water security in India. WISER leverages data, remote sensing, and stakeholder engagement to support evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable water management.
WISER (Water Index for Sustainability, Equity, and Resilience) is a science-based framework to track and improve water security across India. It leverages data, remote sensing, and stakeholder inputs to enable evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable water management. This study showcases the results of the initiative’s first phase.
Published in Mongabay India
Jaltol is a web app that helps evaluate the impact of watershed programmes on both water access and economic prosperity
A paired watershed study is a research method that compares two neighbouring watersheds over an extended period to understand how changes in land and watershed management affect hydrological parameters
There is considerable spatial heterogeneity in rainfall patterns in India. This makes the staff gauge method especially useful as it can be easily applied to multiple water storage structures.
An overview of hydrological assessment tools for better monitoring, evaluation, and learning in watershed management
Published in Deccan Herald
Published in PLOS Water
Effective adaptation to climate change is essential in agriculture, this study highlights critical successes and overlooked gaps.
Why Context Matters in Participatory Groundwater Management
WELL Labs and Environmental Defense Fund are assessing a groundwater collectivisation programme designed to promote equitable and resilient management of shared water resources.
Recharge pits aim to tackle waterlogging and groundwater recharge in Jalna’s black soil regions, but design improvements are critical for sustained impact.
As climate change exacerbates water scarcity in India, integrating digital tools with participatory community planning becomes essential.
At the MEL Roundtable experts discussed how monitoring, evaluation, and learning practices can transform water security efforts in India.
Published in The Shillong Times
WELL Labs and EDF conducted a monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) study to assess the impact of recharge pits on groundwater recharge and waterlogging mitigation in the basaltic region of Maharashtra.
This report is a rapid literature survey of the rural water and sanitation landscape of India. It aims to converge on identifying the choke points and key issues in rural WASH systems and understand what specific measures are needed to support frontline workers who contribute to better WASH outcomes.
WELL Labs has partnered with the Environmental Defense Fund to scientifically evaluate Jaltara, a water-saving intervention developed by the Save Groundwater Foundation in Maharashtra’s Jalna district. In this blog, we explain how soil, water and cropping patterns are linked.
Ahead of the Data for Water Security Hackathon, we put together this use case to help demonstrate how Jaltol could potentially be used to more accurately measure how water management efforts by Tarun Bharat Sangh is impacting the region.