Work Overview
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.
Policies and programmes for pollution control look at water use, waste generation and pollution in isolation and this piecemeal approach towards river cleaning based on creating expensive hardware for waste collection and treatment has not worked. The rivers run dirty despite huge investments.
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Ganga: the run of the river
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.
Water and Wastewater Management
How to Clean the Yamuna
Water and Wastewater Management
Will Ganga get its life back?
Water and Wastewater Management
Review of the interceptor plan for the Yamuna
River Pollution
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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... | |
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| :: Review of the interceptor plan for the Yamuna | |
| :: State of pollution in the Yamuna | |
| Presentation: | |
| :: About Yamuna. But not just Yamuna | |
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| :: Sewage canal: How to clean the Yamuna | |
| Film: | |
| :: Faecal Attraction: Political Economy of Defecation | |
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