fields, and where to get animal feed. >> things have been transformed now though, partly because of hariram gadriwhat's known here as a "bhujal jankaar." the hindi name means someone who knows all about groundwater. 20 b-j's, as they're nicknamed here, live in the surrounding villages. gadri regularly checks the water levels in the wells and records any trace of rain. >> i used to feel really strange in front of the other villagers. when i first started taking the measurements, they used to ask me 'what on earth are you doing. >> every now and then yogita dashora comes to see hariram gadri. she works for the marvi-project run by a nearby university in udaipur together with australia's western sydney university. the project aims to help people find ways of dealing with the constant water shortage here. living on location, the bj's are key participants, though they had to be trained up to handle their tasks. >> they didn't have any classroom education until now. so it was a new experience for them that they have the opportunity to go to college and learn about things and do it. it was like for ten