Yesterday I participated in a very hopeful Zoom call. It was about how ordinary people in India’s driest state, Rajasthan, restored water to their dried-out lands.

The guest was Miini Jain, director of operations for The Flow Partnership, and she introduced us to the pioneering work of Dr. Rajenda Singh, who has won the Stockholm Water Prize (2015) and the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2001) for working with the people of Rajasthan to bring their villages back to life by restoring the water cycle.

The thing is that you really need to see the change, not just read about it.