MARVIManaging Aquifer Recharge & Sustaining Groundwater Use through Village level intervention

Impact & scaling

What MARVI has achieved

How can a village understand an invisible shared resource—and decide its future together?

How can a village understand an invisible shared resource—and decide its future together?
2012The MARVI field journey began
630Bhujal Jankaars trained
105Number of female BJs trained
505Number of male Bjs trained
2908Number of wells monitored

MARVI in the news

Selected journalism and project coverage from the new MARVI media archive.

The Brilliant · 02 Jul 2024How a grassroots revolution is safeguarding groundwater, one well at a timeA profile of Professor Basant Maheshwari and MARVI’s journey from rural India to a wider participatory model.ACIAR · 17 Sep 2024People power delivers groundwater solutions in IndiaHow Bhujal Jankaars, recharge, MyWell and community decisions became a practical approach.Government of India · 14 Oct 2020India–Australia cooperation for sustainable groundwaterA memorandum supporting groundwater training, education, research and practical action.
A researcher and a farmer taking a field measurementPublicationsBrochures and books from the project — free to download in English, Hindi and Gujarati. Grouped by kind; filter or search to narrow the list.