We arrived in Rapar on 12 June with 140 households, a barefoot engineer and a hill of stone. The gram sabha had already marked the nala, the MGNREGA mates had booked labour, and the sarpanch had whitewashed a wall outside the panchayat for public accounts.
₹0.38 per litre
Each structure's cost, labour and capacity were painted on that wall and photographed after every monsoon. The first three dams filled in 11 hours on 4 July. By 22 July, 47 villages were reporting overflow.
The diary includes daily labour logs, water-level photographs and social audit minutes — all scanned and filed.