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Issue: Dec 15, 2009
DownToEarthwww.waterchannel.tv
THE film with the top billing on www.waterchannel.tv is a childs perspective on water. Ten-year-old Buke Onaldi is worried her birth place Hague
might soon be flooded with glacial water from the North Pole. Her immediate worry is her current home in Turkey has acute water crisis. It is fitting
the film gets the top billing. Water scarcity is arguably the gravest environmental crisis. It is apt we have an expression from a generation that will
face its brunt. Its also a generation more attuned to the visual medium than to the written word. The site combines insights in multi-media
management and offers guidelines for better management of water services. Films can also be posted online.
The points are well put lucid and clear. We all talk about the drought and effects in the part of our country but what is...
Actually, the vessel continued to operate as an oil tanker until 2008, when converted to a dry bulk carrier. Still, a...