The Kathir Times has published my new article as titled above, the following are the concluding paras of the article:
"Though, India’s Niti Aayog’s Reports on Water Management has been strongly emphasizing the need for local community-led intervention for rejuvenation of bodies and creating a new one wherever feasible. However, it did not spell out the roadmap for financing and enabling the local community-led organizations across the country.
During the last few years, there have been several community-based interventions for rejuvenation of water bodies in Tamil Nadu which have helped to increase access to water for not just drinking but also for irrigation and other utilities. The efforts of Siruthuli, an NGO working last 16 years in reviving several water bodies in the Coimbatore district. Similarly, the efforts of the Olirum Erodu Foundation and Erodai Trust in Erode district, Environmentalist Foundation of India in Chennai, People’s Forum in Salem, Vettri Trust in Tiruppur and more recently the Olirum Krishnagiri Foundation in Krishnagiri have all done tremendous works to improve the groundwater table.
Moreover, the Madurai based Dhan Foundation has been pioneering the water management systems covering 2000 tanks and104 watersheds across all south Indian states in the last two decades. The community-based approaches are more sustainable for improving access to water for all segments by improving the groundwater table. Further, these models of community-led rejuvenation of water bodies were effectively stakeholders driven involving the local community, farmers, philanthropists and close coordination with government officials. We need to scale up these models across the States and country to effectively implement the water conservation intervention to improve the groundwater tables."
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