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Fashioning change
Water improves agriculture. Agriculture improves animal husbandry.
People begin to take care of their watershed, which means more trees
and forests. With watershed development, prosperity beckons.
Going beyond water is a philosophy and a practice. Some have gone
beyond water to alleviating, actually eradicating, rural poverty.
They have dared to traverse the path from ecological regeneration
to economic miracle, from water to wealth.
Those with this water vision overwhelmingly
belong to civil society.
All of them have developed watersheds as a platform for social change.
Quietly at work
Taking forward the work of these pioneers are those invisible rural
engineers who don't go to Indian Institutes of Technology to try and
do quantum physics, or genome or defense research in the US for the
US.
These rural engineers prefer to find ways to better harvest the
rain. And so fashion local ecological and social change.
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