bees are built and maintained by traditional well diggers like ramakrishna who lives in a village outside the city. ramakrishna is a fourth generation well digger and his community's vocal know how it's centuries old he believes it can be used to help tackle the city's modern day problems. earlier we used to get all our water from open well people forgot about them but now they're becoming more aware and i think we should use. a crack up if we keep using bore wells the city will run out of water. alongside water conservationists ramakrishna is now involved in a campaign to recharge the city's wells it would replenish shallow groundwater aquifers with rainwater the process is more environmentally friendly than jelling bore wells deep into the ground and the campaign aims to have a million functional open wells by the time it's done ramakrishnan the community he belongs to represent