This is India's first and most comprehensive survey presented in an attractive 2-volume set on the state of its water and its management. It is the 7th Report in our highly popular SOE Series. It would be of immense value to professionals and decision makers in the Central and State Governments besides academicians, researchers,
NGOs and all major Libraries.

In these two volumes you will get to know the water-waste profiles of 71 Indian cities. Within their pages lie the model for a sustainable and affordable growth.

Volume 1 dwells on how urban India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning in its own waste.

Author : Sunita Narain
Pages : 296
ISBN : 978-81-86906-55-2
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Excreta Matters (Vol.1)
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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
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Across India, people have taken their destinies into their hands – Improving their future. A compendium of such stories. Reported over 12 years.

Authors :Ruksan Bose, Suhit Sen, Sunita Narain
Pages : 288
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An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercury pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.

Authors : Chandra Bhushan, Sunita Narain
Pages : 334
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This report remains one of the few chronicles of the ecological change taking place in the Indo-Gangetic plains - India's most densely populated area. Focussing on the recurrent problem of floods in this region and describes the nature of challenge posed by ecologically sound development and suggests new ways of looking at policies.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 167
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Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 404
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This book presents a national overview of the startling array of challenges faced by India - including pollution and waste generation. The book demonstrates how all natural resources, from land and forests to water and biodiversity, are under immense pressure and in turn, compounded poverty. Rapid industrial, agricultural and urban development has led to alarming and ever-growing levels of pollution. The solution lies in good governance and the application of appropriate technological and management solutions as the nation inches towards higher rates of economic growth and social development.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Srabani Sen, Sunita Narain
Pages : 696
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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.

The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

Authors : Pratap Pandey, Sunita Narain
Pages : 348
ISBN : 978-81-86906-37-8
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Volume 2 consists of essays written between 1995 and 1998.

The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

Authors : Pratap Pandey, Sunita Narain
Pages : 220
ISBN : 978-81-86906-38-5
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