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Dr. Rajendra Singh is a well-known water conservationist from Alwar district, Rajasthan in India. Also known as waterman of India, he won the Stockholm Water Prize, an award known as the Nobel Prize for water, in 2015. Previously, he won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 2001 for his pioneering work in community-based efforts in water harvesting and water management. He runs an NGOcalled Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO based in vil hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi tehsil, near Sariska Tiger Reserve, has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area as it lies close to Thar Desert, through the use of johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques. Starting from a single village in 1985, over the years TBS helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons, has brought water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani and Jahajwali. He is one of the members of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA).

He is one of the members of the  (NGRBA) which was set up in 2009, by the Goverment of india  as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the (Ganga), in exercise of the powers conferred under the Environment (Protection) Act,1986. In 2008,  named him amongst its list of "50 people who could save the planet".In the UK he is a founder member of an NGO called the flowhich aims to counter the negative effects of soil erosion and flooding.

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