The environmentalist cleaning up India’s lakes
(CNN) When Arun Krishnamurthy was a teenager, he witnessed a pond near his home in the suburbs of Chennai, India, fill up with trash.
The damage to the pond “snatched away” happy childhood memories, he says — and inspired him to become a conservationist. “I wanted to somehow see (the pond) revived to its original glory.”
The 33-year-old now runs the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) — a nonprofit group that restores freshwater lakes and ponds across India. Krishnamurthy set up the foundation in 2007, the same year he started working as an account associate at Google. Three years later, he quit his job to run EFI full time.
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