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05 Oct, 2015
Indian-American Bhagwati Agrawal is listed among CNN's Top 10 Heroes of 2015, for bringing safe drinking water to more than 10,000 drought-stricken people in his native Rajasthan.
Each of the ten "everyday people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place" will receive $10,000 and be honoured at "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute," a globally broadcast event on December 6.
The CNN Hero of the Year chosen on the basis of readers' votes will receive an additional $100,000 for his cause, CNN announced Thursday.
Spurred by a water crisis in his homeland, Agrawal's nonprofit Sustainable Innovations created a rainwater harvesting system that now provides life-changing, safe drinking water across six villages in Rajasthan, the driest region of India.
His system, called Aakash Ganga -- Hindi for "River from the