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As the destitute across India struggled to get basic food and health services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IAS officer S Seeram Sambasiva Rao provided homes, skill training and jobs to 1500 of them.

Manju Nath and his wife Geeta built their dream eco-friendly home in Bengaluru with solar panels, rainwater harvesting pits while growing their own organic food.

A Karnataka queen lost in the pages of history, Maharani Kempananjammani Vani Vilasa Sannidhana made Mysuru prosperous by focussing on civic issues like health, water, electricity, and education.

Piya Sharma, Jeiya Khurana, Aditya Tanwar, Mohammad Umar and Arjun Singh Bedi (who like to call themselves Fluid Force) says a standalone RO wastes 3 litres of water for every 1 litre that it purifies.

Selected from a field of more than 5,000 nominees as TIME's first-ever 'Kid of the Year', 15-year-old Gitanjali Rao uses technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying.

Ashok Sonawane, a retired professor from Nashik, digs trenches with the help of locals in Deshwandi village to make it tanker free.

The homemakers also get orders from countries like Australia and Canada where their gulkand, dried rose petals, and rosebuds are popular.

“We realised early that we want to stick to sustainable architecture and taking into climatic aspects while planning buildings,” says Piyush.

“In effect, your regular kitchen basin tap is replaced with the one that we have designed,” explains Arjun. With this alteration, when you switch on the tap, the RO wastewater gets mixed with regular water and flows out.

"Five of the 20 most water-stressed cities in the world are from India. I hope that we do not pick up a newspaper one day and read that we have run out of water." #Sustainable #Startup