and his team have restored lakes across india krishnamurthy who has a degree in microbiology decided to take action because of the water shortage in many indian cities including his home city of chennai. two thousand and fifteen we had massive beings and after that we have prolonged periods of drought conditions and we've also heard of rainfall activity this is having a huge impact on the temperature on the good on water reserves and more they look at each body of water individually to decide how to read nature it because it brought in to remove the silt and deepen the lake so that the water and rain can once again drain into the earth allowing the ground water level to bryce. despite the problems and tonight is actually known for its abundance of water that has one of the longest beaches in the world. and the city has over three hundred lakes and two hundred eighty palms the process of restoring water bodies like these is lengthy and arduous but it's worth the effort. in one neighborhood they joined forces with local residents to restore a lake. what you see here used to be in water