This publication documents traditions, practices technologies and policies of water harvesting in the country. It also assesses state government efforts to deal with drought. The book has a clear message for the thirsty times ahead: Water must be made everybody's business.

Authors :Anil Agarwal, Indira Khurana, Sunita Narain
Pages : 456
ISBN :
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
Format: Paper Back
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Language: English
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This is CSE's latest book in its Right to Clean Air Campaign series. We have more roads and flyovers than ever before to address our transportation worries. But, unfortunately, roads in cities like Delhi are chock-a-block with bumper-to-bumper traffic, due to the huge ratio of cars as compared to buses. It is time to set new terms of action. Make the city more walkable. This book discusses in detail ways and means of dealing with pollution and congestion.

Contributors : Sunita Narain, Anumita Roychowdhury, H B Mathur, Vivek Chattopadhyay, Priyanka Chandola, Jayeeta Sen
Pages : 110
ISBN : 978-81-86906-51-4
Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
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The Anil Agarwal Reader series puts together the weekly essays/opinion pieces that eminent environmentalist and journalist Anil Agarwal wrote between 1991 and 2001. The essays are a riveting commentary on the environment-development problem. Witty and reflective, the pieces embody one man's committed engagement with his times. (3 volumes) The readers delve into issues like the structural adjustment programme, natural resource management and ecological globalisation, and have a common theme: the poor are the country's real resource managers.

Volume 1 is a collection of essays written by Agarwal between 1991 and 1994 for a column called 'Green politics' in the daily Economic Times.
(Pages : 348, Price: Rs.300)

Volume 2 consists of essays written between 1995 and 1998.
(Pages : 220, Price: Rs.300)

Volume 3 includes essays written from 1998-2001.
(Pages : 268, Price: Rs.300) Learn More