GENIUS Water Engineering Restored

[@RustyDustyCrusty]

One thing is clear after watching all these videos, when people take control of their land, their communities start prospering.

[@knottytoob]

Si senor! Au contraire nothin rusty, dusty or crusty 'bout your comment.

[@starrmont4981]

Nah fam, that's socialism. Can't have that. /s

[@wildfoodsaregood]

yeah cz the govt destroyed agriculture intentionally.....fuck hybrid crops which take more water and have a weak immune system

[@kovaikulangalpadhukappuama8535]

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[@jaysmith6969]

I love coimbatore.. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Raj-yr9gt]

Given all the terrible things happening in the world right now, it was so wonderful to see human beings doing something so amazing and positive. The fact that I live in Tamil Nadu , where this video was shot, was icing on the cake! 😊

[@wildfoodsaregood]

Tamil nadu is heavenly except chennai which is a hellhole I wish i could learn tamil cz it's a great language but too difficult

[@mamaajay]

Wonderful transformation!❤❤

[@ArunKumar_Is_Me]

​@@wildfoodsaregoodwhy did you feel like that?😅

[@4ray]

And I live in Oregon and was born in Coimbatore 😊

[@HOG1070]

Absolutely it's so heart warming. Very positive video. I did watch a few, and that felt really good.

[@AmalJoy07]

I am from kerala, I truly happy to see my brother (thamil makkal) making so much prosperity and enjoying their lives great achievement we need to follow you on many things

[@waltherrathenau7716]

It's great to see that young guy who established the NGO. He is pure farmer and he was very humble in whole video . May be he might speak only Tamil . But I would love to see his work being recognized and receive national awards

[@amillison]

He actually has received a prestigious national award from the government for him s excellent work

[@Mojo_3.14]

It's amazing how quickly everything improved and that they started through volunteers and no funding.

[@Flickifi]

...with the added benefit that it brings people and communities together.

[@aravindhrajgowda2446]

In karnataka many politicians spreading rumors that all the Cauvery waters which was sent to TN was directly went to the sea, but they do not know these huge water management systems in these areas.

[@mohanm6447]

Have a look on his previous video to know the Cauvery Delta region and the water management.

[@Drugvigil]

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[@silvarajoomuniandy4316]

Carnataka will run dry soon by some earth movement.

so lazy, greedy, entitled politiicians who are too dumb to ask for an engineering report to study the system so they can implement a policy to do THEIR DUTY. why help the local citizens when they can steal tax money and live a lavish lifestyle.

[@prasvasu4217]

Thesr were built by Chola raja, not Stalin Comerade.

[@joy4ki]

It's amazing how ancient cultures had water management figured out. Uncovering these systems, reviving & sharing knowledge is a vital cog in dealing with climate chamge.

[@sutapasbhattacharya9471]

India's first civilization, the Saraswati-Indus (aka Harappan) from 5,000 years ago had amazing water management systems if you look it up on YT. I briefly mentioned these far less ancient South Indian irrigation systems (see below) in my 2015 work on the synthesis of science and spirituality - which shows how ancient Indian knowledge of metaphysics (Vedanta-Tantra) is going to form the basis of the new Post-Materialist Science based on the Primacy of Consciousness [as many US scientists who have studied Consciousness-related phenomena and UAP etc. In fact eco-philosophers are beginning understand the need to reverse the false despiritualization by abstraction of Nature by modern Western science - which led to today's false Materialism - through its Christian and Galilean myths. "Indian Christian proselytizer (linked to US and UK Evangelist groups) Vishal Mangalwadi regurgitates the self-justifying lies invented by the British colonial parasites that, due to Hindu superstitions, India had been mired in abject poverty for millennia, before the altruistic British Christians came to the rescue. For instance, Mangalwadi makes out that Indians did not know how to build irrigation canals before the British came when in fact, one of Mangalwadi’s Evangelist heroes, Charles Trevelyan, had written of the remarkable ancient irrigation schemes of the Hindus still functioning in South India. British invasions of Indian states, followed by the British looting Indian treasuries, deindustrialization and creation of famines by ‘bloodsucking’ the peasantry had led to many of the old schemes falling into ruin. Mangalwadi even writes: The Herculean efforts to free India from her poverty were Christian efforts,... ...Philip Mason’s popular book, The Men Who Ruled India, identifies that [Christian Evangelist] Sir Richard Temple ... as a man of tremendous vision and ceaseless action,... In fact Richard Temple, acting for Benjamin Disraeli’s hand-picked henchman Viceroy Lytton, forced Indian victims of the 1877 famine inflicted upon them by British ‘Let-them-starve’ policies, to travel for miles to do hard labour for smaller rations (including flour diluted with dirt) than Nazis gave to their Death Camp inmates in Buchenwald (not all Nazi Death Camps used gas chambers). As a conquered nation, India must pay tribute, stated Disraeli whilst he Marquis of Salisbury, India Secretary in 1875 had written that “India must be bled”. The British covered-up the 94% mortality rates in such ‘Death Camps’. Simultaneously, Disraeli’s regime forced India to export record amounts of foodgrains to provide British and other Europeans with cheap food. In 1877, whilst millions of Indians starved, Lytton, organised the biggest feast in human history in Delhi to celebrate Disraeli’s gesture of giving Victoria Saxe-Coburg the grand title ‘Empress of India’. "

[@valentynzadoiannyi5652]

Andrew spends so much time in India that he started nodding in the same way as locals! Thanks for video!

[@sanjayr7977]

I noticed that too.🤣

[@ramachandranswaminathan1945]

Tamilnadu had about 45000 connected water bodies. Each village had 2 water bodies one to receive water and to collect over flow. Over flow of one village is receiver for next village. All these water bodied were maintained by local people till Britishers came. Then degradation happened. Niw only locals are taking interest and restoring the water bodies. Tamil has about 40 words to denote water bodies.

[@GowthamV07]

Also our governement only know how to occopy water body land and sell it as real estate.

[@Nomad97249]

I have seen water bodies in villages upto year 2000 But beyond which development kicked in

[@007vissa]

What about the pollution, plastic trash and pesticide run off from all that farms thats going into these lakes? Now that they are all getting connected, contamination in one lake will reach others as well. In chola times everything was organic and there was no industrial or plastic pollution

[@lamdao1242]

I think the British colonists didn’t help India But you cannot blame the British for: (1) the plastic and other trash that made its way to the ponds and lakes in the last 5 decades (2) the way manufacturers build their factories with Zero regard for the environment and dumping of their waste produces (3) the corruption in the Indian civil service and political class which enables bad laws to be promulgated and allows bad behaviour to be ignored without any consequences because - bribes and corruption!

[@pikachue602]

​@@lamdao1242 j agree with all your points but .....mmm ... The thing Brits Raj started is being given a furnishing by present day civil bodies and us civilians our selves.. For eg.. In ahom dynasty, the sworgonarayon chakradha singh DEO started paik system where every glass be it merchants,scholars,soldiers, aristocrats,priests,pilgrims etc. Must give 2-3 year service in army and 5 year in maintaining the wetlands near the bramhaputro river as it is a very high current aggressive one it has been continuously engulfing the river banks increasing its water territory , and other process were dams from present day odisha ie. Kalinga kingdom ... Other techniques from Viet ,Thai,burmese nations as they were closes to them and have the similar geography.. and it was a success but after the Brits crown's arrival things changed now the river has gone to its extreme and rapidly eating the banks... Ahoms were once the rulers of river and had quite a good maritime warfare skills through which they kept the nawabs of Bengal and mughal dynasty away..

[@shivsagarpm2593]

As a Tamilian, it is very emotional video😭. I hope this organisation get support and continue to thrive❣❣

[@KarthikKeyankkk]

We people of Coimbatore won't let them down , will do the enough support.

[@Tadeoska]

I believe that a true Indian revivalism must be to restore all the pre-Colonials infrastructure that existed!

[@puraLusa]

U don't need to be a true of fake indian (whatever that is) to see the benefit or restauring these infrastructures 😂

[@SahilSura-yq4ds]

Not precolonial u could say pre Islamic as the muslim invaders destroyed a lot more than the British

[@madoxxxx06]

Not everything ancient is good or beneficial, take the good and promote it and leave the bad in the past.

[@ogathingo8885]

Yes Modern India has to rediscover the wisdom of ancient Bharat and combine them with modern green technology to build a sustainable future!

[@UpperCutZX10]

Careful, that's a nuanced topic. Yes there is much to re-do, but taking a naive, oversimplified cartoon approach would create a whole new set of problems that would now have your name on them.

[@peterrutsa]

All the volunteers are SUPER HEROES! Respect and admiration from Nagaland.

[@AbdulDsouza]

They are people who deserve Padma awards?

[@soumaSR]

​@@AbdulDsouzaDefinitely far more than useless politicians and actors

[@novampires223]

You could make posters of your artwork Andrew, sell them through your videos. They are so beautiful I almost cry when you erase them..😢 love your videos!

[@aponraj1]

Proud of KKPA volunteers team.

[@bawselife6859]

I was tearing up in the end sharing gifts ..makes me so happy .. people doing good for earth no $$$ gains but huge emotional and satisfaction gains .. love this

[@praveen0083]

Coimbatore people have a sense of community. Have heard about these groups like Thulir for the last 5 years. Long live these groups. We miss enthusiastic people like them in Chennai - huge lakes have been turned into dump yards and encroached by property developers. Chennai is hopeless . But still there is hope & time for coimbatore- don’t make or allow the same mistake of mindless urbanisation.

[@CATSFOREVER308]

Bravo,as an Indian I feel so proud and happy to see people taking responsibility for their actions which destroy the environment,and are doing good things like planting trees,cleaning up all the garbage that cause pollution to the rivers.God bless them.If more people did this,we could clean up our country.

[@mirrorflame1988]

Incredible! Same is being done in Salem too! They have revived two lakes using volunteers and charitable donations! The change is incredible! This should be replicated around the world! For a green blue beautiful world!!

[@rajneel3608]

which lakes in salem

[@jonschaffer4410]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@amillison]

Thanks Jon. I appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏

[@kellerhorton]

Thank you so much for this wonderful series. I have 40 acres in the Mojave desert where I'm starting a food forest.

[@Val-fi9hg]

Me too but only on a heavy half acre at 4300 feet. Figuring out which trees , plants work best for my area. Even my tiny swales have kept water on the property during monsoon .

[@iamalphalim]

I’m envious I want to build a naturally self-sustaining homestead one day

[@nsn5564]

Absolutely amazing. I remember some decades ago horrifying dystopian articles about how India had very little water left in its aquifers, and the coming devastation. At the time, it seemed like recharging the aquifers wasn't a possibility.

[@zenclimber]

Just awesome! Love that all these places in India are being rebuilt by the whole community in the area.

[@memespocalypes]

India is the true definition of a functional community!

[@xikano8573]

I'm so inspired, I'm in tears. Thank you for sharing this amazing work with us, Andrew. 👏🏽

[@nandhakumar1949]

❤ Proud of kkpa volunteers team . Thank you very much for compiling and documenting it.

[@spidrespidre]

Another heartwarming episode. And loved the gifts at the end - so cool that the beaver is your mascot. I live in the UK where over the last 3-5 years we've started having beaver trials to reintroduce them after missing them for 400 years. Keep up the fantastic work

[@themosthip]

This video was very sweet, love to see someone learning so intently from other cultures in earnest and straight from the source. Also always happy to see my home region of Tamil Nadu!

[@saraschoudhary137]

Gods work Andrew in highlighting real champs who take up massive human coordination problems without any major personal incentives.

[@ssrinidhi4629]

ooh. my geography text books didn't speak about it. whenever i saw it on the map, i thought that it was natural delta. people spoke to me about the water management in Netherlands, but didn't tell the greatness of my country which has withstood the test of time without harming the nature. feel proud and sad at the same time...

[@aadithyasangani717]

your geography didn't taught you because the king was Hindu,what ever great things done by Hindus were not taught in Indian text books ,it because indian first educational minister was a Moulana ,we studied only about invaders as they are great

[@aleks-lj9yq]

@@aadithyasangani717Or because it's a geography text book and not history.

[@NoRiceToEat]

@@aleks-lj9yqeven the history textbooks doesn’t explains it and just so you know geography books do give history sometimes when it comes to historical water management systems. But our education system is very colonial still.

[@KomalJogi-d8o]

Exactly, Ncert never teaches about Chola kingdom

[@KomalJogi-d8o]

​@@aleks-lj9yqor because it's intentionally done?

[@deepakusingh]

Cholas were great administrators and visionaries.

[@farangfarm]

Thank you for these videos. They were part of the inspiration for our lake in Thailand.

[@sanirudha]

Feel so proud of the prospering community culture in Tamil Nadu, all of India should learn and work to adopt a sustainable lifestyle.

[@kaustubhjoshi15]

Incredible work by Mr Manikandan and his team, this itself deserves a national award of somekind and idea must disseminate through all beautocrats in their jurisdiction to rejuvenate local water bodies.

[@CharlesGann1]

Thank you Andrew for highlighting this amazing work in India. So many incredible recent and decades as well as centuries old water harvesting. Its amazing to see the short time frame of these projects transforming everyday peoples lives. Appreciate this encouragement from all the projects we've seenin through houror lens.

[@TheNightwalker247]

So cool to see people wake up to the real wealth.

[@hashkeeper]

bar-none, hands down, this is my favorite channel. thank you for your amazing work

[@paadipanta2607]

Wow, 30,000 volunteers, good people. Good to see the restoration and desilting activity which is the duty of Govt, but busy with politics and corruption. Great video to watch among war torn nations.

[@Anon13100]

Mr. Millison, you have really acquired an aura of a sithar (saint) with your exemplary dedication to permaculture and ecology. Thank you for your service.

[@jenniferbrown7659]

Aloha! We all are drops of ancient water. This video demonstrates, we are all connected to nature. I AM tears of joy while watching this. Asante 🌄🌍🌙

[@selwinpandinadan7540]

Thank U guys for being professional role model for everyone else.

[@kbalanandam]

Water is an essential resource for any living organism on this earth. Ancient people clearly recognized this. But, people in so-called modern society are not much interested in it due to various reasons. It is a privilege to have a team like Kovai Kulangal Padukappu Amaippu. But, it is not only an individual or group job. Everyone should participate. Hopefully this will inspire more, many people will come forward and many lakes or ponds will be restored in the future.

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

Tamil Nadu is really blessed with having large swaths of lands. Here in their neighbouring tiny state, the biggest and a very unusual threat to water bodies that recharge groundwater is real estate; the high popualtion density and urbanization in this tiny state is causing so much land encorachment on banks or rivers, backwaters and lakes. The only saving grace is the restoration and preservation of traditional ponds. A requirement to teach school kids swimming has somehow gave an insentive to maintain these ponds in a highly urbanized non-farming communities

[@Anon13100]

Tamil Nadu also lost large swaths of land to neighbouring states when states were reorganized. Tamils always have high regards and fondness for the people of Kerala, the Chera part of ancient Thamizhagam. Kerala is truly God's own country and Malayalis' pride for their land, language, and culture will surely help overcome the threat you have highlighted.

[@kddraco333]

​@@Anon13100which god's own country bruh?? Allah? Jesus? Sivan?

[@emilianomarquez1629]

This is beautiful work, both narratively and the history of the Cholas and the descendants themselves. Restauring a way of life completely. Loved the endscene.

[@edivaughan1746]

Another inspiring video. Thank you all very much.

[@beautydoctorcardiff]

it is so heartening to see the amazing grassroot revolution in permaculture happening in India, I am indebted to you Andrew for bringing this to the attention of the world many many thanks

[@wireycoyote3544]

Absolutely inspiring stuff

[@GrumblingGrognard]

I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Chennai and Coimbatore during that drought. WONDERFUL city, wonderful people. Unable to travel much as I was working in IT and in "conferences" all the time... TOTALLY unaware of these lakes and their impact. Would love to get back and travel/visit again.

[@anuvalenteenakrishnan7241]

Glad the works of siruthuli is spreading out. They habe done awesome work towards improving the waterbodies creating new ones and enhancing green cover in and around coimbatore with dense forests. 😍

[@want2behere]

Good work by the team of volunteers in restoring the ancient flow of water. Hope this learning is shared with the governments of india and the southern states thereby reducing the fights for the cauvery between the different states.

[@miriammcfarlane6972]

Yes, honking is needed! "Horn OK Please" amused me on the back of trucks in Gujarat and Rajasthan. P.s., I'm enjoying this series of videos... thank you.

[@sikander588]

Memories of my youth as a student in the wonderful city that is Kovai, coimbatore came flooding back. Will visit soon to see for myself this magical transformation.🎉

[@RizeTB1]

It feels so good to see such impactful work. I breathe a sigh of relief when I watch these videos.

[@jalbu8330]

How wonderful for those communities to restore the systems and practices their ancestors had put in place. Thanks for the story, gives me hope. 😊

[@washibonsai5307]

Andrew your work is so inspiring!! Thank you ❤ without you a lot people would miss these seeds of positivity. Greetings from the Dubais desert. Martin

[@drvishalsreenivasan3870]

Wonderfully presented and beautiful places visited

[@GloryDaze73]

This is so inspiring! ❤❤❤So wonderful to see people helping Mother nature ❤❤❤

[@DavidRose-m8s]

What I see is lots of people involved working with, and improving their watershed, and paying homage to past visionary's. You can fix the world by everyone working to help their own watershed not just for people but by incorporating, and Shepherding the land, and habitat systems for diverse nature. Human Beavers being a keystone species once the respect comes back.

[@peacelove1058]

beautiful . The World needs more of these self sufficient eco systems to promote natural energies

[@JorgeLausell]

I'm just spinning up a research project on the use of large bore tunnels in network dig into arid areas that have sudden rainfalls. Set up Swales integrated with moisture harvesting to act as sponges & drains. What would it take to transform the Levant?

[@Kaczyfunny]

Beautifull. I wish everybody apply this philosophy on the world.

[@srv232]

Dr. Millison, thank you for creating awareness. You are doing a very important job here of educating the masses about how encroachments have or are still destroying farms and farmers.

[@pongop]

Amazing and inspiring! I love these stories from India! And it's true about the honking!

[@AG-ey1ez]

this content makes me v. happy .. small steps to make the world a better place.

[@nazimbaluch6020]

Excellent restoration work; very inspiring.

[@HariKSamineni]

I was a great fan of Clarkson Farming series in UK but this is awesome, unbelievable, pure will power, perseverance and commitment to Mother nature. I salute you guys. Will find and great job.

[@funvids5592]

So instead of marching, protesting, and causing difficulties for others these people took matters into their own hands.

[@Dancerlil]

It's videos like these that help restore my faith in humanity. Thank you for all you & others are doing to bring back this beautiful planet to it's original splendor. Love & blessings to you & all. Liliane

[@benjamindovinh3684]

The ROI on such projects like this must be huge. Can you imagine how many generations of people will be positively impacted by this work? Truly, as long as we improve our ideas and our execution, and we get the right people together in a room - or on a call - together, we can do anything.

[@hariganesh9841]

Great work by the team.. Excellent video for greater understanding.. appreciation to all the volunteers who have contributed for the betterment of the works.. kudos to the NGO.. Many more NGOs are working on the same such projects.. kovai is blessed with socially responsible NGOs and more volunteers.

[@douglachman7330]

Congratulations to the smart thinking hard working people combining to achieve such worthy goals. I hope the entire project gets completed for widespread benefit.

[@nathanwall8169]

A new age of agriculture is emerging . The permaculture age has begun . i remember this kind of stuff was fiction at one point and now you cant go anywere and talk about agriculture without paying homage to permaculture . love&peace

[@bprmel]

Brilliant work Andrew 👏

[@krishnasai1232]

Very admirable work

[@Lord.Dakshinamurthy]

Thank you proff for taking up my invitation to my kingdom... :)🔱 And a special thanks go the data visualization by mr.shubo ( data is beautiful when you see the big picture ) and the ground work done by Mr.murugan and his team (even more beautiful ) I hope you make more videos across the world .....and your university promotes thesis courses to explore the worlds water conservation ecosystems.... Good Karma 👁️🔱👁️

[@saiprayastha7141]

All this good things happened 1000 year's ago.. and now we are struggling to learn and repeat

[@GowthamV07]

Colonial mindset right from our education system, We are taught that british and mughals were the ones who taught india civilization.

[@raxo1997]

We need more projects and more communities working together like this! Amazing! ❤

[@budgiefriend]

Nice to see something positive for a change. Thank you India.

[@HeartOScience]

This is amazing. Inspirational! Together we can change the world for better. Thank you ❤❤❤❤!

[@rethinamrethina2654]

What a wonderful work Andrew... Your great hardwork appreciated..keep on finding out the special amazing works ...thank you very much. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@cathy6508]

Well done Andrew for showing us the wisdom of these people, reconnecting to mother earth via the wisdom of their Ancient's civilizations. Revitalizing these ponds all so makes this area drought resistant.

[@sridhar7258]

Andrew is great human being..love from India ❤

[@macdelttorres3366]

Great to see that ancient humans knew more about ecology than us.

[@bkrishnaprasadshetty9015]

This is a great movement towards self realization and understanding of nature and conservation

[@MrAnanthaP]

For the viewers: Mr. Manikantan. KOVAI KULANGAL PADHUKAAPPU AMAIPPU. (KKPA). கோவை கலங்கலள் பாதுகாப்பு அமைப்பு. Means. Kovai (short form for Coimbatore) Kulangal (water bodies) Paadhukaappu (preservation or safe keeping) Amaippu (organisation). Ok?

[@lamdao1242]

Thank you for the translation

[@CarbonSynergyDesign]

Yet again an amazing video: I hope this channel gets yet way more famous so it can reach the decision makers of even more communities! This channel really shows the potential of social media in creating a common knowledge base that can inspire positive change! Also it’s so nice to see innovation throughout very different countries

[@brianvittachi6869]

This is forgotten knowledge, now rediscovered, that is going to benefit the people far into the future.

[@iamalphalim]

It’s amazing how the ancients built those magnificent infrastructure manually!

[@IO-zz2xy]

One thing stands out from this, very little government interference, the people run these projects themselves without restrictions or legal barriers. Perhaps the citizens of the US need to push back more against Government oppression and dictates. Regards from South Africa

[@julzrouge369]

Amazing what humans can achieve together. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Nithiya123]

Feel good to see this kind of initiative ❤ more people should follow this

[@shreeyoga]

Very inspiring, I would definitely want to join one of these organization

[@sanjayr7977]

Keep this up and India will once again be the most amazing nation on the face of this planet.

[@jaskaran-ll3xk]

i just love how when indian people are introduced in the video they join their hands in respect.

[@vandanananwani6658]

You people have done a great job 👍👍 Hatt's off to you all who've given their contribution 🙏🙏

[@Prasannakumar-cu4tn]

Congratulations to the team worked to restore and huge thanks for documenting it 🎉

[@TheBambiAssist]

So good to see! These guys understand! Thanks for your work Andrew!! 🌊🌿

[@karthik7486]

This just shows that it’s not hard to revive or save our water bodies. You don’t need Illinois or billions. All you need is honesty and sincerity. If just a grp of volunteers could bring this much change, imagine how much difference a govt can bring with all the money and resources available to it. Just amazing

[@ramanetisuresh1548]

Thanks a lot for your coverage my thanks and love goes out to you and your team,I don't think so the Indian mainstream media has hardly any time to cover all these local growth stories . People forget that nothing is built in a day and life was built brick by brick.The politicians want all the credit without putting or acknowledging any local work.

[@kiranpatel5204]

thank you Andrew for making this video and many more you share, I just love watching them , all the people in your videos look so happy

[@threeriversforge1997]

The funny part is that you see this same thing happening all around the world. Folks turn their backs on their heritage and culture because they listened to the snakes in the grass promising something newer/shinier/better, and in no time at all.... the knowledge that kept things going relatively smoothly is lost. Then generations have to suffer for it. You see exactly this happening in Europe right now as they scramble to rebuild their hedgerows after they tore them out in the 50's. Only now, after decades of loss, are they seeing the damage done due to erosion and habitat loss. But, if you had tried to explain to them back then, they'd have fought you tooth and nail because their eyes were filled with the promised splendor just around the bend. It's always a promised splendor that never seems to show up, but the pain sure does. And that's just one example.