Best of 2017: Villagers get together to push desert back
The Watershed Organisation Trust has been awarded the prestigious 2017 UN Land for Life award for helping hundreds of villages to harvest and manage water in the drier regions of India
Wankute, a village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, was teetering on the edge of disaster in 2003, riddled with poverty and rife with politics. The landscape around the village was bleak…Read More