Trees for Water

Trees for Water, Indien

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The project is located in the Maharashtra state which is suffering from severe droughts in recent years due to seasonal water scarcity, limiting the access to potable water of the most marginalized communities in India. Short periods of heavy rainfall and absence of vegetation are major factors for soil erosion and land degradation. Trees protect against soil erosion and make the soil more permeable, thus improving groundwater availability.

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Schlüsselelemente
Projektaktivitäten
Wiederaufforstung
Reforestation
The project is planting trees to re-establish forest cover in an area of forest that has been deforested.
18 Updates
Management von Wasserressourcen
Water Resources Management
Water supplies are a part of the project sustainable management, such as improving water quality and quantity and contributing to the reduction of water-related risks such as floods.
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Ökologischer Nutzen
Wiederherstellung des Bodens
Land restoration
The project repairs degraded land back into a healthy and productive land.
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Bio
Organic
The project is managed without the use of agrochemicals or herbicides.
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Sozialer Nutzen
Ernährungssicherheit
Food security
Through a selection of tree species generating edible by-products (fruit, nuts, seeds, edible leafs) the project contributes to improving nutrition of local communities and help the region becoming more resilient to famine.
5 Updates
Sozialwirtschaft
Social economy
The project places social welfare above profit; the aim is to enhance the community's quality of life, economically, socially, culturally and environmentally.
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Umweltbewusstsein
Environmental awareness
The project cultivates environmental education for adults and/or children to raise environmental awareness.
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Das Pflanzteam
Grow-Trees

Grow-Trees

Partner Organization
Mr. Pravin Adhikari

Mr. Pravin Adhikari

Field Executive
Mr. Omkar Dubey

Mr. Omkar Dubey

Project Coordinator
Amanda

Amanda

Senior Manager (Business & Partnerships)

Standards zur Reduzierung von Treibhausgasen

Tree-Nation Methodology

Projektbeschreibung

Water scarcity is destabilizing the world’s second-largest country.

A lack of potable water poses a threat to the Katkaris, a Tribe of Maharashtra state, designated as a ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)’ within the Scheduled Tribes. Access to quality water is fundamental to better living conditions, especially in rural marginalized communities. Limited access to potable water leads to drought, water-borne diseases and hunger, with crop growth and farming directly impacted.

Maharashatra frequently suffers from severe droughts. According to a report by the Ministry of Water Resources and the Central Ground Water Board, there is a rapid decline in water level during the post-monsoon period, whereas the area goes practically dry during peak summers. The overuse of groundwater to tackle water scarcity only worsens the problem.

Vegetation helps rainwater from the monsoons to be retained by the soil - without tree roots and canopy water from rainfall can’t infiltrate, leading to floods and soil surface erosion during monsoons and water scarcity during the dry season.

Trees improve groundwater resources, turning the soil more permeable, permitting the storage of rainwater, and maintain groundwater availability during dry periods.

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