Meanwhile in the Panchmahals, Harnath Jagawat was working with a simple idea. Even in the summer lean months he said some of the hills streams in this area, the end of the Arravallis, had flowing waters. Jagawat's adivasis lived in the slopes. So, he said, he would lift the water to them. The skeptics said the hydrology was bad and it was energy inefficient. But Jagawat's Sadguru Foundation stuck on. The late 80s irrigated thousands of hectares and thousands of adivasis families had escaped the unger trap, forced migration and were experimenting with new agricultural technologies. The European Commission picked him up and gave him the largest grant to any NGO. NORAD, Ford Foundation and the Aga Khan Foundation joined. Jagawat always kept his home base and Gujarat Government supports. He then cautiously felt his way into adjoining Rajasthan. Learning a lot from chairing his advisory committee, I got my friend U. R. Rao to do a satellite imagery of the ridge at JNU and when we wanted to build our first check dams, we found how difficult it was.