The majority of India's water sources are polluted. A lack of access to safe water contributes to a fifth of its communicable diseases. Each day in the booming, nuclear-armed nation, diarrhea alone kills more than 1,600 people.
India Pre-Copenhagen Conference
Published August 16, 2009
India is making moves to protect its natural resources, instituting an environmental agency modeled after the US' own EPA, according to the Financial Times.
"The new push comes as India finds itself in the spotlight in the run up to December's Copenhagen conference on climate change, where world leaders are hoping to hammer out a successor to the Kyoto agreement," says the report. "India, China, and other developing countries are under pressure to come up with firmer plans to reduce emissions... a state-commissioned report released this week showed that almost half of India's land was degraded, air pollution was a deepening threat to public health and water resources were shrinking."
Jyoti Sharma from the NGO FORCE on "The Five Rs of water conservation":
CE of WaterAid, Lourdes Baptista, on water management, quantity and quality in India: Director of WaterAid in Delhi, Indira Khurana on behavior change and sanitation in urban and rural India: To hear Oceanographer Simon Boxall on the subject of India's role in climate change, click here:Project
Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler reflects on his experience in international reporting and the fraught path from daily journalism to long-form nonfiction.
Irrigation and hydroelectric projects along with shrinking glaciers are reducing the flow of the Indus River--and increasing tensions between Pakistan and India.
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Multimedia journalist Anna-Katarina Gravgaard has reported from four different continents with a focus on water and the environment. A print reporter from age 14, she transitioned into multimedia...
