{"id":131064,"date":"2019-04-15T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=131064"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T09:12:10","slug":"determined-to-save-indias-water-supply-26-year-old-has-revived-10-lakes-from-a-polluted-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/04\/determined-to-save-indias-water-supply-26-year-old-has-revived-10-lakes-from-a-polluted-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Determined to Save India\u2019s Water Supply, 26-Year-old Has Revived 10 Lakes from a Polluted Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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26-year-old engineer Ramveer Tanwar could not bear to see his country\u2019s rivers and lakes plagued by drought and pollution \u2013 so he decided to do something about it. ScoopWhoop<\/p><\/div>\n

7 Apr 2019 – <\/em>Ramveer Tanwar had just been finishing up with his final year of university in 2013 when he became concerned over the state of his home village in\u00a0Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The region had experienced 13 droughts in just 15 years, and the local communities were suffering as a result.<\/p>\n

Even though many of the older villagers were oblivious to the seriousness of the situation, Tanwar felt compelled to take action and galvanized his younger peers to make a change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had been talking to the kids in the village back then and even they felt that they had to do something about the dying water resources,\u201d Tanwar told NDTV<\/a>. \u201cWhen they tried talking to their parents, the adults refused to believe that there could be any such thing as \u2018lack of water.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ramveer Tanwar – Times of India<\/p><\/div>\n

Tanwar began traveling from house to house in order to teach the residents about the critical condition of local water supplies. He recruited his fellow students to gather villagers together for weekly classes so they could discuss how to resuscitate their lakes and rivers.<\/p>\n

LOOK<\/em>:\u00a0This Simple Solution for Pollution Kept 815 Pounds of Trash Out of the Water\u2013Your City Can Do it Too<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Tanwar\u2019s teachings began to inspire more and more people, they collectively started hauling all of the trash out of their water supplies and planting tree saplings around the water\u2019s perimeter in order to protect the shoreline \u2013 and the trees are apparently still flourishing today.<\/p>\n

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Ramveer Tanwar, Lakes Revived – The Logical Indian<\/p><\/div>\n

In order to prevent any more trash from ending up in the water, Tanwar and his crew installed double water filtration systems made of wood and grass. He also urged local fish farmers to bring in aquatic bottom feeders so they could eat up the smaller bits of particle waste and keep the water clean.<\/p>\n

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Since Tanwar began his \u201cJal Chaupal\u201d clean-up efforts in India five years ago, he has helped to revive 10 lakes across the region, and his initiative has sparked conservation efforts in over 50 villages.<\/p>\n

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Ramveer Tanwar: Cleaning, teaching, acting proactively in Uttar Pradesh, India. Mind Blowing Facts<\/p><\/div>\n

Inspired by his success, the government of Uttar Pradesh launched separate \u201cGroundwater Army\u201d conservation groups in each district of the state \u2013 and they hired Tanwar as the program\u2019s coordinator.<\/p>\n

Since the government doesn\u2019t have much funding, Tanwar admits that he is often forced to pay out of pocket for various expenses and supplies for the program.<\/p>\n

He is also works 6 days a week from dusk till nighttime\u2014but he says that he doesn\u2019t mind the long hours or meager salary; he is simply excited to continue his conservation efforts so he can protect India\u2019s water.<\/p>\n

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Ramveer Tanwar brought together students and volunteers in his lake rejuvenation efforts. Dettol-NDTV Banega Swachh India<\/p><\/div>\n

Go to Original \u2013 goodnewsnetwork.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7 Apr 2019 – Ramveer Tanwar had just finished his final year at the university in 2013 when he became concerned about the state of Uttar Pradesh. The region had experienced 13 droughts in just 15 years, and the local communities were suffering. The 26-year-old engineer could not bear to see his country\u2019s rivers and lakes plagued by drought and pollution \u2013 so he decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":131065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,45,56,180,206],"tags":[229,239,331,401,759,444,894,380,75],"class_list":["post-131064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-brics","category-coops-cooperation-sharing","tag-activism","tag-brics","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-india","tag-nonviolence","tag-pollution","tag-solutions","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}