From Independent Online Travel by Bhuvan Bagga: 20 July 2014: Kanpur, India – Standing on the banks of the river Ganges a day after his election triumph, Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to succeed where numerous governments have failed: by cleaning up the filthy waterway beloved of India’s Hindus. From…
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From BBC News Magazine by Divya Arya 27 June 2014: The danger faced by women going to the toilet outdoors in rural India was made clear last month when two girls were ambushed, gang-raped and hanged from a tree. But defecation outside is normal for most Indian villagers – so…
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From The Hindu by Meena Menon. 16 July 2014: Uttarakhand has to ensure that the quest for hydropower cannot come without a responsibility to preserve a region that is limping back to life. The devastation in Uttarakhand had already happened much before the cataclysmic events of June 2013. The unprecedented…
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June 2014: Darshan Goswami makes a strong argument for India to harness concentrated solar power, a renewable, safe and clean resource, for its future energy needs Solar energy is an enormous resource that is readily available in all countries throughout the world, and all the space above the earth. Long…
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Across India, tubewells installed in the 1960s are now the source of controversy. (Water Integrity Blog) From Worldwatch Institute: Water scarcity is a global problem, as demonstrated by the recent droughts across the U.S. Midwest and the Horn of Africa. And it is projected to become increasingly widespread in the coming…
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From The Times of India, Mother Ganga is in the news today, in the article below: NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi’s pet Ganga cleanup programme and his mission for clean water has attracted interest from foreign nations. Israel and Denmark, global leaders in water technology and water management, say they…
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23 June 2014 – Concern is growing over widespread plastic waste that is threatening marine life – with conservative yearly estimates of $13 billion in financial damage to marine ecosystems, according to two reports issued at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly. “Plastic contamination threatens marine life,…
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From Zee News to the Indian Express, Ganga Action Parivar is in the news today, in the article below: New Delhi: Lauding Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi for his pledge to clean up the Ganga, the Rishikesh-based Ganga Action Parivar has offered its help in the effort while proposing to host…
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Ganga Action Parivar celebrated the International Day Without Waste with famous Bollywood singer and artist, Sonu Nigam taking a green pledge to preserve and protect our Mother Earth, Mother Ganga and Mother Nature. For centuries, India has described its fertile and rich soil as sona-as gold- and associated the health of the soil,…
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