Introduction
Vishwanath Srikantaiah joins us on Audiogyan. He is a water activist, the mind behind the Bengaluru-based NGO, Rainwater Club, and a visiting faculty at the School of Development at Azim Premji University. He is a Civil Engineer and Urban — Regional Planner by training and has been working in the field of water and sanitation sector for over 35 years. I am so honored to have you Vishwanath on Audiogyan. Thanks for giving us your time and welcome to the show.
Questions
How do you define a well? Do we have these huge reservoirs in Rajasthan? Are those wells or does a well need to have source/spring water?
Importance of well since early civilization? Can you share a bit more about the irony of worshipping rivers but having well in every house? Why don’t / didn’t we worship wells?
What different types of wells do we have in India? w.r.t water and structure?
How were wells designed back then? What has changed since then?
How did the Mannu Vaddars know where to dig? Please tell us about this community of Mannu Vaddars who used to design wells in earlier times.
A brief idea about “Is using groundwater practice, mainly used in India or other parts of the world also?”
You gave a brilliant analogy of wells being used as a straw to suck groundwater for personal use in individual houses. Can you share some brief history about it? Any pros and cons of this system?
Irrigation seems to be the main reason for grown water depletion. But we have been an agricultural civilization for many years. What changed and when?
What system can be designed in the current time to maintain groundwater levels for India?
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