I can not just walk into any neighborhood and start cleaning up a lake or a pond until the community there has a buy-in... if they are willing to participate, otherwise, it's just my responsibility to clean it up, and tomorrow it will go back to where it was before.

Arun Krishnamurthy

Arun Krishnamurthy (born 1986) is an Indian environmental activist who has initiated the campaign of cleaning various lakes across India. He is known for founding the NGO, Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) in 2011 based in Chennai which has its branches in other cities such as Hyderabad, Delhi and Coimbatore. Arun with the organisation has been successful in cleaning at least 39 lakes in the country and having worked in Google before quitting the job to dedicate voluntarily. He was chosen as among the five people for prestigious Rolex Awards for Enterprise award in 2012 for scientific lake restoration in Chennai.

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