This is a TED talk given by Anupam Mishra that discusses the water collecting structures used by the people of India’s Golden Desert, an area that receives the least amount of water in the entire country. Despite the lack of rainfall in the area, the aged structures are built in a way that adapts to the surrounding environment and captures significant amounts of water. These structures provide an important lesson for the rest of the world: build structures that utilize the environment, not destroy it.