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One man's initiative ensures water-security in drought regions [1]

M.J. PRABU

Planting lakhs of trees, designing hundreds of check dams, and evolving new techniques of irrigating tree saplings in dry regions are feats of an out-of-the-box thinker named Mr. Premjibhai Patel, Rajkot, Gujarat.

Mr. Patel's tree planting efforts first started from Rajkot, but soon spread to states such as Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Ecological restoration

Publication Date: 
24/06/2010
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Ecology [3], Water Conservation [4], Check Dam [5], Irrigation [6], Gujarat [7], Madhya Pradesh [8], Maharashtra [9], Hindu (New Delhi) [2]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecology
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-conservation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/check-dam
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/irrigation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gujarat
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/madhya-pradesh
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/maharashtra