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Thoughts on Water
These are pictures that would help in the research for what conditions are likely to be for people who live on the streets and in water deprived conditions. Paani ("Water" in Hindi) is the story of a city that has been divided into the upper and the lower city. In the year 2025. Global warming has taken place leading to a severe water shortage. The Upper City sucks up all the water and then drip- feeds the lower city. Water is now a weapon of economic and political oppression.
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In this blog, I display my own photos and discuss issues involving water that have inspired Paani ("Water"), a film I am developing to examine the daily struggle for water in the slums of Mumbai.
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We also have a similar view about how the governments, policy makers, new cartels hold the people for ransom, for what is truly theirs.
We have struggled for many years to fight the system/cartels that exist of old water technology (high chlorine/iodine injections). There are children dying everyday because the taste of the water is so bad they refuse to drink it.
Only through awareness and persistence will we overcome the future cartels that will drain us of our dignity and the right to clean water.
We have also entered into changemakers water event under the name "purifying the world one drop at a time". We are a US company our name is World Health Alliance International Inc. Website www.whaintl.com
It is our desire to work with your vision.
May our endeavors work to change the face of the oppressed.
Cordially,
Charles Veach
Senior Director
you talk on the prevalence of water mafia in Mumbai, i would like to draw your attention to a different kind of mafia or rather terrorism- the terrorism of indifference in our country.I reside in Kolkata and it bleeds to see water gushing out ( through out the day) of thick pipes alonside the road with no taps to control the wastage of water.When I enquired as to why the pipes are without tap's, the reply "was it is promptly stolen the moment it is fixed".
Therefore if all schools have compulsory subjects on environment conservation, we can see a ray of hope in the tunnel of apathy.
Anita, I completely agree with that. We can take it down by water management, and part of water management is the loss of water. From what I know, the distribution of water has always been and continues to be completely mismanaged in India, whether it is the canal system where most of the water is seeping away through the leaking banks, or evaporating away. You deplete a river, but you are only getting 20 percent of the water by the time it gets into the land, or -- as you say -- in the leaking pipelines.
And we can bring the impact down a lot through environmental education. I think environmental education is becoming an absolute imperative. I notice that because of the school where my daughter goes in Mumbai, she tells me to turn the water off when I am brushing my teeth, saying it is wrong. She’s only seven-years-old and she’s very keen – she talks about not cutting trees down.
Education leads to a social environment where overconsumptiveness becomes a socially unacceptable behavior. Currently, when somebody says, “Hey, come to my house because I have this great consumptive area,” people admire that somebody that can indulge in such consumptiveness. But that kind of education will lead to us becoming more responsible citizens of the earth, rather than just competitive people trying to get ahead and edge somebody else out. So as you grow up, you could actually socially look down upon such consumptiveness.
- Shekhar