Santhini Govindan 
The Pond that Shyam Lal Dug [EPUB ebook] 

In many parts of rural India,  water is so scarce that people have to walk long distances and spend many hours collecting water for drinking, cooking, and washing. But in the remote village of Saja Pahad in Chhattisgarh, a teenage boy was determined to change this unhappy situation. The story of how he accomplished this is the stuff that legends are made of.