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The Groundwater Table
The hundreds of indigenous trees and plants planted on the property help maintain the groundwater table at healthy levels, the quiet, unglamorous work that decides whether a dry deciduous forest holds through May.
In a dry deciduous forest, what holds water through May decides what lives here and what moves out.
Sariska is tropical dry deciduous and tropical dry thorn forest. By mid-summer the leaves have fallen and the jungle has taken on an overall ashy brown appearance. What holds through that stretch (in the ground, in the depressions among the boulders, in the waterholes) decides what lives here and what moves out.
Reducing our own consumption is the part we control directly.
Water
Below the ground, inside the rooms, and out among the rocks where the animals actually drink.
The hundreds of indigenous trees and plants planted on the property help maintain the groundwater table at healthy levels, the quiet, unglamorous work that decides whether a dry deciduous forest holds through May.
We avoid the use of plastic bottles, and all rooms are provided with reverse osmosis filtered water in glass bottles. Every accommodation runs solar-power heated water. Linens and towels are changed on request only, to reduce consumption.
The narrow passages and naturally formed depressions among the boulders provide optimal water-storing spots for the animals and birds that inhabit them. During monsoon and post-monsoon these fill, and the passages carry slow-flowing streams.
Waste & Water
Waste management is one of the greatest challenges for the 21st century. At Utsav Camp Sariska we avoid the use of plastic bottles and all rooms are provided with reverse osmosis filtered water in glass bottles. All our trash is segregated, and we compost all biodegradable waste. Guests help us to reduce non-biodegradable waste by not carrying disposable plastic bottles or packaged food in plastic pouches or bags.