JalTara: Solving the global water crisis with a scalable, cost-effective approach

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The UN describes climate change as “primarily a water crisis“.

Extreme weather is causing both severe floods and droughts – in fact, since 2000 there has been a 29% increase in droughts and a 134% increase in floods worldwide. With 50% of humanity under risk of water stress by 2030, we are running out of time to solve this crisis.

A problem of this magnitude and urgency requires an equally bold and rapid approach to solve it.
And this is the vision behind Save Groundwater Foundation’s low-cost, nation-scale JalTara approach. To solve the global flood & drought water crisis by 2050.

We believe that large-scale groundwater recharge is the most effective way to solve this global flood/drought crisis – since underground aquifer reserves worldwide have 100 times the capacity compared to surface freshwater storage like lakes, rivers and reservoirs. (optional)

Over the last three years, the scalable JalTara approach solved the water crisis in 125 water-stressed villages in India – by digging 65 thousand small recharge pits; one in every acre of arable land. These low cost and simple pits transformed dense earth to absorbent sponge – resulting in widespread replenishment of underground aquifers.

These projects have validated our approach – improved groundwater tables have more than doubled farmer incomes, increased crop yields and virtually eliminated crop spoilage from floods
Our big goal is to dig 2 billion recharge pits across the globe by 2050 and replenish an estimated one quadrillion liters of groundwater every year.

India is one of the worst impacted regions. In India, our goal is to solve the water crisis in 10 years – to dig 50 million JalTara recharge pits and improve the lives of 150 million villagers.

Our India plan for next year is to dig 500,000 recharge pits across 1000 drought-hit villages – and to increase groundwater by over 300 billion liters.

With an investment of $6000 dollars, the scalable and cost effective JalTara approach can help an entire village overcome its water crisis – as well as bring about long term, multi-generational impact to rural communities.

Please invest in JalTara and improve farmer lives.

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00:00 - Climate change is primarily a water crisis
00:11 - Extreme weather causing both floods and droughts
00:28 - Vision to solve the global crisis in a decade
00:44 - Groundwater replenishment is the solution to the water crisis
01:08 - How JalTara solved the water crisis in 92 villages
01:49 - What farmers say about the benefits of JalTara
02:16 - 10 year, 2 billion JalTara pits global goal
02:31 - Solving the India water crisis with 50 million JalTara pits
02:44 - Support next year's 500 thousand pit project