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The narrative follows Rajendra Singh’s perseverance in restoring a long-lost village pond in Rajasthan, which recharged aquifers, enabled irrigation, improved harvests, and supported reforestation. It also introduces Zephaniah Phiri from Zimbabwe as a second “Waterman.” Supporting guidance explains localization of names and optional verification by local experts.","From Arid Lands to Well-Watered Fields  \nMissionAssist  \nEnglish Environment  \nFrom Arid Lands to Well-Watered Fields  \nThank you for using MissionAssist Shell Books  \nWhere an asterisk (*) appears in the text, the word after it is likely to have local variations and you should change it to suit your own particular setting.  \nInstead of using personal names, we have used *M1, *M2 or *F1, *F2 etc to show male or female characters. 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Please delete these notes before printing  \nEnglish  \nUnited States  \nCopyright © 2021, MissionAssist  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)You are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors,  \nillustrators, etc.  \nCopyright © 2021 MissionAssist  \nIt uses material from Footsteps  \n99 the literary publication of  \nTear Fund with kind permission  \nIllustrations by MissionAssist  \nThis edition published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by MissionAssist Copyright © 2021 MissionAssist  \nPermission is granted for non-profit reproduction and other use of the  \nMissionAssist materials.  \nThis is one of a series of Shell Books produced by MissionAssist  \nPO Box 257  \nEvesham  \nWR11 9AW  \nUnited Kingdom  \nFrom Arid Lands to Well-Watered Fields  \nThis is the story of two men, in two different countries, who saw their own and other people’s need for water — and did something about it.  \nRajendra Singh  \nOur first ‘Waterman’ is Rajendra Singh, who was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi to take an interest in the needs of his fellow countrymen and women in a poor, dry area of India. He began by thinking that what they needed most was education, and perhaps some Indian traditional medicine too.  \nWith four equally enthusiastic friends, Rajendra took a country bus all the way to the end of its route.  \nAfter finding somewhere to stay, they set about trying to help the villagers in this dry and remote part of Rajasthan. But after a while, all his friends became disillusioned with their lack of progress and decided to return to the city.  \nRajendra, however, chose to stay. One day he happened to meet one of the village elders, who told him that what they really needed was not education or medicine, important though these were, but WATER.  \nRajendra looked round atthe arid landscape and wondered how he could possibly help to achieve what seemed an impossible goal. But the old man promised to show him how this could be done, and told him to come back the next day with a spade.  \nThe next day, with a borrowed spade, Rajendra duly met the old man again and they set off to find a suitable spot to start digging. This spot seemed just as dry and hopeless as the rest of the surrounding land, but the old man persuaded Rajendra to dig there all the same. He knew that long ago, before boreholes became the smart new way to obtain water for community use, there had been a pond there. 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