Right to clean air

Our campaign started with blowing the lid on smog and exposing the smog-makers. CSE launched a successful campaign to introduce CNG as an alternative fuel for public  transportation in a city where a person dies every hour due to air pollution.The campaign continues to fight for cleaning the air of the noxious pollutants and to make breathing easier for all.

People's Right to Water Management

The rainwater harvesting campaign propagates a simple solution to chronic water scarcity and drought: Catch water where it falls. Any land anywhere can be used to harvest rainwater. The fundamental reason: Extend the fruits of the monsoon. Taking measures to keep water clean by not allowing polluting activities to take place in the catchment area.

Equal rights to the atmosphere

Equity is a prerequisite for any global agreement, particularly when dealing with the pollution of our atmosphere, a global common property resource. Discussions on global warming and climate change, however, threaten to put unequal burden on the nations of the world. CSE campaigns for equal rights to the atmosphere to be the basis of climate negotiations, and a model for sharing common property resources.

Sharing rights over rivers

Nearly 800 million Indians depend on the 14 major river basins for their water needs. Rivers provide 64 per cent of water used every year in India. River water is diverted into irrigation canals, dammed for hydropower, and is used for industrial and domestic purposes. Ironically, almost all live-giving rivers, lakes and streams in India are polluted and are fast becoming public hazards. A positive change is possible only if people assert their common rights over their rivers.