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Recover Better With Nature: Personhood Rights to Rivers can help

It is now clear that when humans shut down, rivers flow healthy.  The evidences that we have gathered during the Covid19 lockdown should be lesson enough for us to reimagine our approach to save our rivers. Reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and abatement of water & air pollution have

The Mask: Where Is It Going?

Conservationists from across the globe have warned that ever since the COVID response begun, the oceans have been at the receiving end of more plastic pollution through discarded disposable face masks and gloves. With the lockdown being in force for about six weeks now, dolphins have started to show

Nature gets a breathing space, but for how long?

Scientists and others concerned about climate change kept on urging human race to shift to greener paths of development; this pandemic sent out a strong message and has forced the economic growth to slow down reducing GHG emissions drastically.   China enforced the first lockdown in response to the

In India, fight against corona is a fight for water, against inequality

In the country, 7 percent of the population are without even a basic water supply close to home.  About 81 percent rural Indians don’t have a tap connection at home. Indians woke up very late to the threat of corona pandemic, in the first week of March. The first thing that people were advised to

Healthy and free-flowing rivers are essential to meet the SDGs

This month two global news about rivers attracted my attention.  One, the Colorado River, for dying a slow death due to climate change; and two, 25 Cuban rivers for showing signs of good health due to years of sustainable farming.  At a time when the world is facing unprecedented water cri

Rejecting the Bristol Airport Expansion: A vote for nature!

Surprising as it may sound, bats and birds have just won a battle over an airport. As the world grapples with a state of climate emergency and the current model of growth is being challenged worldwide, councilors of the North Somerset council in the UK have rejected the expansion plan of the Bristol

A water policy for the youth in India

The new National Water Policy must have a special chapter for the youth of the country.  This is not just because the youth need to take leadership in managing our water resources since India is set to become the youngest country in 2020, but also because the youth is fast disconnecting from the na

Cities , Climate , Disasters , Water / 11/22/2019
A slum after the storm!

How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha coasts, the fear of the storm was still reflecting on faces of people residing in Pandakudia slum in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.  We visit

A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing Day Zero

Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero.  In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already in, the Cape Town kind of measures need to be adopted with immediate effect.  On the 1st of August as I landed at Chennai airport, I was expecting some big

Let’s redefine public spaces, let’s bring back urban forests

There are two important ways in which we can bring in lasting change in the way cities develop: forestry and conservation of water bodies.  The more these resources we have in our cities, the more will be our ability to make the cities grow sustainably while fighting with the impacts of climate

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