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of how collective action can been possible with villagers’
turn water scarcity into water active participation. Before the
security. As informed by the Block installation of the harvesting
Development Officer of Jampui structures, villagers had to walk
Hills, R.D. Block, North Tripura, 4-5 kms to reach the local water
Mr Debabrata Roy, Vanghmun bodies to fetch water for their
village is the only village in the daily use. Women and children
entire Northeastern region with suffered the most. But now, the
100 per cent rooftop rainwater village has become a ‘water-
harvesting structures. This has sufficient village’. The BDO shared,
”With the help of Vanghmun
village committee, we conducted
a survey and found that 58 per
cent of the houses had a proper
rainwater harvesting structure;
22 per cent had no structures at
all; and the rest of the houses
had poor and weak structures.
We ran awareness campaigns
with regular meetings with the
villagers, and by the end of July
2025 were able to achieve the 100
per cent installations.”

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