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[email protected] Today's topics: * Janadesh 2007: ICYO call for youth support to tribal people's Right of Livelihood. - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/b0b4fb111e495227?hl=en * Fwd: Parliamentary nostrils were offended, while poor people died......[ United Nations Human Development Report 2006] - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/bbba4d808bb049e8?hl=en * Human Appeal to Respected Friends - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/4105fd30bb58a149?hl=en * New-look Website Launched! - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/73ffdbf8da7655f9?hl=en * Koya-Wes started Hand Made Clothes Unit with Traditional Wooden Hand Machines in South Bastar - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/74dda8ff6fb12be6?hl=en * Fwd: Business opportunities ........Innovative Designs To Improve Life Of The Masses......... - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/562526035c039eb2?hl=en * 5. Court ends Brahmin priests' monopoly in Tripura temple (News) - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9115e87e6834573b?hl=en * Fwd: Bottled water costs us the earth - report by Sunita Narain - 1 messages, 1 author http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/040d5e877bdfe9c9?hl=en ============================================================================== TOPIC: Janadesh 2007: ICYO call for youth support to tribal people's Right of Livelihood. http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/b0b4fb111e495227?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Aug 25 2007 8:41 am From: "Shoubhik Purkayastha" Hello to All @BM Looking to support the initiative? Love and Peace, Shoubhik P.S. : Saurabh/ Gaurav: Since this begins in Gwalior...please inform your chapter as well. P.P.S. : I was told by Info Team that Abhijit of Pune has the letterhead... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ICYOIndia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 22, 2007 1:54 PM Message for Indian Civil Society /Youth NGOs: *Youth Network Organizations Initiative for JANADESH* *Call for Unified Action: To Demonstrate Commitment* TOWARDS NON-VIOLENCE AND PEACE INITIATIVES FOR RIGHT OF LIVELIHOOD (by tribal and deprived people) Dear colleagues, Greetings, On the International Day for non-violence on 2nd October 2007 the world will witness this historic event. Noted Gandhian and Sarvoday leader and ICYO Chairman, Dr.S.N.Subbarao, Mr.P.V.Rajgopal, Founder of Ekta Parishad, Dr Ran Singh Parmar, Convener of Janadesh and Treasurer of ICYO, have taken lead in mobilizing marginalized communities.25000 marginalized people including tribals, dalits and other people will undertake foot march (Pad Yatra) Satyagraha known as Janadesh 2007 from Gwalior to Delhi from October 2, 2007 to press for demand for livelihood right and right on land. Other nationals and international organizations are supporting from outside. Janadesh success depends on how much pressure we can build up on the Government so that it is compelled to listen. We, the civil society organizations have to show the solidarity and support to these marching satyagrahi. We need to raise their voice at same time at our constituencies of working. We would like that network organizations and civil societies efforts are consolidated into unified action. On this October 2, the world is observing International Day for Non-violence first time. Janadesh gives us an opportunity to demonstrate our commitment by supporting Janadesh. We should think fast and act fast. Small decisive actions can help to mobilize the public opinion in the favour of these marginalized communities and show the solidarity with them. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Recommended Actions:- * Ø One way of doing is spreading the message of Janadesh among people in our own language. Ø Send your organization support on your Letter Head to us in writing to Delhi or Gwalior office Ø Participate in the post card campaign by writing simple one or two sentences in your language in support of Janadesh to the Prime Minister of India. Ø Showing national solidarity on Oct 2, 2007 with marginalized community, who for the first time in post independence have raised their voice and undertaking foot march. This can be done by lending our support for this non-violence action of Janadesh from our respective places. This can be in the form of rallies, Dharna and such other things. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Is it possible to organize district level programmes on 2nd October 2007? The programme can take any shape in the form of Rally, Dharna, meeting, press conference etc. We all can you use our own networks, groups or our respective organization / institutional banners. We need to tell Government that there are twenty five thousand adivasi walking towards Delhi for their livelihood and 2500 organizations are supporting this non-violent movement. Government should take decisive action so that poor people can get means of livelihood to life with dignity. (for more information write to Mr. Vijay Bharatiya at email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICYO appeal all youth organizations, youth groups and civil society organizations in India to support the Janadesh by organizing event on 2nd October 2007. Please plan the event and let us know about your action plan. We shall help you to get the publicity and recognition. Looking forward to hear from you all. With Warm Regards Ravi narayan (Ravi Narayan) Secretary General, India Committee of Youth Organizations (ICYO) 194-A, Arjun Nagar, Safdarjang Enclave New Delhi 110029, India. 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Connect with others. . __,_._,___ -- Yours for Greatness, Shoubhik Purkayastha Ambassador, Crusade India www.ShapingIndia.org http://profiles.TakingITGlobal.org/shoubhik Mobile : +91-9810729433 ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Parliamentary nostrils were offended, while poor people died......[ United Nations Human Development Report 2006] http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/bbba4d808bb049e8?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Aug 25 2007 11:49 am From: "Sundeep Jalan" Social reformers, Physicians, Municipal leaders and industrialists formed powerful coalitions that elevated Water and Sanitation to the top of the political agenda. "Parliament was all but compelled to legislate upon the great London nuisance by the force of sheer stench." Thus commented the London Times on an episode known as the "Great Stink", in the long hot summer of 1858. Today, people in the cities of Europe and the United States live free from fear of water borne infectious diseases. At the turn of the 20th Century the picture was very different. The vast expansion of wealth that followed industrialization increased incomes, but improvements in more fundamental indicators such as life expectancy, child survival and public health lagged far behind. The reason: cities exposed people to greater opportunities to amass wealth, but also exposed them to contaminated water. Children in developed countries do not die for want of a glass of clean water. Young girls are not kept home from school to make long journeys to collect water from streams and rivers, and water borne infectious disease is a subject for history books, not for hospital wards and morgues. "The sewer is the conscience of the city",wrote Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. He was describing 19th Century Paris, but the state of Sanitation remains a powerful indicator of the state of human development in any community. Throughout history human progress has depended on access to clean water and on the abilities of societies to harness the potential of water as a productive resource. "By means of water", says the Koran, "we give life to everything". That simple teaching captures a deeper wisdom. People need water as surely as they need oxygen. People need clean water and sanitation to sustain their health and maintain their dignity. The deprivation in access to clean water and adequate sanitation can be measured by statistics, but behind the numbers are the human faces of millions of people denied an opportunity to realize their potential. The crisis in Water and Sanitation is, above all, a crisis for the poor. The perverse principle that applies across much of the developing world is that the poorest people not only get access to less water, and to less clean water, but they also pay the highest prices. Water, the stuff of life and the basic human right, is at the heart of the daily crisis faced by the countless millions of the world's most vulnerables, a crisis that threatens life and destroys livelihoods on a devastating scale. Clean water and sanitation can make or break human development. They are fundamental to what people can do and what they can become, to their capabilities. Far more than to the wealthy, water rights matter to the poor for an obvious reason: they lack the financial resources and political voice protect their interest. With demand on water resources increasing, some reallocation among users and sectors is inevitable. In any process of competition for scarce resource, rival claims are mediated through economic and political structures and through systems of rights and entitlements. Outcomes for the poorest, most vulnerables in the society will be determined by the way institutions mediate and manage rival claims, and whether governments put equity concerns at the centre of national policies. Underpricing has sustained overuse: if markets delivered Porsche cars at a give away price, they too would in short supply. Water pricing policies need to better reflect the scarcity value of water. Water and Sanitation are among the most powerful preventive medicine available to governments to reduce infectious disease. There is more than enough water in the world for domestic purposes, for agriculture and for industries. The problem is that some people, notably the poor, are systematically excluded from access by their poverty, by their limited legal rights or by public policies that limit access to the infrastructures that provide water for life and for livelihoods. In the world of early 21st Century national security concerns loom large on the National and International agenda. Violent conflicts, terrorist threats, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the growth of illicit trade in arms and drugs all pose acute challenges. Against this backdrop it is easy to lose sight of some basic security imperatives, including those linked to water. In sanitation the taboo remains resolutely intact. This helps to explain why the subject does not receive high level political leadership and it seldom figures in election campaigns or public debate. No act of terrorism generates economic devastation on the scale of the crisis in water and sanitation. Clean water and Sanitation would save the lives of countless childrens, support progress in education and liberate people from the illness that keep them in poverty. The urgency in addressing the issue cannot be overstated. The absence of toilets poses particularly severe public health and security problems for women and young girls. The irony of humanity, spending billions of dollars in exploring the potential for life on other planets would be powerful and tragic, if at the same time we allow the destruction of life and human capabilities on planet earth for want of far less demanding technologies, the infrastructure to deliver clean water and sanitation to all. Providing a glass of clean water and a toilet may be challenging but it is not so with rocket science Crisis in Water and Sanitation could be consigned to history. The World has the technology, the finance and the human capacity to remove the blight of water insecurity from millions of lives. Lacking are the political "Will and Vision" needed to apply these resources for the public good. National policy is the starting point, because without strong national policies progress cannot be sustained. The vision is rooted in simple idea that extreme poverty and gross disparities of opportunities are not inescapable feature of the human condition but a curable affliction whose continuation diminishes us all and threatens our collective security and prosparity. Whether viewed from the perspective of human rights, social justice or economic common sense, the damage inflicted by deprivation in water and sanitation is indefensible. Like hunger, deprivation in access to water is a silent crisis, experienced by the poor and tolerated by those, having the resources, the technology and political power, to end it. Water flows through all aspects of Human life. Put bluntly, the world is running down one of its most precious natural resources and running up an unsustainable ecological debt that will be inherited by our future generations. There are valid reasons to presume that the future generation will curse for our indifferent attitude towards equitable access to water and sanitation. Improved Sanitation brings advantages for public health, livelihoods and dignity, advantages that extend beyond households to entire communities. Toilet may seem an unlikely catalyst for human progress, but evidence are overwhelming. Water pervades all aspects of human development. "Not having access" to Water and sanitation is a polite euphemism, for a form of deprivation that threatens life, destroys opportunity and undermines human dignity. A concern for poverty and human development will only dictate outcomes. Sandeep, Mumbai. ------------------------------ DELETE button is history. Unlimited mail storage is just a click away.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_6/*https://edit.india.yahoo.com/config/eval_register> ============================================================================== TOPIC: Human Appeal to Respected Friends http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/4105fd30bb58a149?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sat, Aug 25 2007 9:58 pm From: "Social Ownership" Respected Friends, In many districts of Bihar, more than 20 Million (2 Cror) people are being suffered deeply. More than 10 Million (1 Cror) people have been displaced to high places. Thousands of lives have been lost. We are in lack of medicines. Foods are being arranged by some local voluntary groups, local politicians, local NGOs and others. But people need medical help with priorities. I hope, you should support the people of Bihar. We are getting support from AID Organization, but it is too less. If it is possible to give more support, all of us should provide more help as we can. We need help to arrange Medicines from Pharmaceutical Companies, Clothes and Pots. Please make efforts to provide help for Flood Relief. Some NGOs got help from UNICEF etc but these NGOs are interested to make money only. After 15th of September, 2007. I will try to send photographs of Flood Victims, Flood Areas etc. We all will be very thankful to you all. with regards, love vivek -- www.localgovernance.org www.localgovernance.org/family.html www.localgovernance.org/socialownershipintro.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vivek Umrao Glendenning www.localgovernance.org/vivekumrao.html (Committed to Last Person of Society with Social Governance) -- **** Former Researcher- Indian Institute of Management (IIM) * Coordinator- Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group * Vice Chairman- Koya Wes Institute * Member- Tarun Bharat Sangh, Jal Biradari * Former Secretary-to-Trustee Secretary.- GSN, Rajghat, ND * Former Member- National Projects Coordination Committee ASHA ***WORK FIELDS --- Decentralized Economy, Social Democracy, Water Issues, Education, Human Values, Decentralized & Local Technology, Street Play, Tribal Solutions, Social Corporate systems, Alternative Writings. Please visit-- www.localgovernance.org/photoalbum.html ============================================================================== TOPIC: New-look Website Launched! http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/73ffdbf8da7655f9?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sun, Aug 26 2007 7:10 am From: "Bharat Uday Mission - National Executive" Dear Sisters & Brothers, I am very pleased to announce the launch of our new look website. Pl. have a look at it NOW. I am sure you'll all agree with me that it's a big improvement over the current one. We are still improving it further and your suggestions are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED] A new feedback form is also being created on the website. I would like to mention that this is a culmination of the hard efforts put in by the website Content and Technical team over the past few months. The following are the website team members: Amit P Baburaj Bharat Gaurav Bharat Mayank S. (Tech.) Ramji Bharat Santosh Nargund Saurabh Bharat Vignesh (Tech.) I thank all the team members on behalf of the BM Family for giving us this good tool in our Mission. -- Jai Hind! Santosh P. Nargund General Secretary, Bharat Uday Mission www.bharatudaymission.org 09916135836 -- "We have only one Passion, The Rise of a Great Nation." www.bharatudaymission.org ============================================================================== TOPIC: Koya-Wes started Hand Made Clothes Unit with Traditional Wooden Hand Machines in South Bastar http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/74dda8ff6fb12be6?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sun, Aug 26 2007 12:26 pm From: "Social Ownership" Respected Friends, Koya Wes has started a Hand Made Clothes Manufacturing Unit in South Bastar (Dantewada), Chhattisgarh without any fund from any funding agency. Now 10 persons are working in this unit. A business person of Raipur is ready to buy clothes. Koya Wes buy Raw Cotton (Kundi) from Jagdalpur and manufacture Cotton Clothes by using traditional wooden hand machines. It is our first step towards Agro-Industrial Social Economy. Thanks for all of yours blessings for us. love vivek Koya Wes -- www.localgovernance.org www.localgovernance.org/family.html www.localgovernance.org/socialownershipintro.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vivek Umrao Glendenning www.localgovernance.org/vivekumrao.html (Committed to Last Person of Society with Social Governance) -- **** Former Researcher- Indian Institute of Management (IIM) * Coordinator- Local Governance & Decentralized Economy Social Group * Vice Chairman- Koya Wes Institute * Member- Tarun Bharat Sangh, Jal Biradari * Former Secretary-to-Trustee Secretary.- GSN, Rajghat, ND * Former Member- National Projects Coordination Committee ASHA ***WORK FIELDS --- Decentralized Economy, Social Democracy, Water Issues, Education, Human Values, Decentralized & Local Technology, Street Play, Tribal Solutions, Social Corporate systems, Alternative Writings. Please visit-- www.localgovernance.org/photoalbum.html ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Business opportunities ........Innovative Designs To Improve Life Of The Masses......... http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/562526035c039eb2?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Sun, Aug 26 2007 11:13 pm From: "Sundeep Jalan" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sundeep Jalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 27, 2007 11:41 AM Subject: Business opportunities ........Innovative Designs To Improve Life Of The Masses......... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may visit these web sites and explore huge business opportunity especially for Indian conditions. http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/about/ http://www.indexaward.dk/2007/default.asp?id=709&Article=847&Folder=847 http://www.organicarchitect.com/research/2007awards/index.html Sandeep. ------------------------------ DELETE button is history. Unlimited mail storage is just a click away.<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_mail_6/*https://edit.india.yahoo.com/config/eval_register> ============================================================================== TOPIC: 5. Court ends Brahmin priests' monopoly in Tripura temple (News) http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/9115e87e6834573b?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Aug 27 2007 11:50 pm From: "Abhijit K" 5. Court ends Brahmin priests' monopoly in Tripura temple (News) Posted by: "Tarun Udwala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] tarunudgir Date: Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:17 am ((PDT)) http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=51192 Court ends Brahmin priests' monopoly in Tripura temple Agartala, Aug 24 (IANS) In a landmark judgement, a Tripura court has overruled the decades old practice of only Brahmin priests performing rituals at the famed Tripureswari temple, officials said Friday. The 500-year-old Tripureswari temple, 55 km south of here, is regarded as one of the 51 'Piths' (holy sites) of Hindu pilgrimage in India. "Civil Judge Arindam Pal, referring to a judgement of the Supreme Court, observed that any Hindu who has sound knowledge about the rituals could perform rituals at any Hindu temple," a government official said. The court ruling also said non-Brahmins could pray at the temple. The temple was established in 1501 by the then Tripura king Maharaja Dhanyamanikya. It is popularly known as 'Matabari'. The verdict was delivered after head priest Binoy Kumar Bhattacharjee moved the court on behalf of other Brahmin priests and assistants staking claim on offerings, including cash, made by devotees at the temple. "The civil court not only turned down the plea but also curtailed the absolute by only Brahmin priests to perform rituals," the official said. The Tripura government bears the expenditure for the temple's upkeep. The court, however, bestowed the authority on the temple advisory committee to decide whether they would allow the existing priests to continue with their duties or have a new set. "The court has given three months to take a decision on the matter," the official said. IANS ============================================================================== TOPIC: Fwd: Bottled water costs us the earth - report by Sunita Narain http://groups.google.com/group/BM_discussion/browse_thread/thread/040d5e877bdfe9c9?hl=en ============================================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Tues, Aug 28 2007 8:58 pm From: "Abhijit K" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Somu Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 28, 2007 11:11 PM Subject: [aimsindia] Bottled water costs us the earth - report by Sunita Narain To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, Please read this wonderful Report by Sunita Narain of CSE on the complex problems involved in Bottle water. It may seem simple, stylish & easy to drink bottle water but it will COST us our Earth soon. Please drink Public Water only and save our Earth. The Fear of safety on Public water is just created by these corporations to flourish their business; we been living on Public water for centuries and the system has only got better and we will be completely safe. Let's take an oath today to "Stop drinking bottled water and drink only Public Water". In Solidarity, Somu ---------------------------------------------- *Bottled water costs us the earth* http://www.downtoearth.org.in/editor.asp?foldername=20070831&filename=Editor&sec_id=2&sid=1 The botted water industry is global in nature. But it is designed to sell the same product to two completely different markets: one water rich and the other water scarce. The question is whether this industry will have different outcomes in these two worlds. Or will we, for two opposite reasons, agree that their business costs us the earth and that it is not good for us? In the water and economically-rich world, bottled water started as a luxury--a non-essential item of desire, health and status. The water came from fancy mountain streams: they were packaged and sold as mineral-filled sparkling water. It was different from tap water and a healthy (and snobbish) alternative to sweet and street smart colas. But soon, the industry grew. In most cases, the companies sold water that was not sourced from mountain springs but from public water: municipal water sources. Once the snob habit was formed and the market created, the companies simply packaged tap water in most cases into plastic bottles and sold it from supermarkets. Like nobody said the emperor had no clothes on. Nobody asked why they were buying water for ten times the municipality's price. Call it a great advertising success, but this non-essential industry is growing exponentially. In 2006, Americans paid over us $11 billion to buy 31 billion litres of bottled water, and they are thirsting for more. But the bubble is bursting. Last month, San Francisco's mayor banned the use of bottled water in government buildings, incriminating billions of disposed plastic bottles that filled landfills. In the us, a staggering 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away each day, a miniscule proportion of them are recycled. Greenhouse gas emission from trucks which transported the bottles across the state--and often across countries--was also a reason for the ban. But equally importantly, the mayor stressed that his city's municipal water came from pristine sources inside a national park. This was as good, if not better, than the bottled water sold by companies, he said. He is not alone. Last year, Salt Lake City's mayor asked public employees to stop supplying bottled water at official events. New York has launched a us $1 million campaign to encourage people to drink its famously clean public water. Another slap has come from top-notch restaurants, which--in reverse snobbery--are refusing to serve bottled water. The worst is coming. Last week, junk food giant Pepsi was forced to admit in the us that Aquafina, its bottled water, is nothing more than tap water. It has agreed to label its bottles to say what it doesn't want to: that Aquafina is tap water from a public water source. The bottled water industry is in damage control mode. But I believe that this scream could easily become a shout as people realise the environmental cost of this product and realise the sheer stupidity of paying dearly for something that is cheaper and readily available. Bottled water is also growing big time in our world. India is said to be the 10th largest bottled water consumer in the world. The demand has increased from two million cases in 1990 to an estimated 68 million cases by 2006. But in India, bottled water is growing as an item of necessity: private industry is meeting the drinking water demand that public utilities don't meet. People are paying prices that they cannot afford because they have no alternative. In India, this water does not come from municipal taps but from groundwater. Companies simply drill a hole in the ground, pump and clean (some-times) to bottle it and then transport it to cities. Simply put, this is the privatisation of drinking water. The business is a rip-off. Take for instance the case of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in drought-prone Kala Dera near Jaipur. Coca-Cola gets its water free except for a tiny cess (for discharging wastewater) it pays to the state pollution control board: a little over Rs 5,000 a year during 2000-02 and Rs 24,246 in 2003. It extracts half a million litres of water every day--at a cost of 14 paise per 1,000 litres. In other words, raw material costs of the Rs 12 per litre Kinley water sold to you and me is just 0.02-0.03 paise. Add to it treatment costs. Even with the state-of-the-art treatment system with reverse osmosis and membranes, the cost of treatment is Rs 0.25 per litre at the most. Plastic bottle is what costs the company--between Rs 3-4 for a one-litre container. Transportation--from the bottling plant to our cities and homes--adds significantly to the costs as does all the sales and advertising pitch. But add up all costs and it is still a dream business, especially in a country with failing public water supply. The fact is that bottled water is no different from water that should come from our taps. The only difference is it is packed in plastic and not conveyed in pipelines. But, while the Indian rich can afford to buy bottled water, the poor cannot. The rich have the choice and they opt out of the failing municipal systems. What is forgotten is that Indian water systems are failing because the rich in the country--who can afford bottled water--are still supplied water at a tenth of what it costs the municipality. Worse, our wastewater is conveyed and pumped from our homes and even treated (at times). None of this cost is recovered. In other words, it is our subsidy which is leading to poorer and poorer delivery from water agencies. It is the rich, who have options to drink bottled, who are failing the system. I am not even talking here of the mountains of plastic waste, the disposal of which isn't paid for. I am talking here of the imperative that we should fix water for all in all taps. Water in bottles costs the earth everywhere. * -- Sunita Narain * * * -- The man who toils on the soil to feed the entire world is forced to commit suicide - What a Shame on Humanity! 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