Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Bhujal Waari- The Water Movement, we are running in Chalisgaon taluka of Maharashtra for the last 5 years. This movement we have started with the aim of water literacy among the villagers and increase the groundwater level. The Bhujal Abhiyan movement is a sustainable water movement because there is 100% participation of villagers in the water conservation work. We are working in the cluster of 34 villages with the aim of making drought-free and environment-friendly villages in the coming 5 years. The technique of our work- 1. Capacity building of water committee through Training and workshops- First we take the gram sabha in the villages and form a Bhujal Paani Samiti (Water committee).In each committee there are 6 to 10 people (men/women), we called this volunteer Bhujal Warkari. One main member of the committee we called it “Bhujal Dindi Pramukh” We conduct water literacy sessions and awareness for the Bhujal Paani samiti and make them educate to understand the importance of water. Once all the training of the Bhujal water committee is done, under the guidance of a geologist, we understand the watershed. 2. Understanding the watershed of the village through field visits - Under the guidance of a Geologist, the Bhujal water committee does a field survey to understand the watershed of the village, also for data collection and rough budget estimate. 3. Data Collection-Actual detailed survey for data collection with the help of Geologists and technical person guidance. Mapping and analysis of data collected for water budgeting and planning future works. 4. Water budget and Water Security Plan presentation -Once all the plan is ready, Bhujal Dindi Pramukh and Bhujal Paani samiti take a village meeting and present the water budget and water security plan to villagers. Here all the villagers finalized the Implementation of conservation structures. 5. Actual Interventions -From CSR/NGO we provide excavator machines and villagers take the responsibility for fuel and we provide all the technical guidance to them Impact of our work – We have rejuvenated 11 lakes and created other water conservation work which creates a 5000 million water storage capacity and we are improving the quality of soil by doing compartment bunding work in the villages. 1. People participation is increasing in the 34 villages where we are working. 2. In 34 villages around 50000 farmers are benefiting from water conservation work. 3. Farmers' income per year per acre has been increased to Rs. 10000 to Rs. 20000 4. Milk animal count is increasing in the villages so the milk produced capacity is increasing. 5. Crop management planning is coming into a reality. We are conducting to promote Horticulture farming. 6. Nurturing indigenous 25000 trees in 4 villages. 7. Animals are getting water in the lakes- when there is no water in 5 km radius- under our concept “1 Village 1 Village”, animals will surely gets the water to drink. 8. In 11 villages we have almost solved the drinking water problem to 60 %.