Mr. Rajendra Singh is the winner of Stockholm Water Prize’ 2015; an award known as “the Nobel Prize for Water”. Under his dynamic leadership, the organization Tarun Bharat Sangh is working for restoring life and hope to the barren land of Rajasthan.

Starting from a single village in 1985, TBS has helped build over 8,600 johads and other water conservation structures to collect rainwater for the dry seasons and has brought water back to over 1,000 villages and revived five rivers in Rajasthan, Arvari, Ruparel, Sarsa, Bhagani, and Jahajwali. Rajendra Singh is one of the members of the National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) which was set up in 2009 by the Government of India as an empowered planning, financing, monitoring and coordinating authority for the Ganges (Ganga). In the UK he is a founding member of an NGO called the Flow Partnership which aims to counter the negative effects of soil erosion and flooding.

Popularly known as “Waterman of India”, Rajendra Singh is also heading a national network of organizations working on water issues; Rashtriya Jal Biradari. This network is working for the restoration of all mighty and small rivers of the country.

Rajendra Singh runs an NGO called ‘Tarun Bharat Sangh’ (TBS), which was founded in 1975. The NGO is based in village hori-Bhikampura in Thanagazi Tehsil, near the Sariska Tiger Reserve and has been instrumental in fighting the slow bureaucracy, mining lobby and has helped villagers take charge of water management in their semi-arid area. The region lies close to Thar Desert and through the use of Johad, rainwater storage tanks, check dams and other time-tested as well as path-breaking techniques, TBS has been able to replenish the groundwater and restore wells and rivers of the region.