Problem Solving

Turning Off the Tap on Waste: What years of river work taught me about prevention

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Mission City Chakra presents a scalable, upstream model that prevents waste at source by working with schools, institutions, workplaces, and system influencers. From Cleaning Rivers to Turning Off the Tap on Waste I co-founded Jeevitnadi in 2014 with a simple but urgent concern: our rivers were choking on garbage. During our work on river stretches, …

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How a Community Brought a Dead Stream Back to Life — One Sunday at a Time

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Discover how a simple, low-cost, community-led wetland restoration project at Vitthalwadi revived freshwater flow in the Mutha riverbed. A replicable model based on systems thinking, ecological principles, and citizen action. By Aditi, the initiator of ‘Adopt a River Stretch Program, Jeevitnadi’ If you ever want to understand how cities slowly lose their rivers, don’t look …

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