Winner of the 4th National Water Award 2022 (1st Rank, NGO Category) – Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of India and part of multiple National FICCI, India CSR and CSR NGOBOX Water Sustainability Awards.
Natural Resource Management (NRM)
To conserve, regenerate and ensure the judicious use of natural resources – soil, water, flora and fauna – Arpan takes an integrated watershed approach spanning water conservation, groundwater recharge, minor irrigation, forest & biodiversity conservation and regenerative farming.
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Treated 1,70,000+ hectares under watershed development (Government projects: 8,091 ha; CSR-supported projects: 1,41,900+ ha).
- Increased water-holding capacity by 29,600 million litres and enhanced groundwater recharge potential by 60,200million litres.
- Prepared watershed Detailed Project Reports for 3,00,000+ hectares, spanning rainfall zones from 180mm to 2,800mm, implemented up to saturation level for long-term sustainability.
- Increasing irrigation potential across 6,960+ hectares and benefiting 8,400+ tribal households by designed and installed 104 Community Lift Irrigation Schemes with 46+ Anicuts/ Check dams across Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
- Constructed 5000+ Water harvesting structures enhancing soil moisture, irrigation potential and ground water recharging.
- Delivered IEC, training and capacity building to watershed beneficiaries across 30 districts of Rajasthan over nearly two decades (2003–2020).
- Serves as Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning& Documentation (MELD) agency for 249 Integrated Watershed Management Projects (IWMP) covering 2.5 lakh hectares across 11 districts of the Jaipur and Udaipur divisions, using GIS, Remote Sensing, ArcGIS and geo-hydrological investigations.
- Operates grey-water treatment and water stabilisation ponds with 75,000-litre pond capacity and a 1, 50,000-litre collection tank, alongside native catchment plantation.
- Plantation of 2+million trees under agro-horti-forestry model on pature land/ wasteland/ panchayat land and farmer’s land.
- Piloting a 30,000-hectare carbon-credit afforestation initiative (24.6 million native plantations planned over 7 years), with VERRA project registration underway.
- Corporate Water Offsets in India through an Artificial Groundwater Recharge project in Delhi Hydro (Yamuna) Basin 5 to restore 400 million litres annually, combining hydrological modelling with community-led vegetation restoration.
- Implementation of Yamuna basin Water conservation and rejuvenation project in Eastern Rajasthan to Support irrigation and Ground Water recharging.
- Implementation of Godavari basin Water conservation and rejuvenation project in Nasik (Maharashtra) to Support irrigation and Ground Water recharge under “The Godavari Initiative”
- Strengthening Stakeholder Mobilisation for Natural Resource Management through Government/ Corporate/NABARD/CSR/other agencies convergence programs to achieve sustainability.
