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Dhola thare desh main, moti Marvan Aant Daroo Milti Mokali Paani ki Nahin Chhant Oh, Beloved! In your land it is tough for brides due to perennial scarcity of water.Thus laments a new bride. And Aakash Ganga, River from Sky, was born to alleviate the perennial scarcity of drinking water by harvesting domestic rainwater. In subsequent years, Sustainable Innovations and its partners perfected Aakash Ganga to be holistically sustainable ― economically, culturally, organizationally, socially, technologically, operationally and environmentally, for example. Journey: During 2003 - 2008, Aakash Ganga (AG) journeyed through experimentation, incubation, and pilots. In July 2003, the Rajasthan Association of North America (RANA) provided the seed capital to launch Aakash Ganga. In 2006, AG won the World Bank's Development Marketplace Award in its global competition. Same Year, National Science Foundation, intrigued by AG's holistic design, gave a grant to University of Virginia to research AG's capacity for scaling. In 2007, the Indian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) encouraged Sustainable Innovations to submit a plan for implementing AG in the "dark zone" of Rajasthan. Now, the 100-village plan is being evaluated for implementation as a public-private-community partnership (PPCP) or social enterprise by 2011 - 2012. Accomplishments: - Implemented Aakash Ganga in 6 villages (Lasedi, Kakreu Kalan, Harinagar, Indrasar, Raila, and Pilani) to provide drinking water to 10,000 people | Village | Tanka | Shared Tanka | | Lasedi | 56 | 1 | | Kakreu Kalan | 43 | 2 | | Harinagar | 19 | 1 | | Total | 118
| 4 | - Concluded an MOU with the Government of Rajasthan for 50-village implementation providing drinking water to 125,000 people for generations, in perpetuity. - Developed a two-tier social enterprise model ensuring flow of capital, management, and technology to villages. Full cost Recovery - AG is self-sustainable economically, culturally, organizationally, technologically. - Set up a repository for data gathering (water utilization, monitoring) and knowledge dissemination - Built capacity for large scale implementation of AG in both rural and urban areas Video
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