How to Save a Dying Village | Paani Fdn. India #1

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10 ай бұрын

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to India to film the epic work of the Paani Foundation’s Water Cup Competition and Farmer's Cup Competition. We tour the village of Pimpri Jalsen, in Maharashtra, who competed in the 2019 competition to install the most amount of water harvesting structures in a 45 day period, and competed had farmer's groups compete in the Farmers Cup Competition in 2023. Guided by Paani Foundation’s chief advisor, Dr. Avinash Pol, we visit the work and see the effects of a watershed-scale groundwater restoration project that has dramatically improved the lives, economy, ecology and stability of this village, and experience the feeling of deep stability that comes with a healthy and abundant landscape.
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@PaaniFoundation 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for documenting these stories with so much detail, love and sincerity! We truly appreciate it. The villagers of Pimpri Jalsen have loved this video. :)

@amillison 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for hosting me in Maharashtra and I look forward to more visits to see the ongoing transformation of the landscape and people. It is truly a profound change that you are facilitating.

@notashroom 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for what you do, enabling villagers to save their communities and their productivity. Your work, and the work of all the people who are willing to try something different to protect their lands, is inspirational.

@malumoteki3021 10 ай бұрын

😍😍😍👏👏👏❤❤❤

@sean-or1nc 10 ай бұрын

@@amillison could CCT have negative impact on the integrity of the hillside? Like are there soil types you don't want to do keyline trenches?

@gaswhole 10 ай бұрын

@paanifoundation. please setup a system to alert people to the idea of unintended consequences. Those will need constant groundwork across the geographies you are working in. Even things like the "Miyawaki System" should be looked at critically. The people themselves need to be alert about how the improvements in the ecology seen so far do not segue into unforeseen disasters It would really be the worst thing if after all the effort which has been put in, something as simple as a lack of alertness were to reverse and destroy everything that's been achieved by everyone

@huttonsvalleypermaculture 10 ай бұрын

Not only are they reclaiming water, they are reclaiming their lives!! Seeing this really gives you hope for the future that the lives of many can be turned around. Thanks again Andrew!!

@plurabelle5 10 ай бұрын

Not for the dairy cows and goats whose male babies will be killed, and the female reproductively exploited all their lives. It's sick to see permaculture specialists romanticising this practice of rape, murder, infanticide, commodification and slavery of sentient beings. It's such a waste of water, which could have been used to grow more plants to feed people. Dairy is just disgusting.

@jordimanchon5153 10 ай бұрын

Dr. Avinash Pol should win the Nobel Peace prize and/or the Nobel prize in Economics for this amazing work

@spat2024 10 ай бұрын

Yes, Dr.Avinash pol deserves it...🎉

@avinash4871 10 ай бұрын

also to that teacher Mr. Bhaktraj Garje, who made this happen by his fully dedication. actually he implemented everything and today world see the result.

@Chen-gl9hm 10 ай бұрын

He is Indian so less likely !! Get over this slave mentality. If only west approves then only it is good work . These people don't do work to get prize. They do it to help and uplift the people and society. Keep doing .

@amols101 10 ай бұрын

@@Chen-gl9hmplease don't find reason to hate even for positive comments. Hope you have a nice day!

@grantquinones 10 ай бұрын

They'd rather give it to a 1/2 blck people like Obama. For absolutely nothing.

@LittleKi1 10 ай бұрын

What actually struck me from this video is seeing the villagers harvest. I've been working on a farm and the mundane work can get tedious and lonely. Watching them work in groups in a relaxed way is probably how humanity has gotten hard work done fore millennia. (sigh)

@nsn5564 10 ай бұрын

Start a support group and get people together online and then see if it can extend to in real life! Don't give up!

@willbass2869 8 ай бұрын

I think it depends on scale and ultimate use of the product. Growing, tending and harvesting a single 100 or 500 acre field of cotton, corn or another commodity crop for export would seem kinda disincentivizing because you're "just" doing it for money. However, having even 3 or 4 smaller fields of product for home or village use wouldn't be so alienating. You could still grow an export commodity crop for the essential cash but at a smaller scale or, even better, process the commodity crop by doing even the slightest bit of "value added" enhancement (shell nut crops or press oil seed crops or gin the cotton).

@nomadicwolf6132 10 ай бұрын

Man, California needs a visit from this foundations. That's incredible.

@Honken 10 ай бұрын

This teared me up. Following your Paani videos over the years gives me real hope in a grim, grim world. Thank you Andrew; thank you Paani; thank you to all the people working towards making the world a better place.

@ExperimentalSimplification 10 ай бұрын

This honestly gives me a lot of hope. Also, watershed village boundaries seems great in the purpose of managing local ressources

@heirofslytherin3890 10 ай бұрын

actually every villages in India were designed keeping the drainage pattern and watershed in mind Its just trying to ape the west and blind destruction in the name of development is rendering these villages dry

@sreehariv473 9 ай бұрын

Whole Punjab should adopt this for recharging their groundwater reserves

@kajalsingh9554 10 ай бұрын

Finally, new episodes. With just the Water Cup Competition, this village has replenished the water table, expanded their crops and growing season, reversed city migration, and most likely reduced if not eliminated malnutrition. Amazing.

@melissasueferrin3409 10 ай бұрын

Nice! thank you so much for producing the videos so people around the world can benefit.

@DD-ok2pt 10 ай бұрын

This is truly phenomenal! What is CRAZY is that they ultimately turned around their environment and their access to prosperity in just 5 years. The key: WORKING TOGETHER!!! Can't wait for more episodes!!!

@johnbanach3875 10 ай бұрын

These promise to be great, inspiring, and uplifting stories. I hope Andrew will also share in one episode the obstacles many villagers have to deal with in India. He's alluded to the fact that he found some huge difficulties there as well.

@suganth72 7 ай бұрын

the important this no gvt or politicians cared to help these people (may be that is why they became successful..hope no politician spoils it)

@pond_people 10 ай бұрын

We have followed your advice, with these things. We have made 3 large bodies of water to catch rainwater and we never run out of water now. Thankyou

@ronniemcmaster8657 10 ай бұрын

I wish we could be doing this to the high deserts in the US. We could be growing so much more food, permaculturally. Thank you for another great, motivating video.

@RareEarthSeries 9 ай бұрын

You make such great videos

@amillison 9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I just checked out your channel. Amazing work!

@zaqs1970 10 ай бұрын

the most important thing about Paani Foundation is that whatever they do, they do with EXTENSIVE research about that particular topic. and consults the BEST in that field. when Satyajeet Bhatkal was wandering around these drought prone areas of Maharashtra he came to know about the work of Dr. Avinash Pol and his friends at ajinkya tara fort, and how they do the SHRAMDAAN (voluntary labour), they loved the idea and implemented it in water cup. NOW when they are running farmers cup they did the same EXTENSIVE research and came to know about Sahyadri Farms where many farmers came together and formed the company. Paani Foundation implemented that idea and now they are giving training to farmers and convince them to come together and do the farming, if the farmers comes together there are multiple benefits.

@huehue5286 10 ай бұрын

Here in Brazil, in the northeast regions in which rains more than most of the semi-arid regions of India, lots of people live in miserable communities because they don't take action like these villages do and wait the govt solve their problems. One farmer did it by himself and had a farm that was the only one in the region with water all year around and people instead o copying his example just got jealous and ostracized the guy. It's nice to see how the mentality in India is different, I can see they have a great chance of improving.

@MartinaSchoppe 10 ай бұрын

These Videos about India's Water Revolution should run in Prime Time TV EVERYWHERE! Everything about the videos is awesome. The Water cup and the Farmers Cup are "Competitions" but every single participant is a winner, because all their lives get better. And that by working together, not against each other - on a big scale. There is sooooo much that farmers around the world should learn and implement. And the speed at which the changes are apparent is just breathtaking. I watched a documentary about water problems around the world just recently - they where nicely documenting all the problems but almost no solutions where mentioned...

@marlan5470 10 ай бұрын

This is where anyone of any age, anywhere, needs to disregard the doom brigade and support more of the Practical initiatives like the ones in India, and help make them a reality in the distressed areas of their own countries. Southern Europe is turning into desert because of poor land management. It has lasted a couple of thousand years since the implementation of the Roman Empire mono-crop farming, but another 50 years with current tech and it's dead.

@MartinaSchoppe 10 ай бұрын

@@marlan5470 YES! I shared it on FB for that reason. I also shared the link on several videos of "water" documentaries like the ones I mentioned above. Those are YT-Channels of TV stations - so hopefully they take notice and check those projects out and get inspired to make documentaries about them for TV! Those and other "permacultur-y" projects need to get into the public. FAST!

@spat2024 10 ай бұрын

This all happened because of educating farmers all about there problems and how they face these problems unitedly ...thanks to paani foundation and great Dr.poL for their dedication ❤

@cyrusp100 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Andrew for this series and for showing the great news coming from my country India. Your head wobbles are starting to look very natural and Indian :)

@gouravdutta8009 10 ай бұрын

Bravo 👏 whenever I went to maharashtra in summer, it's not even in my wildest dreams to see this much greenery

@Kathakathan11 10 ай бұрын

Which part of MH ?

@itsjustmetomc4848 10 ай бұрын

This is definitely and amazing video! We should be practicing the same principals here in the Arizona desert!

@martingardens 10 ай бұрын

It was practiced in your state... in the Great Depression. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z69deNdlq9SppnU.html

@claytonleal7947 10 ай бұрын

Love this, cant wait for the next one

@cholst1 10 ай бұрын

Finally! Been waiting for the new series! Most important show on earth! This project is also the perfect example of how if you want something like this to succeed on a large scale. It has to be somewhat bottom up, where the people who work the land are the "stakeholders". Not some giant corporation coming in, planting a ton of trees and leaving again.

@Tugedhel 10 ай бұрын

Thank you Professor Millison for gathering and disseminating this information. This is probably the most epic example of "slow, spread & sink" of this generation. People learn in bites and it is best if it is wrapped in a word picture or visual. Your presentation of this is all of that. Someone said Pol should be put up for a Nobel prize... can you throw his name in the hat?

@mountaingardening 10 ай бұрын

So cool to see what India is doing to retain water. What a great idea to do a competition. Excited to see the rest of the series! Thank you!

@kathleenmead9259 10 ай бұрын

love and peace to you all

@2Sugarbears 10 ай бұрын

This is so uplifting, thank you for this.

@The.FishHead 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff

@adam91jr 10 ай бұрын

EPIC

@pongop 10 ай бұрын

Great video! India is amazing! It's beautiful to see the progress. What an example and inspiration for the rest of the world!

@willbass2869 8 ай бұрын

Do NOT travel there as a western woman, single or small group. Take an armed guard. India has REALLY serious problems surrounding women, their next door neighbor is even worse

@damian9070 10 ай бұрын

There really isn’t a similar large scale project to this, it solves all issues at once; equality, growth, economy, climate change. Once these areas grow a lot, you could do offgrid solar arrays with underground battery storages to keep them at constant temperature. Lots of potential

@amillison 10 ай бұрын

In future videos I will show you another project at a similar scale

@markus_selloi 10 ай бұрын

The people in Africa are doing incredible work, just because one doesn't hear about it doesn't mean it doesn't happen :)

@MahiMahi-yu5jo 10 ай бұрын

@@markus_selloiGlad to hear that too. Would love to know the name Or areas where the projects are done

@NoirMorter 10 ай бұрын

The closest I can come up with are the individual towns in Africa trying to reclaim the Sarah. But even those are nothing compared to this.

@michaelsantaii2404 10 ай бұрын

oh my god i needed this

@Adv_Swapnil_Kolhe 10 ай бұрын

Then, we invite you to our village Pemgiri in Maharshtra, India.

@michaelsantaii2404 10 ай бұрын

@@Adv_Swapnil_Kolhe i am more than grateful brother

@curiouscatlabincgetsworrie7755 10 ай бұрын

Heart warming! And "competition" ... even participants far from the top were essentially winners, so ... :D What can we do to spread this?

@zaqs1970 10 ай бұрын

share the video

@obviousbuthidden 9 ай бұрын

Water is the Transparent Gold

@PlantGuild 10 ай бұрын

What an awesome project. Actually, at this point it’s not even a project, but an ecosystem lifestyle. Very cool!

@rohitsarfare630 10 ай бұрын

This is one of d best thing happened in india especially Maharashtra. Great example 👌 Hats off Paani foundation n team 🙏🙏🙏

@secondnuts 7 ай бұрын

Makes me cry tears of joy

@Talz1803 10 ай бұрын

I want to see this kind of large scale project happen in America

@vundyalaphanisheakerreddy2055 10 ай бұрын

SUPER

@JohnDoe-tx 10 ай бұрын

Bravo

@TheKansen 10 ай бұрын

Great video! I wish you had taken a full shot of the huge banyan tree you were sitting under. Many villages have these huge banyan trees in the center of the village. They serve as the gathering / meeting place for the village.

@amillison 10 ай бұрын

Video number 3 we have awesome footage of the second largest banyan tree in India in the village of Pemgiri. Stay tuned!

@Tugedhel 10 ай бұрын

I've been watching these since the Paani videos first hit KZfaq. I agree with Jori Manchon... Dr. Avanash Pol should be put up for a Nobel prize. He really thought about the big picture when he went to Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao and the team behind the Satyamev Jayate show. I don't remember how it was spoken about over the years but I believe he went to Khan and Khan said, "lets do it." Pol understands leadership and what it takes to get hopeless people working together. It took a really big trusted name to make a really big deal about a sure thing... making their lives better by working together in the sun long and hard for a little bit each year (OK... working A LOT). How do you change the world... one heart at a time. How do those hearts change the world, by banding together and getting stuff done. :-)

@vinaychittora 10 ай бұрын

Finally. I have been waiting for this series since a long time. Thank you. Lots of love!

@grantquinones 10 ай бұрын

Let's get a toilet competition

@Maymay_chor69 9 ай бұрын

@@grantquinones man it's going on .. according to a recent servey 95% household have acess to toilet

@smitkadu5504 10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@angel21991 10 ай бұрын

Just love how a landscape can transform when water finds its way into the soil and recharges the ground water ! Something wonderful about this is how the nutrition profile of the local community would have improved as a result of this. The miyawaki forest was just a treat to watch ! It would be amazing if such small Miyawaki forests would be planted at the base of the hills as the water makes its way into the valley ! Given the terrain wooded grassland might be the appropriate foothill ecosystem . Thank you Andrew for this update. Cant wait for the upcoming videos ! :)

@aleenaprasannan2146 10 ай бұрын

I have gone for some trekking in some forests areas in this terrain, and I think you are right. The foothills were wooded and the slopes were covered in grass and it becomes wooded again once you reach the top. I'm guessing the grasses at the foot hill probably was a casuality of overgrazing. If you are interested in Miyawaki forests in India, check out the channel Crowd Foresting. They build miyawaki forests in urban areas in Southern part of India.

@TheEmbrio 10 ай бұрын

Those dense forest sure seem like they would be great silt qnd sediment traps, slowing water flows in exceptional events. Windbreaks too, and a "circle" of biodiversity and nature around ’useful’ land. Deep hedges could be a similar pattern, they are great ecological corridors.

@kaustabg 10 ай бұрын

Amazing Andrew and team- what a beautiful video, so much hope and belief :) God bless you. Waiting to see more!

@NirrumTheMad 10 ай бұрын

good, a step toward optimizing humanity

@CaptainManic2010 10 ай бұрын

I love your work so much. It delivers so much Hope. I can imagine a world filled with food and water security.....drought proof lands....self sustainability in general. Thank you very much.

@bryanthegoat9593 10 ай бұрын

WERE BACKK! the real movement

@borystsolin 10 ай бұрын

This is just incredible, this community just lives in the future.

@Minder666 10 ай бұрын

This is so amazing to see!

@lornedauterman 10 ай бұрын

Loves these videos. Glad they are back.

@kattsragz320 10 ай бұрын

Great work

@devdeuce93 10 ай бұрын

Loved seeing the Miyawaki forest that the village created. That place was thriving

@GaiaCarney 2 ай бұрын

Thank You @amillison 🙏🏾 I am so impressed by the ingenuity and resulting transformations to the land! If only this could happen in Klamath Falls, Oregon . . .

@johnsmiff8328 10 ай бұрын

Let's GO!!! Nothing more exciting than responsible water management

@nsn5564 10 ай бұрын

Loved this comment!

@joyona7430 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. May "G-d in All That IS" continue to bless you and all who work together to bless all humanity through out the world, through all our efforts, to restore and enhance the blessings of our beloved mother earth for the benefit of all. We really are all in this together : )! All of humanity is here on earth to learn to have loving dominion over ourselves and to learn how honor and co-operate and bless our selves and our beloved life giving mother earth. We really are all in this together. ❤ 🙏.

@truthseeker4504 10 ай бұрын

From recycling kings to water conservation emperors, so inspiring India and yet in the USA water wells in AZ are being drained dry to grow alfalfa for the Saudis 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♂️

@ooooneeee 10 ай бұрын

This is truly the avantgarde. Every country can learn from this, adapt the knowledge and harvest rainwater like this. Bottoms up, farmers working with the best scientists. This warms my cold, cynical heart.

@RR-hl8hq 10 ай бұрын

Lovely

@nishant4262 10 ай бұрын

I appreciate your work Andrew!😊 Note: 1 crore = 10 million 1 Lakh = 100,000

@suhaspatil3357 10 ай бұрын

Great

@JasonEntine 10 ай бұрын

Amazing!!! Thank you for this series.

@kenyon2598 10 ай бұрын

Ahhh, LOVE IT! Thank you for the updates. This is super inspiring and gives me hope. The solutions are out there, the knowledge is out there and it’s beautiful seeing it happen.

@emmavik-fredriksson640 10 ай бұрын

This makes me so happy! What an wonderful, positive movement. And its all because of water management in the proper way.

@XMrPersonX 10 ай бұрын

these videos bring great hope to me

@jonschaffer4410 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing always like the update videos!!

@phifi7023 10 ай бұрын

ThAnk you

@barnabyvonrudal1 10 ай бұрын

Great diagrams! They really help to understand the water features and how they work together.

@Chr.U.Cas2216 7 ай бұрын

👍👌👏 Oh WOW, simply fantastic!

@benjaminklenner4310 10 ай бұрын

This is so exciting to see! Thanks Andrew for sharing it with the world

@supriyajoshi1347 4 күн бұрын

Thanks so much Andrew for making these videos...no media is covering this iin this detail. Keep up the great work...best wishes for your future endevourss🎉❤

@CplusO2 10 ай бұрын

So inspiring, thank you to everyone involved in this project and in showing it to us.

@draganastamenkovikj307 10 ай бұрын

What a change. Amazing project.

@ryanw5525 10 ай бұрын

Amazing work by everyone involved 💚

@vijaykumbhar5148 10 ай бұрын

Amezing work by Dr Avinash pol sir... Heartily congratulations & best wishes to future work & planing

@prathameshdharme975 10 ай бұрын

This is a well done video the host wasn't looking down on the village guys like most documentary guys do . This is an example of good documentary unlike mainstream media just criticising indian government and india for everything under the roof

@towardsai832 10 ай бұрын

Why can't they criticize the government?. The Govt didn't play any role here while it should.

@bonjovi1354 10 ай бұрын

@@towardsai832it's actually difficult because govt is nothing but people and people r corrupted .. it's like banning cigrate. And alcohol .. but that can't b done ..

@bytheway4819 10 ай бұрын

Government didn't do anything in this revolution....farmers make it up on their own

@prathameshdharme975 10 ай бұрын

@@towardsai832 I am not against criticism, what I hate is spreading false narratives and just criticising someone because you don't like them

@prathameshdharme975 10 ай бұрын

@@towardsai832 it's partially true When the gov. Of Maharashtra got to know about this they to got involved I don't know about this particular case but in my local village the gov was pretty damm active

@earthnhand 10 ай бұрын

This video brought tears of joy. More water! Thank you!

@amillison 10 ай бұрын

So glad! Thank you for watching. :)

@stonerock5441 10 ай бұрын

Nice 👍

@permanick 10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this new series. Been patiently waiting for the release. These videos are so crucial to show people what is possible when we focus on the most important tool we have available: Water! Just imagine what would be possible on a global scale if just a fraction of the money used for carbon projects like direct air capture was used to restore water cycles instead...

@cedriccbass-jp8ky 10 ай бұрын

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How to Save a Dying Village | Paani Fdn. India #1

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