Sustainable Water - A Lesson From India

Anupam Mishra travels across water-challenged India studying rainwater harvesting methods and learning from the people behind them. He presents his findings to NGOs, development agencies and environmental groups, pulling from centuries of indigenous wisdom that has found water for drinking and irrigation even in extremely arid landscapes through wells, filter ponds and other catchment systems.
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"In [him] lives a spirit, of quiet service, that once existed freely in our politics and our activism, a spirit that has been completely excised from one sphere and remains gravely threatened in the other."
Ramachandra Guha, in The Hindu
http://www.ted.com/speakers/anupam_mishra.html

I hope you will enjoy Anupam Mishra's TED talk on sustainable water as much as I did.
An interactive transcript is available on the TED site.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anupam_mishra_the_ancient_ingenuity_of_water_ha...