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Lake restoration: bringing water bodies back to life

Revive lakes with native planting on banks and catchments, working with communities and local bodies.

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400+ companies plant with us · 85% survival, program-wide · 14 states across India

Water harvesting and plantation on rocky hills, Barsana
Banks & catchments

native planting around the water

With communities

and local bodies

CSR eligible

Schedule VII item (iv)

85% survival

program-wide

Quick answer

How is a lake restored?

Lake restoration brings a degraded lake back to health: clearing silt and waste, fixing inflows, and planting native trees and grasses on banks and catchments to hold soil and filter run-off. Grow Billion Trees plans restoration with communities and local bodies and leads the planting and care around the water body.

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Bajaj Allianz Life
Apollo Tyres
Kolkata Knight Riders
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Lake restoration on film

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Impact

What it changes

For the people, the land and the companies behind each project.

Water

More water held in the lake and recharged into the ground.

Nature

Habitat for birds and aquatic life around restored banks.

Communities

Water for farms and households, and a shared public space.

Companies

A high-visibility CSR project with tracked results.

How a lake restoration project works

Five steps from site to report.

  1. Survey with community and local body

  2. Plan desilting, inflows and planting

  3. Native planting on banks and catchment

  4. Care and maintenance

  5. Monitoring and reporting

Where this programme fits

The corporate goals this programme supports.

Projects across India

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Pins show the approximate area of each project, not exact plot locations. Updated 2026-10-21.

Programmes we have run

How companies planted with us, and what they got.

From the field

Planting, care and growth on our project sites.

Village women planting saplings at a Grow Billion Trees plantation drive
Employees planting and watering saplings at a corporate plantation drive
Corporate team group photo at a Grow Billion Trees plantation site
Freshly dug pits and saplings in rows at a plantation site
Volunteers planting saplings across a large plantation site
Community members kneeling to plant saplings along drip lines
Volunteers planting saplings beside drip irrigation lines
Large group planting trees together at a corporate plantation drive
People planting saplings across an open plantation site

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Questions about lake restoration

What does lake restoration involve?

Clearing silt and waste, fixing inflows, and planting native vegetation on banks and catchments.

Who owns and manages the lake?

Lakes are public or community assets; we plan and work with the gram panchayat, municipality or land-owning body.

What do you plant?

Native trees, shrubs and grasses suited to banks and catchments.

Is lake restoration eligible for CSR?

Yes, conservation of natural resources is covered by Schedule VII item (iv).

How are results reported?

Planting is geo-tagged and tracked, with progress reports for your team.

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Lake restoration across India

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Guides to read

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  • 14 states across India
  • 100 crore trees by 2030 (goal)

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