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Have a look at our news stories & videos below to find out more about how our rainwater harvesting programmes are improving health, reducing poverty, building climate change resilience and freeing girls/women from water procurement...
WaterHarvest to close in 2027, our 40th Anniversary year. Although this is sad news, our anniversary feels like an appropriate milestone to bring the charity to a close and we have much to celebrate from our four decades of rainwater harvesting. Find out more here.
Our News
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News from Charasada, November 2022
Life is looking up for two women Lali Devi lives in Roshanpura. She was responsible for fetching drinking water for her family from the village handpump 3 km away, and from an open well in the river near her house during the summer season. In high summer – March to June – the open well…
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Autumn Sammelan 2022
Some 35 people gathered in Winchester at the end of September for an event, designed to be part of Winchester Green Week, entitled ‘The impact of climate change on water harvesting in India’, organised by former trustees Maureen Gupta and Peter McManus. After a delicious lunch prepared by local restaurant Rimjhims, a live Zoom to…
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WaterHarvest Strategy Update and Annual Review 2022
We are delighted to share our new strategy update. This year our work in India continues with a substantial programme in both Rajasthan and Gujarat, working with four different partners. The work continues to include rainwater harvesting in remote, vulnerable communities and land rejuvenation for herders and their families. However, with WaterHarvest now in its 36th year,…
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WaterHarvest Annual Review 2021
We are delighted to share our latest Annual Review, now in a flip book format.
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COVID update
In light of the distressing coronavirus news from India, we wanted to update you on our India office team, our partners and programmes. The India office team and our partners are ok but there are many reports of cases amongst wider family members and reports of cases in nearly all the villages that we work…
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30 years of impact
In 1991, WaterHarvest (then called Wells for India), together with AFPRO, built a small dam in Ramnagar village, south west of Jaipur. The dam was designed by WaterHarvest’s India director Om Prakash Sharma. Prior to the dam being built, the monsoon rains would rush over the hard, dry land with very little filtering down into…
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A huge thank you to Monsoon Accessorize Trust
We are incredibly grateful for the fantastic support that we have received from the Monsoon Accessorize Trust over the last three years. Through their support, we have been able to build over 150 rainwater harvesting structures in Charasada, just south west of Jaipur. As a result, 150 families (around 900 people) will have year round,…
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Stories from the field – Laxmi
Laxmi lives in a very remote region of the Thar desert. She is a member of the meghwal community. The meghwals are part of the scheduled caste category – one of the low, untouchable castes. Laxmi and her family are very poor. All eight family members live in a small (around 50 sq ft) kaccha…
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Monsoon to mouth
When looking at the quality of the water in our rainwater harvesting programmes, we often use the phrase ‘monsoon to mouth’. Quite simply, this means that we look at each step of the process of catching and storing the rain and try to reduce the potential for contamination as much as possible. There are currently…
