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May 18, 2013

Kicking up a stink

Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...

By : Gerard de Souza

May 18, 2013

Chaos in the iron age

Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...

By : Anonymous

May 18, 2013

My god v your resource

Very good piece.

By : Bimal Prasad Pandia

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Pure myth

Date: March 31, 2008

The water-purifier industry is a flourishing market. Add to that a gamut of technologies and tall claims. The question is if consumers are informed enough to make appropriate choices; and whether there are regulations. And what about the fundamental problem of bad water quality?

Emergency

Date: December 31, 2004

In Chennai, a desperate hunt to source water. The official and expensive fantasy of tapping rivers holds politicians in thrall. Its a borewell bash out there. Tankers are legion. An exclusive survey to find out how people cope

Perpetual Thirst

Date: February 28, 1999

Too many plans, too little water

The drowning of a city

Date: March 31, 1994

There are both in Delhi - criminal waste, unendurable want. And in this city of verdant veneers, nowhere does the callous politics of dispossession show its slip more than in the titanic economics of water. Water led the way to the formation of cities; the misuse of it can undo the best of them as well.

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