With growing urbanisation and industralisation India faces the challenge of providing clean and safe drinking water to all citizens. In the name of economic growth most rivers and streams are turning into sewers. As more and more rivers are getting polluted, the municipalities are finding it difficult to treat river water to safe levels and supply it to citizens.
MORE +Passing through five states, the Ganga covers 26 per cent of the country’s landmass. Despite the enormous amounts of money spent on cleaning it, the river continues to run polluted. Worse, the pollution is increasing even in stretches that were earlier considered clean.
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Reviving our river | |
Source: Times of India | |
:: Change flush-&-forget mindset, cry for Yamuna | |
:: Reduce water demand & wastage to revive river | |
Blogs: Sunita Narain | |
:: From water to water | |
:: Excreta's economy: a true experience | |
:: Making water-excreta accounts | |
Opinion: | |
:: Waste, by any other name... | |
Report: | |
:: Review of the interceptor plan for the Yamuna | |
:: State of pollution in the Yamuna | |
Presentation: | |
:: About Yamuna. But not just Yamuna | |
Book: | |
:: Sewage canal: How to clean the Yamuna | |
Film: | |
:: Faecal Attraction: Political Economy of Defecation | |
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Training on Decentralised Sanitation solutions for Grey Water and Faecal Sludge
March 06-09, 2018
The National Green Tribunal has failed to come up with an effective mechanism to make polluters pay
स्पष्ट नीति के अभाव में क्या भारत बि जली से चलने वाले वाहनों के व्या पार को नेतृत्व प्रदान कर सकता है?