This man changed the fortunes of a barren land using traditional water wisdom. The story of Dhun-1
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- Опубликовано: 10 май 2024
- 00:00 - Before and after footage
00:22 - Introduction
00:42 - Floods led to land degradation
02:11 - Using community knowledge
02:51 - Constructing a tank to store water
05:18 - Water changes the landscape
06:37 - More water harvesting structures
07:30 - Land rejuvenates, biodiversity returns
The Dhun series is divided into two parts.
The first part of Bringing water to the barren land can be found here.
Story of Dhun:
This dry and dusty piece of 500-acres of land on the outskirts of Jaipur
once hardly had 30 trees on it. But today, the same land has over 120 species of birds, 70 species of native trees and thousands of animals.
This land in the Phagi district once had plenty of life in it. But a devastating flood ruined the topsoil and left the land to die and be part of the desert.
The fate of the land changed when Manavendra Singh Shekhawat, a hotelier from Jaipur saw the land back in 2013.
Instead of selling the land in parts, Manavendra aspired to do something different with the land, to create an alternative ecosystem to live in, to build a unique business model while keeping the land away from the unscientific and destructive practices.
And the first step for his dream project was to bring water to this dry land and using traditional water harvesting practices the land today has more than 8 waterbodies in it.
The water also has completely transformed the life and economy of the neighbouring villages as well.
With the water feeding the land and with 100s of trees and buzzing wildlife, Manavendra is now stepping on to build an alternate living space here.
Look out for part 2, where we will show you how Manvendra along with the community converted this barren land into a lush green forest.
You can follow Dhun's work here.
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My village😊 It is great to see this, apart from this pond there was nothing here, today Manvendra ji and his father Shri Meghraj Singh Shekhawat ji together have made this place a heaven and have provided a healthy and beautiful environment to our village.Thank you very much sir
Such a good story. But there was something there before the flood. Now it's back, and probably even better. I just hope there will not be another flood to take it away again!
you live there?
This is wonderful. I am happy for you and your village. Very interesting too.
Brother can you help me acquire 500 acres barren land so that I can too make effort to convert it into a jungle? Anyone willing to help?
Wishing you peace and the restoration of beautiful nature from the US!
Greetings from Austria, this seems very similar to the work of the Paani Foundation in Maharashtra. This recent movement of Indians using science and revitalizing pre-colonial knowledge of land- and water management to stop desertification and to make India a green garden in the wake of climate change is hugely inspiring. You guys are people of action who take matters into their own hands, in my country we can learn a thing or two from India.
Land use change is a clearer term.
❤👍👏👌❤🙏
Guten Tag! Grüße aus Indien. Ich interessiere mich sehr für Ihr Interesse auf dem Thema. Ich freue mich ganz besonders auf Sie kennenzulernen und wir könnten vielleicht zusammen im Zukunft arbeiten. Soziale Entwicklung interessiert mich unzahlbar.
Hi greetings from Goa India. Ive been to Austria once, Vienna is a beautiful city and I got the chance to visit some of the Platz in the city. Hopefully you can come here and enjoy your stay as well 🙂
Mankind when done with all the materialism of world which they presume is making them happy will realize that leading a Simple life with nature gives more happiness
I’m from Canada but I know of a ranch in Montana USA that did something similar by introducing beavers to the small creek. Started as a desert , 30 years later it’s a forest.
You sure that was in Montana? Cuz i just watched a video of a similar project in Oregon.
@jordan Weber or @Manan Mody share you're link? I"d love to watch that. 🙂Thanks.
Beavers are amazing!
@@mananmody9355 They are introducing beavers all over the place.
Awesome
Incredible India 😍❤ , Greetings from Europe, this is the Dream of good People on our continent
All continents float. Larger towns and cities are controlled. Many small towns are using wells for homes, stores, farms, multi family dwellings. One of the biggest secrets. The waters above and waters below. Biblical.
Great!!!!
In Rajasthan we always thought that there is nothing that we can do for lack of water
But after watching this! I am inspired to build pond like that in my Village where it rains lot
But there is nothing to store rain water but now i will do my best to store rain water and start Rain water harvesting so i can make my land prosperous!!! Greetings from Gujarat!!!
Best wishes and more power to you and your village.
Yes! So inspiring 💜❤️💜!!
Try to find out what types of soil can collect water and what types of soils can prevent water from seeping out of it, you might have ample supply of them just below your feet. Once you dig the pond and line it with the correct type of substrate, water will naturally pool
Godspeed, I hope you meet success
Here's to hoping the Great Indian Desert can be reclaimed back to it's status in the ancient times
I never get tired of watching this. please help those lands and countries with severe drought God bless! ❤️🇵🇭
There is no god. Only human effort.
its up to us all to help
Global warming is winning and this is just the beginning
Think globally, act locally .
Reduce your carbon footprint
Every dollar you spend is a vote
Its time we behave like adults
Its time we face the facts and take responsibility
Please
Act and Vote responsibly every day before its to late
Cough cough California cough
Humanity somehow forgot how to build aqueducts. Too bad for us.
@@TetraTerezi God bless is an expression and you were reading too much into it. Keep your atheist perspective to yourself.
It’s amazing how resilient the land is in India. Within a year, such great improvement. I hope other districts will learn from their amazing work
Yeah, they get heavy rainfall, it seems to make a lot of sense to capture it rather than just let it drain away immediately.
I love watching videos like this, so amazing to have people working together for the common good. India leads the world in this type of thing.
Wish folks in the US, in the most needy areas would get together and act as these folks have. The west would be greener.
@@finiantsl5573 People in the west are generally exceptionally lazy and wont lift a finger until their own individual ass is literally on the line, like if they have nothing to eat, get homeless or their children are starving. Until SHTF, they prefer to be walking zombies.
Technology that goes hand in hand with local wisdom can bring about enormous changes in our lives. Well Done!!!
This renews my faith in life itself! Thank you so much to all those who work to help Nature !
Amen.
So great to see people pulling together to help each other rather than blaming everyone else for their problems- if only this can spread across the world?
What a beautiful story! It's great to see the locals working together with modern science people to re instate a land that was once productive, that turned desert, but now is transformed back to the green land it was meant to be. People need the land as the land needs good people. A story that brings hope to our world.
Such a great work.. Their are more than 50000 such land transformation work required in many states.. Why can't just govt water n land dept in such states work and partner with such initiatives.. This fast world needs more teams like DHUN vision...
Wow!!!! What a great story. I congratulate all the people involved in using their intelligence and physical hard work in creating a better place to live, not only for the local people, but also for all the animals. Very well done to you all!!!!!!!!
Amen
that's why we can india mother, because no other land is like india, she is like mother for us
I am really impressed with the way you guys have understood the needs of the land un such a timely manner and helped the land to become alive where the land would not have been able to come alive by its own. The soil that you helped repair will never forget you and it will bestow upon you and your generations to come with its bounties. It will spread its chest to comfort and sustain you. This is how God uses its good people and keeps so many benefiting for millions of years.
I am Kamran Gul Mughalkhel from Bannu, Pakistan. Wishing and praying for all the best for you guys. Great work.
What a wonderful and inspiring story. Humanity is waking up to the enormous value of our ancestors’ knowledge.
Amen.
Happened to just get this recommended out of nowhere but this is an incredibly interesting example of climate restoration. It kinda reminds me of a local project where I live, an area that had been drained to become farmland had the pumps turned off and was turned into a huge freshwater lake instead and it became a massive source of biodiversity and stopped the issues with oxygen deprivation in the local bay. With just a bit of a helping hand it's amazing how much damage nature can undo and how big the benefits can be to all of us.
Wow sounds interesting, where is this area you mention?
The planet was hostile to life. Absolutely hostile. It healed into paradise and well then Humans happened. It is more about blaming humans than crediting nature.
Healthy wetlands are awesome!
Well done people much blessings on you ❤️ from 🇦🇺 you are bringing change to our mother!
This would be amazing to do this to inland Australia!
Do it in Australia 🇦🇺, Bu the Uluru,please 🙏
Huge respect to this man behind this.What a transformation for everyone and nature👏👏👏👏
This is amazing stuff. I don't have words to appreciate what Manvendra and his team done it. Love from Pakistan!!
I like the ending where it talks about tuning into nature and away from cities.... they're not evil but they can't fulfill us spiritually....only God and mother nature can( in my humble opinion)....man this is sooo cooool....this guy took a barren piece of land and turned it into something beautiful that takes care of itself....from what was already there....no huge amounts of concrete and steal....just moving some dirt around and directing the water into a beautiful pond for birds and fish and wildlife..... I hope this really becomes a worldwide movement that permanently ends world hunger....may it be so O'Lord Jesus 👏👏👏
We need nature, we don't need jesus though
@@dihe1392 Spirituality is only aim
Entrepreneurs of all sorts .. India has no dearth of potential .. just one person is needed who has a vision and rest becomes history..!!! Very proud of you Mr Manavendra Singh Shekhawat and your team .. the much needed environmental change and rejuvenation of natural resources as well as of birds and animals .. God bless ‘Dhun’
I'm watching down to earth from long time, action taken for transforming of Bharat by ancient wisdom gives satisfaction.
Living efficiently life enough not destroyed
As a senior citizen (who continues to garden and can), this video of what you’ve accomplished in just a few years is heart warming. Best wishes to y’all in the coming years!
This is how we feel more proud of youth knowledge cultivation... bravo
This brought a big smile to me. Very satisfying to see restoration of a barren land into a beautiful land
It's really heartening to see the amount of hard work, wisdom of villagers and tech infusion has bring this piece if land into life... Grt job Mr manvendra and team. This feat won't be achieved without ur persistence and dogged spirit. An emotional salute to u guys!!! Jai Hind!!!!!!
This man is a visionary. What amazed me is all the animals there. I can understand that birds can fly there, but how dows watersnakes and rodents get there?
They are naturally present in Indian subcontinent.
Give it half a chance, and life will find a way.
life finds a way
@@omaspennice man!!! This is a perfect quote!
Brought tears to my eyes!
How beautiful my mother earth looks with all her children frolicking !
❤️🌍
These people are working to make a living, pretty much surviving and coming out of third world drought conditions. Frolicking my ass. I know I probably seem like an asshole for having a different opinion, but I think my point is valid.
@@___X___ Who is not making a living ?? Are u living off giving everything to others without asking anything in return ??? Lol, even large Govt., will not work without Taxation... Everybody, is making a living, but how colorful they do or boring is up to them... Some make it colorful, some agony to themselves and ppl around them...
There is not enough water to change all these habitats in to lush green. There is a reason that there dry desert types habitats.
@@___X___ you said it - you do sound like an asshole. Maybe you are one.
This video was about transformation of land by learning from locals, imbibing traditional knowledge and marrying it with modern technology to support local community and their livelihood.
Food is the basic necessity of all organisms including man. When the nature is devastated by bad practices and stops providing food, it is no longer about livelihood, its about survival.
The project reversed the devastation and that was the core of the video but being who you are, you could not see it.
Brilliant. Seen nothing like this before. So inspiring.
Then you need to see Andrew Millison's 2020 series: India's Water Revolution which I watched yesterday on YT.
Watch the work of 'Paani foundation' across Marathwada and Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. They have their own YT channel as well as documentaries made by other channels.
True!
What a great feeling for the inhabitants and those who planned and executed this project.
Its beautiful!
@@mrudula5973 Whatever happens, it must do good for Indians and India. I don't care wherever in India that happens.... Just do the f**kin good and help the people..
Watch "Regreening The Desert with Dr. John D. Liu”
Manvendra has a humble character and true environmentalist.....well done keep it up🙏
We need more like this guy
Well done young man ! This world needs more innovative and courageous young people like you to realise their dreams 🥰 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Absolutely beautiful and breathtaking. Super happy for the community there, and I hope many communities around the world learn from this and repeat this amazing process.
Truly inspiring, thank you!
This little act proved that we are part of the nature, and the nature is part of each of us.
Great respect to those visionaries of this project.
Traditionelle Indian wisdom is the gratest in the world. Keep the Globalist out and keep your Tradition
Yup 😌❤️
Thank you for sharing, it is great service to our Mother Earth.
Such an inspiring story. Thanks a lot for bringing such practices to mainstream.🙏🏻
Support from Poland 🇵🇱❤👍🥰Great Job!!!
Incredible effort. Congrats to DHUN initiative and the team worked to make this possible 👍🏻
Amazing work. True inspiration. Kudos to the team and brain behind this project 👏
Wow it's good worked. It helps everyone who is living in the desert. So beautiful ideas with good job. 🌧🌧💧💦💦💦🌳🌳🌵🌴🌾🌾🌾🎋🐏🐑🐪🐃🐂👍✊👏👏👏
This is how Jal Jeevan Mission works. I wish the whole video gets translated into different languages and gets spread across India.
How about across the world?
I saw so much dry empty land in southern India too, when I was there. This method would surely help there as well. It would work anywhere where the monsoon comes, basically.
The solar system?
Look up Chak Gulabpura, Rajasthan, India on Google Earth or Google Maps and you will find images from May 2021 that show zero change from the "before" satellite picture at the beginning of this video. This video is woefully misrepresentative of the processes so vaguely mentioned in it and it is criminally fraudulent if used to raise money.
@@utah658 My thoughts exactly.
What an amazing project! The vision of the owner of the land will inspire lots more people, I am sure!
First I thought: "Those subtitles are rude, he speaks decent english. Me, a non-english native understands him easily", then he switches to his mothertongue and back midsentense and I had to revind and read :-D
Great work!
Big salute to those who made it possible. Nothing else can give this happiness seeing what this can bring back to our community.
The initial problem statement was that top soil got washed away due to heavy floods. The solution part of the video doesn't say how this problem was solved by finding ways to store water. Or did it I miss something? Otherwise, honestly this is great work and great service to humanity by that noble team 🙏
Thank you, we deployed indigenous techniques of harvesting rainwater in ponds, farm bunds and swales as described in the video.
@@teamdhunlife6966
To extrapolate further, I would assume these ponds, swales, and bunds act in a way to slow surface water flow thus encouraging percolation into the ground rather than running off into the rivers.
The ground water keeps the soil moist thus encouraging plant life which also drastically helps to build and retain top soil. A total positive feedback loop.
Bravo.
@@JEEDUHCHRI Gardeners want to see more about the soil. Just watering ruined soil does not fix it in the USA.
@@teamdhunlife6966 I do hope, based on various shots in the video, you are doing something to control the erosion taking place in the water courses and inflows at the ponds.
Also are you creating marshes/wetlands to help with bio-diversification and to act a natural water filtration?
I liked the bunds. I have not seen that technique before.
The speciefied - a lot of damage was done to the topsoil (I suspect they had practice that put the land at risk), then - in desperation they grazed what little would grow and made it worse. The narrator says that it got worse over the course of a few years. As the land has enough rain, is supect some land degrading practices where already going on, when the flood hit. If there is grass it is not normal that the flood can take away all the topsoil.
Thanks team DHUN.
We need many more manvenders.
Thank you and god bless you boss🙏
Superb! Great reporting. This is the kind of inspiration that keeps me going forward in my mission.
What mission?
That some good thing recommended to me by YT algorithm after waking up in the morning, makes my day
A big salute to Down to earth team for bringing such amazing and fascinating content to us.
Jai hind
Thank you Ishaan for the compliments
True
@@D2E Why did you just thank ishaan rohmetra
Everyone is happy about this project and the way it became green, So many wonderful comments & You thanked none except ishaan rohmetra.. May I know why? I just saw You haven't even liked anyone's comment. This is surprising
@@D2E Looks to me like a very good start. Now if managed correctly it can be used for agriculture purposes while still staying nice and green. And if they want to and do it correctly parts of it can also be used for growing livestock. the key I believe is to correctly manege things so that it gets use but not abuse. I've been watching alot of regreening type video's lately and find them very interesting. And if/when the Lord blesses me with the type property I want,I plan on using some of the things I have been learning from some of these video's to at least make a start on protecting or improving whatever land I have charge over.
Jesus! Stop looking into things too much and concentrate on making your life and others' life better.
You are a hero to people animals and the land. You rock!
Like a miracle🥳 Mother Nature, a bit of nous and a lot of love. Well done. xxx
these people are real heros of the society, hats off guys
This is how the teamwork flourishes a barren land into master piece. If all of us give attention to few details in our city lives on stopping wastage of natural resources, we can soon become a self sustainable economy.
As someone who lives a very rural area, the biggest problem I have is uneducated city dwellers electing government officials who then make it more difficult to take care of the land. But because they SEEM like good ideas, the laws get passed and the land gets destroyed. So I caution city-dwellers to take time and expose themselves to nature and those who actually live in it so they understand the ecosystem better, rather than just hearing a few pretty sounding but misleading words from their government officials.
I would like to thank to those who had brought such a life in this times of harshness. Great work . Keep up.
Hats off to Manvendra ji and Team Dhun👍
#DownToEarth. We have done a same thing recently in Jhansi,UP. Approx 40 days of digging and earth fill construction and today we have a big lake of approx 15 acres and an adjacent private forest. Peacock Cormorant Kingfisher Lapwing Francolin Cattle Egret and Rabbits Snakes are most common. The green cover in adjacent land has become so thick that it's not possible today to look through it. It already had vegetation but the lake reinforced the growth. We have now put fish and turtle in the lake. Let's hope the water stays till summer. Next summer we have bigger plans.
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@@D2E sure
wonderfull, such an improvement of the environment, with relative simple technologies and clever thinking. Cooperating with Nature, instead of working around it. Bravo!
Salute to the whole team.
Great work guys. U make India proud 🦚
Hatsoff
Awesome. We need more people trying various combinations of these methods. Thank you down to earth team.
permaculture is such a practice.
I love this story. If I ever make it back to india again, I would love to visit your community. Love from New Zealand
Thank you for this incredibly inspiring report! It is awesome to see how nature can absolutely come back into blooming with the right impulses. Congratulations to everyone who made this wonderful endeavor happen!
Living legend!
Truly informative and inspirational... This same kind of community knowledge of water conservation with the help of modern equipment can change the millions of ecers of barren land and reduce desertification process... Which is not only need of the hour but also it's our future... Now more cities could follow the water conservation process to more efficiently use the rain water. DHUN must stay in tune...
it was not a barren land, it just had a natural disaster and was not tended to. You can't do this in the middle of a desert where there's no rain. It was a very good land, with very good circumstances. It just needed a nudge back to the normal direction. Now that the ecosystem is healed, top soil can recover overtime
This is the most inspiring video I have seen in my entire life!
Beautiful m aap jese logo ko dekh k hi apne ghar m or bahar khi bhi jata hu nature ke liye kuch na kuch karta rahta hu logo ko tree's lgane ko kahta hu khud bhi karta hu jab m ek koi tree lgata hu or vo grow karta hai Es se upper aaj tak koi kushi ni hue mujhe Great job brother 🏞️
Human indeed is the most intelligent animal and a superhero for it's other young mates if only human realises the superpower of humanity.
Best in doing so. They have to get in contact with other NGO's and all to help other states also. India needs this the most
"Water will allow the land to heal itself." A beautiful sentiment.
BEAUTIFUL! Saving this Planet 🌴🪴🌿🌵🌳🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍🌏🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎🌎
beautiful there
Smoothing and rejuvenating to listen & seeing... Well done guys... 🙏
Beautiful to see all that green land, hard work paid off!
Thankful to the whole team
These kind of Successful Real Stories never able to see in Media... Very unfortunate media wants only Politics & TRP ratings not Positive things to share with people..
Absolutely brilliant... spread this to all of india ... development , environmental protection and sustainability go hand in hand
This is so inspiring! Water is the key to soil and all life, and it's good to see that traditional wisdom is being brought back so successfully.
Natural sequence farming will save the planet. Great job guys love from Australia
The whole Aravalli dwelling communities should take inspiration and turn their barren and brown fields into lush green ecosystems of native trees, animals and birds. Hope this message far and wide across Rajasthan and whole of India.
Real heroes of the society
Greetings and admiration from Australia. India has so much to teach the world. Thank you.
What a great story! Many thanks, Manvendra & Team Dhun for your dedication to the cause!
Great job done by true Indian's
This is so damn beautiful...Thanks to all you guys for doing such a marvelous work...No words just awesome...I was so stressed lately, such acts gives me and many others 'HOPE'
Absolelutely common sense & No Money Lusting can bring great results ALL ROUND . West needs 2 WAKEUP -This Along with *TheOceanCleanup*
Invigorating ! Inspiring !!
Thank you Team DTW
Dhun = Dune! Water is precious and yet so powerful!
Continue down to earth 👍 I am watching each and every video of your......
Very Inspiring...what team DHUN have been able to achieve...such works need all the publicity in this times and thanks to DTE for showcasing the same...
Fantastic. The world needs more of this and less of the damage corporations are doing.
Really a great job. Appreciate you. God bless
Happy to see this
i love these stories! amazing work! thank you!!!
There are 7 episodes in the series 'India's Water Revolution' which I watched yesterday showing similar stories about Permaculture across India.
I love it when the narrators talk about back braking labor and the footage show heavy earth moving equipment doing the work
LOL you're not the only person who noticed that.
Reciban mis sinceras felicitaciones desde Zihuatanejo, Guerrero. México.
Very Inspiring
Waiting for part 2
Wonderful & inspiring.
Thank you.
Water is life. Let’s safe water.
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰