WaterHarvest

WaterHarvest (formerly Wells for India) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1987. We provide grant funding and technical support for water-based rural development projects. WaterHarvest works with rural communities to harvest the monsoon rains, enabling the poorest people to reap the benefits of safer and sustainable water. We implement low-cost, sustainable solutions combining our technical expertise with traditional wisdom, to capture and store precious monsoon rain (i.e. water harvesting). Over the past 30 years, simple but highly effective harvesting structures have aided us to help the maximum number of people with the minimum of funding. At WaterHarvest we never seek to impose solutions, either on our partners or on beneficiaries. The projects we support are designed using participatory (also known as demand-led) methods, involving people in planning and taking action for their own future. We believe that any support we provide must not encourage any sense of depend...