Soil and Water Conservation – Yuva Rural Association

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

To arrest soil erosion and rainwater area and drainage line treatment are necessary, but farmers in Vidarbha do not practice this. Farm Banding, Farm Pond, Recharge Pits, Well deepening camp; Diversion bund will be proposed for sustainable agriculture, which is very important. It helps increase yield due to fertile soil and water percolation.

Handpump Filtration Units

During the survey, YRA realised that many families in the village still drink handpump water. From the study, it was found that the water of the hand pump was not fit to drink, then this initiative was implemented to make the hand pump’s water pure, clean, and drinkable.

There are still families in rural areas that drink the water of the handpump, and many handpumps are bad. There is a lot of silt in the water. The initiative has been implemented to ensure that such villagers get pure and self-sufficient water under a hand pump. In the absence of purified water in rural areas, many diseases are seen, and the villagers’ money is spent on illness to the doctor. The initiative has been implemented to reduce villagers’ cost conditions and keep their health healthy.

Due to our initiative, Earlier, the water in the handpump was very alkaline, and the colour of the water was red. The water was foul and unclean, but after the filtering, the water started to come clean.

Roof Water Harvesting

YRA took the initiative to help raise the water level in the ground by draining the rainwater from the roof of the village’s public building and the water level on the land.

This withered water will help the wells and handpumps in the vicinity to increase the water and land levels.
There are also some schools, kiosks or gram panchayats in the project whose rooftop water is not fully draining down, so that water remains on the roof; therefore, the building continues to hail, and due to this reason, the structures become weak and collapse before time.
The initiative was implemented to adequately drain water from the roof of such a collapsing building.
Due to roof water harvesting, the water will be drained down properly, and the water will be discharged into the ground properly.

Recharge Pits

YRA developed recharge pits on an open space considering the topography and rainwater catchment, as well as the flow of percolated groundwater in the proposed project villages. YRA has vast experiences and evidence of an increased groundwater level through Recharge Pits. The rainwater falling in the village should be drained in the village itself, which will help the valley and handpump to increase the water level, the soil erosion will remain intact, and drought-prone conditions will not arise.