Paani Foundation, set up by Bollywood actor Aamir Khan, announced the second edition of ‘Satyamev Jayate Water Cup’, with an aim to extend the watershed management programme to 30 tehsils in Maharashtra.
In its first edition, the water conservative initiative under ‘Satyamev Jayate Water Cup’ had been implemented in three tehsils.
The Cup is a competition between different villages to see who can do the maximum work for watershed management and water conservation in the period of the competition. The competition period of the first edition of the Cup was between April 20 and June 5, 2016.
According to the foundation, 116 villages took part in the competition to make their villages water-sufficient and total water storage created by the competing villages was 13,68,000 litres of water.
“The first edition of water cup was a pilot project and with its success, we now want to extend the watershed management programme to 30 more talukas in Maharashtra to make the villages water-sufficient with people’s participation,” Aamir said.
