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Water has the power to move millions of people around the globe. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have traveled to settle close to it and moved away when they become overwhelmed by too much of it. Water is the basis for life and is essential for health and human dignity.

The total volume of water on the earth is about 1.4 billion km³. The total volume of freshwater resources is around 35 million km³, 2.5% of the total volume (UNEP). However, despite this, the total usable freshwater supply for ecosystems and humans is only about 200 000 km³ of water, less than 1% of all freshwater resources.

Today, one in two people live in a city, 93% of urbanization occurs in developing countries, and nearly 40% of the worlds urban expansion is growing slums. One in four city residents worldwide, 194 million in total, live without access to improved sanitation facilities, whilst 27% of the urban population in the developing world does not have piped water in its house (UNESCO).

These figures are rapidly becoming worse year on year and this is extremely unlikely to change until water is universally recognized as a limited resource, both in theory and in practice. To this end, Janhit Foundation has concentrated it's attentions on a variety of water resource projects, dealing with the provision of safe drinking water, large-scale industrial pollution and water conservation.

• Full details of all our water related projects

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

The environmental consequences of conventional, chemical intensive farming are no longer universally viewed as an acceptable method of production. The excessive use of pesticides has contributed to rapid degradation of land, the genetic homogenization of crops and the contamination of fresh water.

Organic, sustainable agriculture is both a realistic and necessary alternative to these practices. Worldwide there is now increasing evidence available to demonstrate that chemical based fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides are extremely harmful to human health. Conventional agriculture relies heavily on the input of toxic, agro-chemicals which enter the food supply, leach into water sources, harm livestock and wildlife, deplete the soil, destroy natural ecosystems, and contaminate the agricultural crop; for the benefit of which they are initially introduced. Organic production systems enriches the soil quality year on year, with land becoming increasingly fertile. For the farmer, this increases the long-term yield, the nutrient value and potency of their crops.

Janhit Foundation has been promoting organic agriculture as a viable alternative to conventional farming practices for the past eight years, during which farmers in Western Uttar Pradesh have benefitted from the effects of a sustainable approach to agricultural production.

• Full details of all our work on sustainable agriculture

Environmental Protection and Conservation.

Janhit Foundation is also involved in a variety of other environmental projects, dealing with issues such as air pollution, the degradation of ecological space, climate change mitigation and environmental education.