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The setting is a placid pond, on whose banks sits a plump and serene fellow in a kimono, his eyes closed.

The prize committee said it was "a replicable model for water ecosystem restoration -- one pond at a time."

He has traveled in a bus packed with U.S. farmers down narrow roads into rural Cambodia, where the landscape is dotted with half-acre ponds used for fish farming.

Deep in the Point Reyes National Seashore are a cluster of freshwater ponds.

Whether it was a serious crash, chimney fire or a cow trapped in a pond, when their pager went off, they were first on the scene.