Finally, somebody is talking about the major fault in the major scheme that's there in the entire country. Today MGNEREGA have the potential to change India's water tables yet nobody is actually concentrating on it. There are real examples in Maharashtra and many other states where MGNEREGA have brought wonderful results yet the other states are not interested in following that. We have a very huge village-level water neural network in-bult for ages, which we are damaging right now. Hopefully, videos like these should reach more people and governments and we as a country show the world how we can solve every problem on this MOTHER EARTH. Thanks for making this video.

As someone who loves to study Nature and environment this program is like heaven. Found it recently and have fallen in love with it. Hope your good work will reach more people and bring a long lasting impact on earth

Always waiting for the show. This is an incredible trail of information and wisdom. We don't need to rediscover the wheel. We can just put the thousands of years old collective wisdom on the ground to make substantial difference. Keep doing more such shows on contemporary and extremely pressing topics. 🙌

💥💥💥It is sad that awareness comes after when all water sources ends ♥️👍

💎🏆 Great insightful & fruitful video 🏆💎

Great job down to earth ❤❤❤

Wow. Passionate.

Thank u ma'am ❤❤ Very good

What a great show, what a beautiful ending.... Thank you Sunita Narain ma'am. Looking forward to more content from you, for our edification.

Thank you for this!

Wonderful insight❤

Intresting information Sunita.

Mam, people like you must be in the parliament. Unfortunately our parliamentary democracy has failed to recognise people like you into parliament 😢

she was very regular at ndtv , she makes so much sense , wish our political class take note , it will do good to all

The video in the end! ❤😭

Hello mam, I am from delhi and it is very sad to tell you that our soil is bleeding. In our area a white firm layer deposited on soil during hot season, locally it is called reh, In books writing a capilliary action which bring salt to the surface of soil, I wonder how our humus enriched soil had deposite of Aluvium at one point in history completely devasted today. After researching a while I came to know about green revolution and growing water feeding crops like paddy and wheat resulted depletion of ground water and because of late and impotent monsoon replenishment isn't possible. Also use of urea fertilizer adds to worsen our situation. What possibly I can do now. i am just 12th pass don't have any means for my subsistence. real state people said we gave crore for your small land and you just need nothing in life this amount incur decent interest on capital , some says that join gangster group which are very active in our area people needs drugs not veggie in gated society. How I can sell my mother am indebted her alligiance. The inexorable question came again and again who is responisble, Is govt responsible forcing green revolution to us , Is this capitalistic society who are only dependent on materialistic needs, Is the god and nature who turn around or it is me only who take agriculture as my living. Nothing works i use tonnes of organic matter but nothing works. The plight is If we came to Singhu border people call us terrorist and uneducated though we studied less bookish content that doesn't mean we know nothing. You are doing great madam ji I see your content very insightful.

thank you

Good concise information.

I just read a book on water, by Erica Gies named " Water always wins ", in which she talks about how water adminstration has become centralised and consequently expensive rather than then community ownered, and cheap.Now the dominant practice is to construct big dams for irrigation not local harvests. This has led to disastrous results.

Simple yet golden words: 1)Monsoon is our true finance minister 2)Nature is about soft power 3)We need more than drought relief, we need relief against drought.

*Thanks Down to Earth 🌎*

@Down TO Earth Pls also do a episode on Biodiversity loss and its impacts

Thanks Sunita ji. This time would be ideal for discussion on (imho) - * Groundwater recharge on account of rains - and how denuded green cover even in urban spaces diminishes it * The major instances of rainwater harvesting in India * The role of waterbodies in urban areas at least. On paper the Delhi government had this plan of several manmade lakes. What happened, besides being the butt of jokes? * The design of our cities, increased concretisation, malba etc and clueless municipal bodies * How urgent is the water situation? I was in Kerala recently and people were complaining of a sub-normal monsoon...

Thankyou very much for very informative videos D2E, Indian government are try to consider these information for manage water crisis and drainage problem t

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Very inspiring episode

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amrit sarovar of uttar pradesh..now dying .government spent 1lakh above but no water in these areas..government needs to pay attension to it

अच्छा एवं सही ज्ञान दिया| लेकिन सामाजिक विचारधारा का एक तथ्य अत्यंत प्रभावशाली है, "वर्तमान के अधिकांश मनुष्य गलत और अनुचित कार्य करके ही जीवन के सबक सीखते हैं"| कुछ चंद ही मनुष्य ऐसे होते हैं जिन्हे सत्य का बोध जीवन में काफी पहले हो जाता है|

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Had grown up reading Down to Earth mag❤

Action on that

Dying wisdom book is not available online on Amazon or Flipkart ?

Rural India has lot of ways to recharge ground water but the urban India has no way to recharge ground water even they don't have good drainage system in the future millions of urban residents will be affected by floods.

Great video. I think the math adds up to 1 mn litres of water, not 100 mn (at 3:10). Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers!

Very much required in urban/city area where land is concrete covered .Can you suggest some law.

Hello Comrade

Mnerga has a flaw …and what is that ? It focuses on jobs and not proper education ? Every land is dynamic in nature and it requires to be handled accordingly. Mnerga needs the dying wisdom.

Iets recharge

Control population follow antinatalisam and minimilisam

हिन्दी से परहेज़

Madam you are not taking into consideration the financial incentives for water. water is given for so cheap .

This whole stupid idea of capturing rainwater only works in few drought areas & metros. Every state is constructing huge dams and not releasing water into the seas...if this continues, coastal area will be flooded with sea water which is salt water and we will lose 1000s of kilometers of fertile Land. All developed countries even in water crisis release rainwater into the ocean they do not capture. The problem we have is over population. India's population should have never crossed 50 crores. Less Population ---> More underground water --->Food in droughts----> more funds for development of country rather than giving free policies to people----> let's population no encroachment of rivers in cities... All problems can be solved just by controlling population with India never did this and we will see millions hunger deaths both humans and cattle.

Too much lecture. useless, you really think that we dont understand. its all about money if you subsidise water it will loose its value, increase cost of water supply .

Thry fid not hsve iits or iims to midlead them?

Vould ee trsnsfet water ftlm estuaries to desert lands snd oprevent trunoffs?

At least 10-25percent of all land for rain water storage? On war fioying carried out by army

Wr are yo improve bangalore in priority?

Learn from Persians?