मीडिया में MARVI
मैदान, प्रयोगशाला और गाँव की कहानियाँ।
नए MARVI मीडिया संग्रह से चयनित पत्रकारिता और परियोजना कवरेज।
How a grassroots revolution is safeguarding groundwater, one well at a time
A profile of Professor Basant Maheshwari and MARVI’s journey from rural India to a wider participatory model.
Read story ACIAR · 17 Sep 2024People power delivers groundwater solutions in India
How Bhujal Jankaars, recharge, MyWell and community decisions became a practical approach.
Read story Eos · 16 Feb 2022Satellite and on-the-ground data help monitor groundwater in India
Village observations and satellite information combine to support more efficient water use.
Read story India Water Portal · 23 Feb 2021Securing groundwater through village communities
An introduction to participatory monitoring, recharge, cooperatives and the MARVI approach.
Read story Mongabay India · 29 Jun 2020Bridging the gender gap through groundwater monitoring
Women Bhujal Jankaars and the social barriers shaping participation in local water decisions.
Read story Australian Water Partnership · 01 Nov 2022People managing the invisible
Farmers use measurements, recharge pits and MyWell to protect wells and inform local choices.
Read story ACIAR · 21 May 2019Revolutionary app reveals the resource underground
MyWell helps communities record and view groundwater, rainfall, quality and check-dam levels.
Read story ACIAR · 28 Aug 2019App helps Indian farmers crowdsource water during drought
Locally generated data helps communities monitor wells used for irrigation and drinking water.
Read story ACIAR · Field storyWater management from the ground up
The central role of trained village volunteers in measuring and communicating groundwater.
Read story Government of India · 14 Oct 2020India–Australia cooperation for sustainable groundwater
A memorandum supporting groundwater training, education, research and practical action.
Read story December 2023Measuring and Managing an Invisible Resource: Putting research in the hands of village communities leads to coordinated and lasting improvements in groundwater management.
In many regions of India and other countries, groundwater is the main water source for local communities, but years of overuse have critically depleted groundwater reserves, with dire implications for water and food security. There are no easy solutions, but as Distinguished Professor Basant Maheshwari’s team has shown, an alternative ‘transdisciplinary’ approach that brings together different disciplines and includes local villagers as research participants has opened a new pathway to solving this complex problem.
Read story Australian Water Partnership · 14 May 2024A participatory framework for Southeast Asia
How MARVI’s community monitoring and collaborative data model may transfer across the region.
Read story India Water Portal · 16 May 2020Developing a village groundwater-monitoring programme
The MARVI approach, Bhujal Jankaars and resources in English, Hindi and Gujarati.
Read story