Reliance Foundation’s #Water4Life Campaign Mobilizes 33,000 Volunteers Across India for Water Conservation Efforts

by SAH Staff Reporter April 3, 2026

By SAH Staff Reporter April 3, 2026 0 comments 3 minutes read

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Reliance Foundation has mobilized more than 33,000 volunteers from across India under its nationwide #Water4Life campaign, launched in connection with World Water Day 2026. The initiative brings together communities across the country to support water conservation and ecosystem restoration efforts.

According to a statement issued by Reliance Foundation, the campaign is designed as an ongoing effort to “protect, restore, and sustain” India’s water ecosystems.

“Over past 10 days Reliance Foundation has led community volunteering efforts in over 1,400 waterbody locations across 912 villages,” the statement noted. “On-ground clean-up actions were combined with long-term water governance and community ownership, engaging farmers, women’s groups, youth, local institutions, Reliance employee volunteers, healthcare providers and more.”

The Foundation highlighted that the #Water4Life initiative builds on its long-standing Rural Transformation work spanning more than 91,000 villages, where water resources play a critical role in supporting livelihoods. To date, its water conservation efforts have enabled the harvesting of over 2,000 lakh cubic meters of water, benefiting millions of rural residents. The campaign is envisioned as a “long-term, participatory movement” contributing to national water security.

The initiative also included pre-World Water Day awareness activities, with participation from government bodies and local institutions. These efforts focused on “community mobilization, volunteerism, awareness on waste reduction and water literacy,” using approaches designed for easy replication.

Over recent days, volunteers have carried out clean-up operations, removing plastic and solid waste, ensuring segregation and safe disposal, and restoring inlet and outlet channels to improve water flow. These activities were complemented by coordinated soil and water conservation efforts in collaboration with local institutions and government agencies.

“Across 108 districts in 15 states and 1 Union Territory, over 85,000 kg of waste was collected,” the statement added. “Some prominent locations that were part of efforts over the past few days included the Narmada River ghats, Dipeswar Talab in the heart of Pratapgarh, Kulbehra tributary of the Godavari basin, the Kochi Beach, Rankala Lake and more.”

The campaign has seen participation from a broad cross-section of society. In southern Kerala, fishing communities and municipal sanitation workers jointly undertook clean-up efforts at Kochi Beach in Ernakulam district.

“In Belagavi, Karnataka, school children came together to demonstrate early ownership of water conservation, while in Sangli, Maharashtra, health workers initiated cleaning the ghats of the Swami Samarth stream, a tributary of the Krishna River,” the statement said.

The initiative is also supported by approximately 2,500 Village Climate Champions trained by Reliance Foundation to raise awareness and promote local action on water and waste management. Moving forward, the Foundation noted that the community-driven campaign seeks to ensure the sustained protection and restoration of water bodies across the country.