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CSE’s Fortnightly News Bulletin

June 15, 2019

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BULLETIN HIGHLIGHTS
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  • Editorial by Sunita Narain
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GO FOR INCLUSIVE GROWTH
The Clean Air Concern
Sunita Narain
Editor, Down To Earth
Twiiter @sunitanar Twitter: @sunitanar
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WASTE TRADE: IS THIS RIGHT?
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I am looking at massive mounds of garbage, but with a difference. This garbage — from our houses — has been sorted, segregated and made into almost neat piles of different stuff. I am at what can be called Asia’s largest wholesale market of junk — located in Delhi’s Tikri Kalan — obviously on the outskirts of the city, because our waste must be out of sight and out of mind.

We then go to the Haryana side of the market, located in Bahadurgarh district, adjoining Delhi. Here again, there are mounds and mounds of sorted and unsorted garbage. While the Delhi market is formal in some way — the land has been provided by the Delhi Development Authority—the Haryana side is located on agricultural land.

I asked farmers why they had leased their lands for this waste trade. They pointed fingers at development, ironically called the Modern Industrial Estate. Here, they say that the industry has pumped industrial discharge into the ground through reverse boring. As a result, their groundwater is contaminated; agriculture is not possible. We could see chimneys and smoke from this “Modern” ground…
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Announcements - Trainings & Events
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Hindi Feature Service
Down To Earth’s Hindi Feature Service, June 30, 2019
For details, write to sukanya.nair@cseindia.org
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Environmental Impact Assessment, AAETI, Neemli, June 24- June 28, 2019
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Water Speaks: Effective communication for advocacy, influence and impact, AAETI, Neemli, July 9- July 12, 2019
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Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement, AAETI, Neemli, July 15 to July 19, 2019
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Advanced Training on Planning and Designing for Treatment of Faecal Sludge & Septage, AAETI, Neemli, July 22-26, 2019
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Basic Laboratory Training in FSSM, AAETI, Neemli, July 22 - 26, 2019
Please visit www.cseindia.org for more training programmes and announcements.
From Down to Earth
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Pollution: People eat 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic every week
Water — from both bottles and taps —, shellfish, beer and salt recorded highest plastic levels
Forests: El Salvador recognises forests as living entities
The Central American country has lost about 85 per cent of its native forests since the 1960s
Water: Cauvery: The river that the Tamils thought would never fail
The ‘Ganga of South India’ may be dying now, but was once a cherished waterbody in the lore of Tamil country
Infographics: On the rise - Displacement burden on India due to extreme weather events
Video: How much heat can the human body take
Blog: Can India’s cities accommodate climate migrants?
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For more titles, please visit www.cseindia.org or write to rchandran@cseindia.org
Jobs At CSE
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Programme Officer for Climate Change Programme
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