India is refilling its aquifers with an engineering technique that long predates the arrival of the British. India holds 18% of the world’s people yet just 4% of its fresh water, so it’s now turning to its johads and stepwells, structures built to store water or slow it down until it soaks in. These long-abandoned ways of managing water are now being recognised as climate-resilient systems that functioned for over 1,000 years. BBC Future https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260820-india-is-turning-to-ancient-water-systems-as-modern-ones-run-dry
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