As a maharashtrian this make me really proud of my fellow maharashtrians. This feels unbelievable how we can tackle such problems just coming together.

@nv3796

10 ай бұрын

What was the joke in Marathi language by the good doctor?

@unhippy1

10 ай бұрын

i thought that resulted in more maharashtrians?

@yashwantkulkarni4818

8 ай бұрын

@@nv3796 sorry not audible enough to understand

@raincoast9010

Ай бұрын

This is so wonderful, not only the water which is amazing but the farming practices.

What a brilliant contest with such encouraging results. If only other countries, such as the US, would get behind regenerative improvements like this.

@pattibrown1809

10 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! I'd love to start this in Southern Arizona!

@crashwelder5337

10 ай бұрын

Good luck the United States is owned by corporation. They do not care about the people the future the environment resources other than money

@MrJmreal6688

10 ай бұрын

@@pattibrown1809 It takes normal people to start. Look forward to seeing your progress!

@swatisharma9006

10 ай бұрын

@@pattibrown1809if you succeed in doing so, please share how? I don’t see a direction on how can we bring city residents and officials together to do something of this sort.

@SamuHell782

10 ай бұрын

I believe the Work Projects Administration did some water catchment programs. But in America every generation has their parrot call version of "CoMmUnIsM" that prevents common sense practices of benefiting ALL Americans.

I have been looking forward to this series all year! Whenever I meet someone from India, I always mention the work the Paani foundation is doing. The project seems to be evolving quickly and will serve as a great template for other countries wanting to better manage their water/food resources.

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

Thanks sweetie.much :-)

Andrew, you need to move to India and upload a video every week!! 🙂 I can't get enough of these videos. Thank you for showing the world what can be done on a small scale but that has a huge impact on the environment and the life of countless people.

@one_field

9 ай бұрын

But we need him here in the US, too! How about shared custody and he can post videos from both countries every month? ❤

This is Co-operativism at its most pure. I have such admiration for these people, for the Panni Foundation and Dr Pol in particular. He deserves internation recognition for he work. Climate change isn't just about carbon dioxide being released. These villages are putting tons and tons of carbon back into their soils.

This is phenomenal... We need to do this HERE in the US. I know it's a totally different culture. However, there are small farming communities that have disappeared here, First Nations reservations that are food deserts, etc. We need to decentralize food production and rehydrate our landscapes here...desperately. California, Oregon, Washington, the west, the whole country can learn from the Indian people's work!

@DavidRodriguez-gl5pn

8 ай бұрын

Florida too! We have the best spring system in the world and it’s currently controlled by corporate greed

@Scepticalasfuk

5 ай бұрын

Try contacting some dry-land reservations, just tell them to watch all the videos. Some of the projects are pretty easy.

Andrew, Thank you for this follow-up! Long-term results count... I am full of gratitude for all of you villagers, thank you from my heart! As I teach this to my students at a university in Germany (many students from India!), this is what brings tears into their eyes, too. Many have found their life purpose in restoration. Big NGOs, companies, universities and politicians seem to prefer problem-profiting; solving them is bad for funding, power and some inflated egos. Ralf Otterpohl, Author of "Garden Communities - Living diversely, Producing locally, together with nature and neighbors"

@phornthip1991

10 ай бұрын

Wenn man weiß wer die NGO's finanziert, dann weiß man was deren Ziel ist Die Bauern abhängig von der Agrarindustrie, mit ihren Herbiciden, Insektiziden, Pestiziden GMO Saatgut zu machen. Ein Teufelkreis.

@LectivalJamdade

9 ай бұрын

There is a concept in Maharashtra india from millenia long before about "self sufficient villages". And the whole structure of a village, nation(kingdom) and culture is based on this self sufficiency. In village trade was happening without money as they would trade something for something. There were 18 types of professions in a village like lohar(smithy), kumbhar(pottery), these professions run in family and they mastered their craft(cause their whole lives were centered around those professions). So after the British rule they introduced new concepts. And these kind of structures collapsed. So when you visit India, you will find cities and villages having totally different environment, mentality, cultural differences. Any nation or society is strong when their base is strong, at the base level they don't have to rely on outside influence to survive.

People of India found wisdom in ancestors who understood the land they lived, without technology.

@raiideas

8 ай бұрын

The technology they focused on was self sustenance - where you recycle everything within the village, the cow dung, the worms, the ducks, everything. Villagers usually cook with cow dung cakes. Eww, but sustainable.

The mural of their watershed is EVERYTHING!!! I'm so impressed.🤯

The true beauty is the sense of community and cooperation from the people, this could never happen even in small town America

@EvolveYourBrain

10 ай бұрын

Same here in india in cities and suburb but Indian villages are different. Everyone help, support and care for each other. They especially come together and set their perry fights and disputes aside for a bigger cause.

I have been trying my best to set up a traditional (permaculture) organic farm here in Rajasthan. I wish the Paani Foundation help my area and the farmers as well. We have an acute shortage of groundwater due to various man-made and geographical reasons. I don't know how to approach and convince them. I am a software engineer by profession and my knowledge is limited to our backyard and kitchen garden where i created a micro-forest. Sending you big hugs Andrew and the entire Paani Foundation teams. you guys make this planet more beautiful and sustainable.

@ss-ib8gm

10 ай бұрын

take your villagers ones who are supportin and those against include women young kids youth too they will be motivated to take up labor work for their village , take them to these places hire bus or go in train , show these videos, including dhun they turned desert into green natural way

@rajlaxmigupta6792

10 ай бұрын

राजस्थान में भी इस तरह का काम हुआ है और वो सब गांववालो ने मिलकर किया है Dhun NGO जयपुर के मानवेंद्र और Maruvan के गौरव गुजर ये काम कर रहे है आप उनसे सलाह ले सकते हो।

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

A couple of the videos that will be featured in this series are in Rajasthan, in the village of Laporiyah south of Jaipur, and in the Thar Desert with GRAVIS Jodhpur, so I think you will find some useful information for your context

Poverty to prosperity with water…bless these people. How exciting and such a relief for them, their futures are truly hopeful…

My scientist dad Dr. Deshmukh got award from pani foundation

When I first saw your videos 5 years ago, I took the decision to go to university to learn everything about soil and water engineering with focus on agricultural landscaping!! So truely, this is shaping and giving hope again

Loved the little head shake when you gave the speech, as someone with many indian friends it was funny to see that from you aswell.

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

It is a necessary form of communication in India (especially the South)

@gautamvarma2762

10 ай бұрын

Haha...so true....I remember my German friend copying me every time I would do the side nod... 😂😂

@knightatdawndonbynight8432

10 ай бұрын

@@amillison The state of Maharashtra is part of Western India, not south India (although it is geographically contiguous with south Indian states, central India and other western Indian states and geographically closer to south India than to north India). Mahrashtra is part of Indo-aryan linguistic culture prevailing in North India compared dravidian liguistic culture prevailing in south India. Marathi, the official language of Maharashtra is an Indo-Aryan language.

@greatbalance

9 ай бұрын

@@knightatdawndonbynight8432 You have nothing better to do than come here and parrot your irrelevant foreign textbook theories. What the heck does "Indo-Aryan" and "dravidian" have got to do with this video. Your entire perspective needs a big correction. Maharashtra has always been part of the south in the ancient Indian understanding of their own land. The land south of the Vindhya is called Dakshinaapatha. And the various groups of Maharashtra are counted under the "Pancha draavida" regions "five southern" regions. There is no such thing as "linguistic culture" it's an absurd term. You clearly have zero idea of the immense commonalities between the culture of various regions and the languages as well. This is what happens when you sit in your ivory towers and don't know what is on the ground. Fool.

@speaktruth452

9 ай бұрын

This is something every time I met someone out of India, keep looking when I am going to shake my head 😂😂😂😂

This has so much potential worldwide. Others like ​@dustupstexas could use this to further their projects as well. Water reclamation and aquifer rejuvenation can completely change a landscape.

It will be gret to include rotational grazing (Holistic Planned Grazing) according to André Voisin and Allan Savory. Animals thrive on daily portions with more yields and building humus. Grazing of food- and fodder-agroforestry is also great. It produces a surplus of wood that can also feed woodgas-stoves for cooking and small steam-engine generators. Ralf Otterpohl, Author of "Garden Communities - Living diversely, Producing locally, together with nature and neighbors"

Andrew,with your knowledge and impact in this field, could you bring something like this to the USA? I think you could get a lot of people behind this. Your name is synonymous with this movement.

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

There are a lot of social challenges and land ownership patterns that make this same thing tricky in the USA. The question is where in the USA can landholders get together at the watershed scale? Once people can unite in their basic intentions within a watershed, then it is easy

@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188

10 ай бұрын

@@amillison I'm personally trying in my area, the highlands of the Mohave desert in Arizona. A few of my neighbors have seen what we are doing with only a shovel and are impressed. We've shown those how to make small changes in their runoff to recharge and repair. We've managed to bring a lot of biodiversity back into the areas we've worked. Thank you for sharing this and bring it to people like me who see the difference.

@swatisharma9006

10 ай бұрын

@@amillisonI have seen a couple of videos where a group of people come together and buy land for the purpose of creating something like a permaculture food forest or simply to conserve in accordance to the same principles like the conservation efforts in the village. I believe that has some benefit to it - (1) We don’t have to get into complexity of getting state and government and all city residents to be on same page because as of now that seems a daunting task. (2) With some ownership; commitment becomes easier and so does the motivation because each stakeholder realizes that it’s going to help them to get involved. I would like to mention Ithaca Eco Village; where on the land it’s 90% farm and 10% housing. It’s not entirely per permaculture principles but it doesn’t exhaust the land with construction like most city dwellings do. Is that something you and other permaculture specialists can help organize and invite people who are interested with ownership prospects? I have seen tiny home dwellings that could be improved by incorporating building a food forest plus giving people little space to call home; not rent. Because another aspect that people are fighting against is dwindling home ownership because renting has become a lucrative business and one that people have no control or ownership.

@ooooneeee

9 ай бұрын

​@@ourrockydreamontheelephant4188that's awesome, keep inspiring your neighbours. ❤

I remember the first video you did about this village. In this swamp of negative media we call KZread, it's a breath of fresh air to see such amazing progress. Thank you for sharing.

I am big fan your work. It amazing to see what communities can do without politicians help

@lamdao1242

10 ай бұрын

But if you had better politicians who are less corrupt, much much more could have been done much earlier. Consider China. Back in the early 1990s, China’s GDP was about the same as India’s. Today, China’s GDP is ~ 10x bigger. China’s politicians were not much better than India’s but that slight “betterness” between them is the reason why China uplifted 1/2 a BILLION people out of poverty. You should visit China one day.

@Kathakathan11

10 ай бұрын

Politicians help too, especially with permissions and getting people together. I attended one event where police was working 10 days to organise that event, crowd management etc. event was for same paani foundation and politicians were discussing water policy, frame wages etc.

@Kathakathan11

10 ай бұрын

@@lamdao1242also no instability with one party rule, we are too diverse too have that.

@19hbytuy

10 ай бұрын

@@lamdao1242 Chinese leaders who killed millions of there ppl.....no thank u

Love these videos. Wish we could see these kind of revolutions on this large a scale everywhere.

M from Haryana India. Apart from this revolutionary project in which they are doing marvelous job, i also like the Hospitality and heart warming welcome by the villagers make my eyes tears. Love this beautiful video. Come on let's this world beautiful ❤❤

This is brilliant. I love the water reclamation the decision to add more trees for the honeybees And the farmer's cup is brilliant as well. Forget university scientists invest in permaculture farming. Look up the gentleman named Krishna who lives on solitude farm in auroville Tamil Nadu. I think the biggest improvement for their village right now is tree planting. It provides shade it will decrease the temperature of the vilidge and get wildlife a place to build nests and find food. I lived in India for a year Part of the time working as a farmer on a permaculture farm, so I greatly appreciate what this village is doing.

now THERE is a candidate for the nobel prize

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

Yes! When you travel around with Dr Pol, you feel like you are accompanying a true mover of people

@facthub9964

16 күн бұрын

West will not approve him

All Indians pls pls pls support such works this is called progressive solutions 🙏🙏🙏

@viviennemurray9400

9 ай бұрын

❤

Im from north rajasthan We have water scarcity in Barmer district hope people can something like this Barmer so people will live there . Hope government do something about it aswell Maharashtra amazed me everytime when look at their hardworking people and the kind lf mindset they have .love Maharashtra and its vibrant people most forward people that i know were from Maharashtra

@nsn5564

10 ай бұрын

I hope tjese ideas can be implemented in Rajasthan as wrll. I know tjere are several projects that have implemented water harvesting via permaculture principles, and are rewilding and re-greening desertified areas in Rajasthan, in a small scale.

@j1407bmoon

10 ай бұрын

There's the Dhun program in Rajasthan doing the same thing

This is such incredible work! I wish Spain and Italy would follow! Thanks so much for your hard work sharing these stories.

Hi Andrew, I’ve watched many of your video and hoping to be able to do the same for Indonesia some years later after I am financially able to help others. Because Java now is having water problems too, which I think can easily be solved by digging more and more swales. The main problem in Java is flood occur a lot in the cities (lower area）while in the mountains, farmers pay tor water pump etc to irrigate their somewhat dry land. Do you think it can be successfully done too. Like what you did in India. Thank you for the exceptionally inspirational video.😊

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

I think it can be done in Indonesia with great success

The most ironic thing from the previous series were the ancient watershed structures which were abandoned and the knowledge of their workings lost. Great to see them and the knowledge being revived. Amazing that it has been lost and found throughout the centuries. Excellent videos, keep them coming. Thanks!

We are lucky to have you, Andrew. Thanks for dropping two gems in two days ❤

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

More to come!

Amazing, let’s learn from these people and bring that into the rest of the world 🙏

I love your work, Andrew, particularly since you hooked up with the Paani Foundation. The sheer scale of the work going on is an inspiration to the planet.

The thing I admire most of this is that people improve their lives themselves rather than waiting on someone else or the government

@viviennemurray9400

9 ай бұрын

Exactly right ❤

If there is any more uplifting a thing than the water capture stuff, please tell me. This is humanity making the world better than nature ever could via giving nature all the best opportunities. Simply superb.

Such beautiful stories of hope. I'm so glad you are there to relay them to us, and people like Dr. Pol are around to bring about change. 🙏

This should be replicated worldwide

I'm hooked to these videos. Teaching to fish; that's what it is about. Helping WELL. Kudos to everyone involved. Bravo. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

My only complaint is that there are not more videos. I know, I know it takes time but I do spend time checking to see if there is a new one, don't want to miss any. I have noticed that although we are in a very extreme drought, the area that I have for the wildlife (half my property) is always green and the other side gets very dry in times like this and need watering. If I could figure out why, I'd be happy.

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

If you have funding for more videos, let me know :-}

@carmenortiz5294

10 ай бұрын

@@amillison I'll start buying lotery tickets, and maybe I'll win a million or two, and forward it to you. LOL Absolutely Great Job, I am a big fan, in a tiny wild life habitat in the middle of very sandy soil in Minnesota, where winter can last 8 months.

Andrew, I've teared with both of these episodes. This is nothing short of amazing. 💚

Thank you for sharing this and all the other updates you are providing. This is fantastic work being performed by humble living very prosperous indigenous people who hopefully are learning what true wealth in life is, and not to be enticed by the false wealth that pervades our beautiful planet. I also hope there is new found respect for the teachings of Gandhi as part of this fantastic process. The humble people of India have the potential here for being incredible leaders to a path of prosperity for all globally and eject the food monopoly unjustly held by a few corporations around the World. A testament to the liberating power of self-knowledge and water.

Thanks!

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support Jon :-)

At last a glimmer of hope is this awful world at the moment - well done everyone.

Amazing!

Save soil 🙏

@martingardens

10 ай бұрын

Make soil.

This is incredible to see, seems like it has parts of the solution needed even for the Colorado river long-term.

this is a wonderful series. i hope there are a bunch of videos, because i'm looking forward to all of them.

You draw all of that beautifully! It is really nice to hear them speak and see the same in a simple visual

The rest of the world can learn so much from what is happening there in India! Water crisis.... No way good water management that's the key of everything!

Awesome Well done! ❤ This is the work that need to be done.

Just wow.

Amazing content, your videos are truly inspiring

This work is fenomenal...

lovely video - from cultural experiences, to the meaning of life in water itself. Had my faith in humanity restored. thank you

@Kathakathan11

10 ай бұрын

As long as you have gratitude towards nature and humanity, keep that faith alive. Keep spreading that faith. Love and light will always win. Tejomaya

Excellent video .Lot to learn. It is like Swales on contours

See this makes me proud 😊

Great work of unity...👍

Another wonderful episode! Can't wait to see more.

Great to see these new videos, Andrew. Super glad you're making them. Hope to get to interact with you in the current PDC class or the APDC early next year. I'm currently working with Kelda, and it's a blast going through the works. Thanks for all your work.

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

So glad you're in the PDC and Kelda is a really good instructor :-)

Fascinating, beautiful, and heart-warming.

This work gives me hope in humanity yet.

Paani foundation project is probably the best thing Aamir Khan has done in his entire career, along with the Satyamev Jayate series.

This is inspirational and positive event . Hope many areas in India and the world learn and take action for the benifit of people and the nature.

Epic❤

These projects are upmost beautiful to see!

Thanks @amillison 🕊 Dr Pol seems a wonder worker, inspiring and educating the people! ‘India’s Water Revolution’ is the best film series

Thank you Andrew for alerting the world on this inspirational journey People working with the planet is the way forward

This is great wow what a difference

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

It's amazing seeing the progression. It's quite the difference indeed!!!

This are dreams coming true for Mother Earth, people, birds and bees and best of all Water channeled to her best use. We all thank you.

Some of the best videos on KZread! Thanks

Inspiring!

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

100%!

Respect to farmers working in farms around the world, you are the best 🙏🙏🙏

@amillison

9 ай бұрын

They deserve so much credit and respect! :) Thank you for watching.

Great work Andrew, looking forward to your future plans and endeavours :)

Simply brilliant and hope giving

Great work of WATER CONSERVATION पाणी फाऊंडेशन my home place ❤

Good luck for the pani foundation.

Your videos are amazing. I love seeing the people return to their villages because there is work for them now, just because of water. Regards from Belgium.

All that water flowing is a beautiful thing to witness. Bill Mollison spoke of creating a trompe to produce Compress air. I wonder if they can create 1?

I'd like to do a water cup for my work in East Africa. This accomplishes so much more than other BINGOs.

Let's hope that we can apply this model at a national level successfully.

Absolute joy to follow their journey through your KZread channel. I think one of the most underutilized assets Indian villages have is the perfect weather conditions to produce biogas from left over organic waste, feces (animal/human). I wish they would have a competition which village would best adopt the techniques to create biogas for fuel, electricity, warmth, cooking gas and most importantly excellent and biofriendly fertiliser, all produced hyper locally. There's many startups creating the inexpensive components needed such as HomeBiogas

Doing the Good work.

Respect and admiration for my indian brothers! Thanks for theaching us

God bless you all Mr Andrew Millison

This is an outstanding initiative by Aamir Khan and his team (along with other similar projects all over India), well deserving of Bharat Ratna. Now let's implement this all over India!

These are great projects. The WEF probably doesn't like the recovery process and creation of independent communities from global trade. Great job

I'm so happy to see projects like this, We need to do it everywhere around the world.

Thank you so so much for making these Video, Andrew. The impact they have on people's hearts is not measurable. Can you perhaps make a "what is Permaculture" video, that I can show random people that ask me what it is?

@amillison

10 ай бұрын

You could reference them to my short on that exact question. I could have gone on, and on but I think it's one way to summarize what it means. :) Check it out here! kzread.infoBfN5QGgPL4k?feature=share

I thank you from bottom of my heart for showing this cause it is most important to share such things because over the world I didn't know that this kind of thing is happening... It's a movement n how they made it happened it's tremendous... Thank You Thank You Thank You 🙏🙏🙏

These videos are so great to watch and inspiration on permaculture. Just for and educational for an IT guy not a farmer .....yet!

I literally love you for the work you are producing. It is just is so heartwarming to se such hope in a world that really needs it. Thank-you!

Awesome!!!! Thank you all for your excellent work on behalf of all humanity!

Keep it up! So cool to see what can be done.

Thank you for this series, that shows what happens when you invest in permaculture and support farmers. I recently developed a saying about American farming & the impact of the Farm Bill: America should support farmers, instead, we support crops. And profits of seed/chemical companies. This way of living may is certainly better for land & people than US-chemical ag /confined livestock, and may well be a better wildlife habitat than some protected but mostly unmanaged parks & forests. USA/Canada Europe needs to figure out how to integrate permaculture farming and hybrid modern/indigenous living (like these villages) into our society.

The CCTs and water storage areas seem to be adding lots of standing water pools nearby the villages. What measures do the villagers take to prevent these from becoming breeding grounds for pests like mosquitos, especially in India which from experience has particularly ferocious mosquitos that carry disease? As a geologist of Indian descent also interested in environmental protection and permaculture, the Pani Foundation is doing amazing work rejuvenating these villages using Earth Sciences! Subscribed to your channel.

i am happy to finally see, to learn, and i might actually be able to change other regions in another country too. Thank You. Thanks for showing a better way. As an trained architect, i am still wondering how to incoorporate the knowledge in the university and the city councils.

@martingardens

10 ай бұрын

You might consider taking Professor Millison's class in Permaculture at Oregon State University?

Excellent and thanks for your illustrations and diagrams to help us understand how it all comes together. 👍

Such an inspiration for humanity

Thnks Andrew,ill use this in upcoming upsc mains

Outstanding work done by all these wonderful people.Very proud of all these wonderful people.

Good for them, it's never late to try. Hope other communities will understand it too ! ☝️