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Chasing the Water Table: The Impact of Groundwater Depletion on Rural Drinking Water Supply in Peninsular India
Published in PLOS Water
Hits and Misses: Water-based Climate Adaptation Interventions for Agriculture
Effective adaptation to climate change is essential in agriculture, this study highlights critical successes and overlooked gaps.
Addressing Depletion in Alluvial Aquifers
Why Context Matters in Participatory Groundwater Management
Transforming Rainfed Agriculture with Groundwater Collectivisation
WELL Labs and Environmental Defense Fund are assessing a groundwater collectivisation programme designed to promote equitable and resilient management of shared water resources.
Can Recharge Pits Address Waterlogging and Drought in Marathwada? | Initial Insights
Recharge pits aim to tackle waterlogging and groundwater recharge in Jalna’s black soil regions, but design improvements are critical for sustained impact.
Unpredictable Rainfall Makes Farming in Marathwada Even Harder
Published in The Hindu
Enhancing Water Security in Rural India with Digital Tools: Insights from Field Testing
As climate change exacerbates water scarcity in India, integrating digital tools with participatory community planning becomes essential.
Transforming Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning in the Water Sector: Lessons from the MEL Roundtable
At the MEL Roundtable experts discussed how monitoring, evaluation, and learning practices can transform water security efforts in India.
Creating Kaveri Delta beneath our feet: An experiment in grounding socio-hydrology in Tamil Nadu, India
This study explores how socio-hydrology can be grounded in real-world contexts through an experimental approach in Tamil Nadu’s Kaveri Delta, integrating science with society.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Recharge Pits in Marathwada (Part 1)
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.
Why do parts of Maharashtra experience different water stress levels?
Published in The Hindu
Rural Water and Sanitation in India: Emerging Challenges and Livelihood Opportunities
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.
Why Jalna’s Wells Run Dry: Understanding Water and Soil in Drought-Prone Maharashtra
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.
Jaltol and Johads: Tracking the Impact of Watershed Management in Rajasthan
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.
WELL Labs Partners with IHE Delft, ACIWRM to Develop Community-Driven Data Solutions
WELL Labs has partnered with ACIWRM and IHE Delft to understand and improve community-driven applications of remote sensing data in India’s Krishna river basin.
Remote Sensing in Rajasthan: Can Jaltol Buttress Traditional Johads?
We team up with Tarun Bharat Sangh to see how remote sensing can aid planning, impact evaluation and scaling up for johads, the traditional earthen embankments that are key to water conservation efforts in Rajasthan
How Often are India’s Farming Patterns Changing? With IIT Delhi, We Turn to New Land Use Maps for Answers
Remote sensing data validated through reports from the ground can capture changes in spatial agricultural patterns down to plot level. This blog sheds light on land use maps developed by IIT Delhi called IndiaSAT.
Rural Water Security: How Our Vision for Jaltol Has Progressed
WELL Labs is co-developing with its partners simple user-friendly tools, under the Jaltol framework, to help us diagnose the magnitude of water mismanagement and track our progress towards water security.
Drinking Water for Every Rural Household: A Tamil Nadu Village Highlights Challenges
We visited Nadiyam, a coastal village in Tamil Nadu, to examine water supply under the Jal Jeevan Mission and the challenges in sustaining piped drinking water access in rural areas