An observation report made by high-schoolers in rural Maharashtra, studying the impact of climate change and the water resources installed by them a year earlier. At the cusp of the monsoon in Kharajgaon, land had laid barren for months. The countryside was tense and farmers awaited rains. Too early and the crops would die, too late and they can’t be sold. Most farmers took multiple jobs during off-season to support their families. Navin, a farmer we worked with, forced his daughters to leave school to sustain their living costs. Promised prosperous yield, they adopted inorganic fertilisers and pesticides. “We know that chemicals harm the soil,” said Rakesh. “But what is long run? We are supporting our family this year, we’ll worry about those problems later.” Extracting a lot of groundwater has lowered the water table, productivity, soil health, and trigged soil degradation and erosion. Further, it has made the farmer’s dependent upon these city-sourced products, thus leaking the village economy.