{"id":10539,"date":"2026-02-26T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:42:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:42:02","slug":"indian-environmentalist-restores-water-bodies-and-ancient-stepwells-to-safeguard-heritage-and-future-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/indian-environmentalist-restores-water-bodies-and-ancient-stepwells-to-safeguard-heritage-and-future-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian environmentalist restores water bodies and ancient stepwells to safeguard heritage and future water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian environmentalist has revived 657 water bodies and is now turning his focus to ancient stepwells &#8211; intricately carved, terraced reservoirs that once stored groundwater for communities. Arun Krishnamurthy and the Environmentalist Foundation of India are restoring these historic structures, blending traditional knowledge with modern conservation to secure water for future generations while honoring India\u2019s cultural heritage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/climate\/india-water-crisis-stepwell-restoration-arun-krishnamurthy-c2e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He brought over 600 water bodies back to life. His next mission: saving India\u2019s vanishing stepwells | CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian environmentalist has revived 657 water bodies and is now turning his focus to ancient stepwells &#8211; intricately carved, terraced reservoirs that once stored groundwater for communities. Arun Krishnamurthy and the Environmentalist Foundation of India are restoring these historic structures, blending traditional knowledge with modern conservation to secure water for future generations while honoring&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":10540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10542,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sympraxis.eu\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}