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Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/
Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa
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Soter is most welcome to Moira as I have a well that never dries (partly
due to my rain-water harvesting technique and the Miracle of Fatima PLUS the
newly commissioned water tank which is connected direct to the NH-17 by-pass
at Mapusa/Bastora water line and which overflows every alternate day
simulating a major water fall that can be the envy of Goa, specially of
Porvorim residents.
Ah ! Narvekar and the good professors !
Too good to be true - indeed
floriano
goasuraj
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From: "soter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:46 AM
Subject: [Goanet] No water supply to Porvorim
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Photos from the 43rd Mando Festival, Dec 9-10, 2009
at the Kala Academy (5 pm onwards)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/
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Even as the Hon'ble High Court of Bombay at Goa has directed the Prinicpal
chief engineeer PWD to file an affidavit within one week on the steps
taken to asssure a constant supply of potable water to residents of
Porvorim and Mapusa, several areas of Porvorim continue to have no water
supply for the third day today. Last weekend there was no water for four
days citing some breakdown. Ready made excuses like turbidity, low
voltage, pipe burst, pump brekdown are common and there is no one to take
account whether these are facts. The HC has observed that access to safe
and potable drinking water falls under the ambit of Right to Life as is
guaranteed in article 21 of the Constitution of India. The MLA Dayanand
Narvekar is now inciting people to agitate but this was the man just two
years ago was pushing the IT Park at Socorro. He had claimed that there
is ample water and activists raising the issue were ridiculed by his 2
retired professors and a bunch of stooges. Where are th
ey now?
Guys like Frederick have problems when we raise the issue of migrant
influx. What is his solution to the water crisis now in as early as
October -December after a extremely good rainfall? Does the right to
migrate anywhere in India mean that one goes and deprives the local
population of their fundamental rights? Do the Goans have a right to
protect their livelihood and culture? Frederick needs a dose of feni to
come to his senses. A Telengana type relentless agitation seems the only
solution for Goans. The options are fast narrowing.
-soter
