Rajendra Singh, fondly called "Paani Baba" (waterman), is an acclaimed water conservationist. He is credited with bringing back water adequacy to villages, apart from fighting against illegal mining and taking up the cause of clean Ganga and Yamuna rivers.
Their attractive apparel often bearing a close resemblance to police uniforms is a mere euphemism for their low-status occupation on barely subsistence wages.
It may be recalled here that the Rs 892 crore Buxi Jagabandhu Assured Water Supply to Habitations (BASUDHA) water project had evoked angry protests across Kendrapara district for the past fortnight.
Singh was conferred with the Ramon Magsaysay award in 2001 and the Stockholm Water Prize, dubbed as the ‘Nobel Prize for Water’, in 2015 for his decentralised, community-oriented model of water conservation, recharging underground water bodies and reviving dead rivers. He spoke to SANJEEV KUMAR on a range of waterrelated issues.
We spent peanuts, yet results were miraculous to many.
An initial search by the Indian Coast Guard boarding party revealed 194 packets of suspected narcotic substance.
Water conservationist and environmentalist Rajendra Singh, popularly known as waterman of India, and Uttarakhand Congress vice president Jot Singh sat on a dharna after the AIIMS authorities refused the demand for keeping the body for public display.
Pointing out that simultaneous drought and floods in 13 states is creating a dangerous landscape in the country, Rajasthan’s waterman…
Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Deepak Babaria and Mohan Prakash, state Congress chief Arun Yadav and various other leaders from Madhya…
Rajasthan’s waterman Rajendra Singh on Tuesday called for ‘Water Literacy’ campaign in Himachal Pradesh to conserve the natural resource and…
