Several crore rupess have been sunk into plans to clean up the Yamuna. The authorities have been busy chasing targets to fulfill these plans. But the river remains dirty. This book analyses the strategies adopted to clean up the Yamuna, one of India's holiest and dirtiest rivers.

Authors :Bharat Lal Seth, Suresh Babu S.V
Pages : 180
ISBN : 978-81-86906-40-8
Publication :Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
E-Book Availability: No
Language: English
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Focuses on the issue of water as a common property and a right that is indistinguishable from the right to life. The film documents local communities from India and South Africa striving to maintain this right in the face of official opposition.

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Is water a gift from God, a human right, or just a resource to be traded like any other? Now the World Health Organisation is using the concept of human rights to help achieve clean water for all and to find remedies for the crisis in governance, which, they argue, denies people their right to life. This film visits communities in Ghana and Bolivia who are now fighting for their rights to water.

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Climate change and its impact on the availability of water is the subject of Tell Tale Signs in Orissa in India and Mozambique in Africa.The film puts forth a strong case for communities and official agencies to work together to adapt to changing climate.

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Conflict on sharing of the waters in the Okavango river system in Africa, the Rio Grande in North America and West Bank in water-starved Middle East. The need of the hour, as hydrologist Peter Ashton points out in the film, is to “balance” all concerns, but is anybody listening?

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This film documents the plight of mining affected people in South Africa. Gujarat, India where communities have found new ways to catch rainfall. Water scarcity has forced farmers to innovate.

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Dutch filmmaker Joshka Wessels spent two years making Tunnel Vision. Wessels has recorded the revival of a system of underground irrigation in Syria that started to fall into disuse at the time of the Roman occupation. The ‘Qanats’ are a membrane of tunnels starting again to supply water to farmers in this arid country. In the Gulf it’s called the ‘fallaj’. It is believed the Persians invented the system almost three thousand years ago. A case of back to the future?

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Big dams. Love them or hate them, we have to live with them. Environmental campaigners contend that vast schemes such as the Three Gorges in China or Narmada in India are social and environmental catastrophes in the making. But their backers have a different view. Big dams provide non-polluting energy and control flooding. This film presents the case for and against big dams.

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Examines Japan’s success in urban water management to tackle floods and conserve the country’s wetlands. Also offers community initiatives like rainwater harvesting that could show the way.

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