In a part of Gujarat where summers can stretch water supplies thin, forests are doing a job usually reserved for dams and reservoirs. Over the past five years, the Surat Forest Division has conserved nearly 580 crore litres of water, building a storage capacity of about 5.83 million cubic metres. The impact is enough to support the annual water needs of roughly 40,000 villages. This is the result of a systematic approach that treats forests as l…
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