{"id":7076,"date":"2026-03-24T10:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:26:57","slug":"the-art-of-slowing-rain-lessons-from-a-watershed-in-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/the-art-of-slowing-rain-lessons-from-a-watershed-in-madhya-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Slowing Rain: Lessons from a Watershed in Madhya Pradesh"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niwas block in Madhya Pradesh&#8217;s Mandla district receives more than 1,200 millimetres of rainfall every year, an amount that should, in theory, sustain farming across seasons. Located in the eastern reaches of the state, Niwas falls under the Northern Hills of Chhattisgarh Sub-Agro Climatic Zone, a landscape of light alfisol soils that struggle to hold water and are easily worn away by rain. The land here does not lack rain. What it lacks is the ability to hold it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pradan.net\/sampark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}