I would love to see that video idea!

I would love to visit during the water cup competition and film the process. Right now they have not run that competition since 2019. But I believe that now that Paani has figured out the full cycle of education, from Water Cup to Prosperous Village to Farmer's Cup, they will go back to the Water Cup competition to get more villages beginning the process.

That’s so exciting!❤

Awesome video

@@amillison - wish so. Many good initiatives are derailed due to political interventions in the past.

Because western media will not let go of there colonial mentality and supress every positive news. They would rather do stories of drought rather then people solving there problems

YES! We NEED to do this as a GLOBAL GAMES EVENT!!!😆

First we start here locally. We coordinate doing one in each state. OOOOOOooo! They already have obstacle course racing going on. We could pitch an idea to these companies that host these and organize an event where land is sectioned off by the local government that has unused land and it's the Water Cup Challenge. Boom!

It is already done in Europe, US, and Massively in China. India benefit the most because the land been neglected by colonial power

​@@trinsitseventy years of independence and land degradation

The whole economy needs to be based on these sort of things.

Right? My 1st thought was California, but everywhere is seeing water table issues, soil issues.

@@JasonMullavey And if you know much about the history of California you know that is going to be a hard fought battle. The government already went through this while they set up the California Aquaduct basically cutting off water to tons of farms. A lot of laws were set up making this basically illegal. Even harvesting rainwater here was illegal up until 2012ish

to Andrew: can you suggest organisations in South Africa?

All really!!!

I would very much like to. I am talking to someone about dubbing into Hindi, but now it looks like AI may be able to do that easily. So keep on checking and hopefully this will be done. The first series does have Hindi and Marathi subtitles already

Hey Andrew, I am not a voice artist, but I can dub your videos in Hindi, as you are bringing such quality video which can be so informative for Farmers and people of my country so for me it will be a community service, as I can’t make quality video as you, but at least can make it available for everyone… Again Kudos for doing such amazing work Man..🫡

I think about this same thing too, especially after I learned that the total area dedicated to lawns in the United States is not too dissimilar to the area dedicated to horticultural production. Just gotta deal with those anti-biotic HOAs first 😅

me too

The modern suburbia isn't ever going to be viable but railroad suburbs (towns with transport connections) are cute

But they kill all the cows for their meat. From where will they get the manure?

Banglore is doing already it takes time

Then create CCT In your balcony crazy man 🤣

@@abhishekligade knew some dumb head will respond. No point in telling you anything cos your brains in your head seems to be sucked out by aliens.

no let water learn kanada XD

​@@nimeshbpatel23Issue is while creating an IT hub they messed up with the land trees and nature.

Nice joke

Despite of poverty we are trying hard to preserve nature and biography thank you for your kind words Visit our beautiful country ☺️

I am an Australian - I am also are so proud of what they are doing. A new way of thinking - Huge amounts of effort by the people and great returns from it. The hills are brown but the fields are green.

I'd be tempted to emigrate there tbh.

The news are always so negative, giving the impression that everything is downhill. But in reality, amazing stories like these happen in so many places. There needs to be more reporting of positive things! I'm so proud of these villages.

Greed and entitlement from white people

I am a Maharashtrian, ( same place the video is about ) and stay in a city fed by three large dams. .. meaning water surplus.... But the practices of hoodlums as farmers with large tracts of lands in government positions are running the state dry. They flood their lands with open furrows leading to loss by evaporation and percolation (this isn't by way of rains , which would have been beneficial as it would recharge ground water) Add to them the blasted city dwellers who have such pigheaded people who waste water as a matter of inheritance! ( Having "bought" their rights to use water in toilets the way they want🤬😵‍💫☠️ ! ) The amount of water flushed down toilets in pigeon-hole apartments is enough to aquify several sq km of arabel land! This water is actually drinking water ! Extreme sacrilege. When you wrote "mother nature is so forgiving.." I had tears in my eyes! We got to stop taking nature for granted. Am a grown man who has seen a lot in these past 5 decades of my existence on earth. And we are not being kind to ourselves..at all. Nature has a way to deal, and I shudder at the consequences! Just venting my frustrations! Hope no harm done!

This is not the first time something like this has happened in India. I recall back in the mid-1980s watching an Open University TV series here in the UK called Wheels of Fire about sustainable development initiatives in rural India and the episode that I still remember something of was about the now quite famous Mulkanoor Cooperative and the Milk Production Revolution that occurred in India [which is now the world's largest milk producer]. The rise of anti-Collectivist NeoLiberalism in the West after Thatcher and Reagan has reinforced the hyper-individualist ethos and apotheosis of political economy as the be all and end-all of society in the modern West leading to such unsustainable emphasis on wasteful and polluting growth, housing crises etc. Of course, prior to the British colonial parasitization, deindustrialization , creation of dozens of manmade faines and looting of tens of trillions of dollars in wealth and false propaganda image-making of India as a land of Eternal Poverty, India was famed throughout the Old World for its vast wealth and abundance of produce etc. Indeed, not only was India the world's largest and richest economy just prior to British occupation, economic historian Angus Maddiosn estimated, that India was the world's largest economey for well over 3/4 of the last 2,000 years.

@@sutapasbhattacharya9471 obviously you know what you’re talking about! Very interesting insight - It looks like Vandana Shiva has been a key figure in fighting attempts from the US to ‘hijack’ the Indian agricultural system, what is your take on that?

@@willm5814 Unfortunately YT just deleted my lengthy response and I did not back it up it up - probably due to self-referential info. I will try resending my response to someone else from the USA which I made just before I saw your response to me: Although knoll9812 is largely correct in pinpointing the difference between India and the USA at the moment, there is a shift occurring in the USA and West in general emanating originally from India. That shift is related to the New Age Movement and the cross-over of the new Yoga-based Spirituality without Religion - with its interconnectedness to all things [contra the Judaeo-Christian Theist myths of human separation from Nature etc.] in terms of 'Ecospirituality' etc. Many of the best-connected US researchers into Consciousness-related phenomena and UAP etc. understand that we need a new Science based on the Primacy of Consciousness [i.e. equivalent to the traditional Indian Brahmanism - Harvard professor John Newport wrote that New Age essentially boils down to All is One - the universe is interconnected Consciousness/Energy - or Brahmanism. This new science will reverse the false despiritualization of Nature by modern Science based on the Christian Spirit/Nature dualism and and Galileo's false doctrine of Qualities which rejected conscious experience as supposedly unreal! I know about this because I myself am leading the way with my work synthesizing Science and Spirituality which has excited scholars worldwide [mainly in the USA]. The Western emphasis on hyper-individualism and apotheosis of political economy and GDP growth as the be-all and end-all of society is being challenged already. In the longer term the rise of Asia will accelerate the shift away from Western exemplars to a more sustainable, collectivist approach.

My second attempt seems to respond seems to have worked. I was also pointing out that the new Ecospirituality thought recognizes the need to reverse the Spirit/Nature Dualism of the West in order to address properly the environmental and sustainability crises. The likes of French Orientalist Guy Sorman has argued that, contrary to the Communist Party of China myth that Chinese ideas will become increasingly relevant [whereas China has eradicated it own traditions and become devoured by the West] - as many thinkers of the 20th Century such as Sorman's mentor Roman Rolland, Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee - along with the likes of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (the father of Indian Nationalism) and Nehru argued - we need to blend Western Science with the Spiritual Genius of India. Sorman thinks that the Indian ideas that will dominate the globe will be Gandhian sustainable development ideas and eco-feminism [in the sense of the Feminine within all humans which Hinduism emphasizes]. But others have argued that it will be the rise of Indian Spirituality which will transprm the 21st Century. I am primarily a metaphysician who has synthesized Science and Mysticism and thus can confirm the latter as my work has recently been exciting directors of Consciousness Research Institutes across the USA and India etc. and scholars worldwide. The primary influence of such a synthesis and Universal Spiritual Philosophy based on NonDual Brahmanism and Buddhism is to undermine not only Physicalism-Materialism - but all Theistic Religion which imagines a Divinity separate from Nature and Humanity - opening the way for a Universal Civilization. The overthrow of Materialism with its false Multitudinism (separate particles or atoms) which arose with Capitalism (the Medici sponsored Galileo etc.) and shift to Oneness/interconnectedness will undermine the dharmic societal reflections of such materialism with its Transactionalism - exchanges of energy between distinct entities - as reflected by monetary transactionalsim with the apotheosis of the Capitalist god - the Invisible Hand of teh Free Market. Look up "Undermining the Walls of the Ivory Towers of White Mythology". You can also look up Jason Hickel India for startling stuff about what the British did in India.

Thirst and Hunger are the best top 5 motivators

Yes bharat is redeveloping now ❤❤

The weird part is; Afrika is the wealthiest continent in resources. Afrika is only poor because of corrupt politicians that are bought by global commercial enterprises..

Peoples revolution does not need political initiative. Democracy means that the nation and its government is of the people for the people and by the people... so why give responsibility to the government and forget your responsibilities and a citizen after you vote once in 5 years. Its only after participation of each individual that a noticeable change occurs. May the people of africa realise this soon and cause a revolution in each and every african nation. Wakanda forever

I just returned from Senegal and will be making a series from there

anything like this in nevada? @@amillison

Politicians are a reflection of the masses. It the people who will have to introspect what they are lacking in education. @@Amadon247

Yeah, I will never run out and f villages to visit!

People in India always connected to nature as we pray to every single component of nature rivers animals trees that's why children also take part in these works I think for western countries you should try to connect children to nature emotionally it is the only solution, we are trying our best to preserve nature despite of poverty

Something tells me the Gates Foundation and other lobbyists would find a way to shut down such methods in the US. I'd be willing to test this theory.

@@ronniemcmaster8657 But they can't stop people from using these techniques and technologies for their lands and for their communities

@@bizarreworld2510 They can in the US and any other country to which they have lobbyists. All it takes is a wiggle of the pen to sign a new law labeling the water harvesting feature as stealing from another's water rights of list the change as being harmful to an endangered species in the area.

​@@ronniemcmaster8657 so u need another enlightenment round as always from India but you will have to adopt dharma karma teachings first and u have hare Krishna community find them

​@@ronniemcmaster8657I hate those wicked humans so much

As always, thanks for these great demonstrational videos. The world needs this.

Go for it!

Yes

These kind of systems are well suited for agricultural landscapes where lots of trenches can be dug. Urban areas need different solutions.

Oh you didn't hear Pani foundation then you may be living in a different world .

Thanks John. That means a lot and I'm glad to be of service

Thanks. I have been working at OSU teaching Permaculture since 2009 and I teach the same classes to enrolled students for credit as I offer to the general public. We developed our first online course in 2011 and have been iterating it ever since!

Still it has not reached every corner of the state.

This is very old. They been doing this for last 6-7 years now

@@fun3721 ji bohot acha laga aapka ye mahatvapurna yogdaan. hum kritagya hue

@@adityashukla2317 aapka yogdaan ignorance tha. aapko pata hi nahi desh mein kya ho raha hai. Purana news ko viral ab kar rahe ho

@@fun3721 to mc paper mein chapwaun. Mereko wo cheez pata hai, koi aadmi acha video banaya hai, main comment kr diya, to teri gaand mein kaun si titli aa k baithi ki gyan dene aa gaya mc. tereko pata hai desh mein kya ho ra sab jagah, to chaurahe mein baitha de apni amma ko, sabko jaankari dete rahegi, kya naya h kya purana. Viral karane ka tender to tere dada ji he bhar k aaye the.

I was just watching the same video (by Caspian Report) and I was thinking about how their climate is so similar to Rajasthan where I have seen really incredible water management projects (which I will publish soon). They need to stop thinking about only the large rivers flowing between the countries and start working on replenishing smaller local watersheds and building local groundwater supplies through rainwater harvesting.

Ditto! I wonder if we could get Caspian Report to cover the water revolution of India and suggest this as a feasible option for easing tensions in several regions of conflict that he has reported on recently. His news network has a substantial and dispersed global following.

The farm ponds are added with guppy fish that eat up the mosquito larvae so no new epidemics of malaria or other mosquito borne infections have occured

When there are mosquito outbreaks and spread of disease it means there's an imbalance in nature. The addition of life, rather than the curtailment of it, is the solution - not genetic modifications or spraying of chemicals.

We have fishes that can tackle that.