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Schools talk green issues:
Several delhi schools came together on Tuesday to discuss environmental issues like water
conservation, water-harvesting techniques and the use of the environment-friendly
products.The seminar was held at the Sri Ram Scholl, Vasant Vihar, which has been selected
by the state government to be the 'lead school' to disseminate knowledge on the
environment and green technology among south Delhi schools. Experts like Annirudha
Mookherkee of the Wildlife Trust of India, R.K.Sriniwasan of the Centre for Science and
Environment, M.S. Murthy of Green World Associates spoke on the use of
environment-friendly technology in their respective fields. |
| Hindustan
Times, New Delhi, December 18, 2002 |
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Curbing the drain on clean drinking water
by Rahul Chhabra:
About 40 per cent of the 600 million gallons of water supplied by the Delhi Jal Board
daily is never used for drinking. Instead, it is used for domestic chores, including
flushing of toilets.The wastage has continued for years even as the city's demand for
drinking water has risen by 20 MGD a year."There is no reason why water meant for
drinking should be used for washing or flushing," said R V Singh, a research
associate at the Centre for Science and Environment. |
| The
Times of India, New Delhi, November 11, 2002 |
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Narmada Canal goes on stream:
The Chief Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, has said that the Narmada canal system has the
potential to convert al rivers in the water-starved regions it criss-crosses into
perennial ones, made possible by the engineering skill adopted since the design stage. Mr.
Modi said the State Government had undertaken adequate steps to ensure that electricity
could be generated at the Sardar Sarovar Project within 150 days of the height of the dam
reaching 110 metres. "If river Narmada is the 'lifeline of Gujarat', the Narmada
canal system can be said to be the 'backbone of Gujarat', he said. |
| Business
Line, New Delhi, August 31, 2002, Page No.17 |
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Cleanliness, a wasted effort by Indira
Dharchaudhuri:
According to a report by the Asian Centre for Organisation Research and Development
(ACORD), Delhi is one of the dirtiest cities in the world and produces nearly 8,000 tonnes
of waste every day.But the city that houses nearly 13 million people does not have an
adequate waste management system.The scene is equally squalid in the case of sewage
treatmen. Though Delhi generates nearly 3,000 million litres of sewage per day, according
to a Centre for Science and Enviornment report, "around 1,800 million litres of
untreated domestic waste and another 300 million liters of industrial waste end up in the
river Yamuna daily. |
| Hindustan
Times, New Delhi. August 10, 2002 |
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And quiet flows the Yamuna, filthy and
polluted:
With less than a year left for the Supreme Court deadline to the Delhi Government for
cleaning Yamuna, officials and experts concede that the 'clean Yamuna campaign' has
miserably failed to check pollution."Efforts to clean Yamuna have ended up as photo
opportunities, while the actual problems are still unaddressed," says Mr Manoj
Nadkarni of the River Water Studies wing of the Centre for Science and
Environment."The authorities have recognised the untreated sewage flowing into the
river as the chief pollutant and spent crores of rupees on sewage treatment plants which
are non-functional," says Mr Nadkarni while citing that similar steps taken to
prevent pollution in Ganges failed as the STPs required electricity round the clock. |
| Business
Line, New Delhi, July 13, 2002 |
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Yamuna awaits a miracle By Sangeet Kumar:
At the most, Delhi government can hope for a miracle - if it has to clean the Yamuna
before the Supreme Court's March 31, 2003 deadline.This probably was nagging worry of
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit while inaugurating the second shramdaan campaign involving
NGOs and citizens for cleaning up the river yesterday.Says Manoj Nadkarni, the head of the
water pollution unit at the Centre for Science and Environment:"While industrial
effluents can be controlled because it comes from one source, domestic effluents are more
difficult to purify because of the pathetic drainage network." |
| The
Indian Express, New Delhi, June 2, 2002 |
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Yamuna cleaning drive ends in a ritual By
Ambika Pandit:
The much-hyped Clean Yamnua Campaign that started on Friday morning was just a two-hour
long mela. The first day of the three- day-long cleaning exercise left the banks a wee bit
cleaner. But residents living on these ghats pressed for some permanent measures to
improve the situation. Mr. Manoj Natkarni from Centre for Science and Environment said:
"The river can be cleaned up only by improving the sewage system in the city, which
is in absolute disarray. Besides, many of the programmes under the Yamuna Action Plan
still remain unfulfilled." |
| The
Asian Age, New Delhi, June 1, 2002 |
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Flushing it down the system By Sunita
Narain:
A few years ago, while attending the Stockholm Water Symposium, we had an invitation to a
banquet from the king of Sweden. But instead of dining in splendour, my colleague, Anil
Agarwal, and I inspected toilets in some remote parts of the city. I was not sufficiently
convinced of our mission as we opened the hatch of these "alternative" toilets
bins where the faecal matter was being stored before composting and were regaled with
information about how urine could be separated in the toilet and used directly for
agriculture. |
| Business
Standard, New Delhi, May 14, 2002 |
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How much do we need? By Pragya Singh:
Delhi may be shedding crocodile tears when it comes to complaining about water shortage.
According to figures published by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in 2000
(revised in 2001),Delhi gets 11 per cent of its water supply from ground water, 17 per
cent from Uttar Pradesh, 19 per cent from Haryana and the remaining 53 per cent from the
Yamuna.However, city officials and NGOs have also started claiming that Delhi relies for
30 to 40 per cent of its water needs on ground water. |
| The
Pioneer, New Delhi, May 3, 2002 |
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Murky waters
In what could be seen as a telling comment on the levels of water pollution in the city,
the Yamuna receives 80 per cent of its pollutants in the 22 km stretch that it traverse in
Delhi.According to CSE, about 1,800 million litres of untreated domestic waste and another
300 million litres of industrial waste end up in the river daily. The 18 major drains of
the city discharge into the Yamuna. |
| The
Times of India, New Delhi, April 14, 2002 |
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