Water Quality Issues in India: Geological, Historical and Modern Perspectives
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Water Quality Issues in India:Geological, Historical and Modern Perspectives
Gina Accorsi, Lee Corbett, Sophie Greene, and Ben RukavinaOctober 15, 2014
Geological context:Pollution from
geologic sources
Historical context:India’s history, religion,
and water law
Modern context:Poor sanitation and malnutrition,
Water financing
The Future:What happens next?
Who pays for it?
?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vc4D2tu5f9I/Tk8_ZEJ1hWI/AAAAAAAAA2A/-cCH1i9OI7E/s1600/Map_of_India_Bengal.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyevjRiz1UI
The Great Baths of Mohenjo Daro~3,700 BP, served at least 35,000 residents from the Stone age to Bronze Age
The ArthashastraAncient Indian treatus on economic, military, and land policy, written in Sanscrit, from around 300 BC
The Last Mughal EmperorBahadur Shah Zafar II (1775 – 1862), in power during the fall of the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) to Great Brittan, and the ancient Mughal water gardens.
Sutlej Valley, 1857Painting from “Results of a scientific mission to India and high Asia - Atlas Part II,” and a colonial era canal in India.
The World Bank
“When the private sector engages in water provision, greater disparities in access and cost follow.” –Al Jazeera
“The [new World Bank] draft policies provide an opt-out option for governments that do not wish to provide essential land and natural resource rights protections to Indigenous Peoples.”
- The Times India
Childhood Malnutrition: The Problem
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Childhood Malnutrition: The Problem
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Childhood Malnutrition: Comparisons
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Childhood Malnutrition: Consequences
DALY = Disability-adjusted life year
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Childhood Malnutrition: Forecasts
MDG = Millennium Development Goals
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Childhood Malnutrition: Forecasts
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/SOUTHASIAEXT/Resources/223546-1147272668285/IndiaUndernourishedChildrenFinal.pdf
Video LinksCNN video about water quality, the “daily struggle” (3:10):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEyxW73F5Fc
Financial Times video about polluted rivers (4:54):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNSOg5XJh4
Overview video about Arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh (10:18):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyevjRiz1UI
New York Times slideshow of India water pollution issues:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation-in-india-may-afflict-well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html#slideshow/100000002994895/100000002994980
Responsibility of various agencies in drinking water
supply
http://www.nistads.res.in/indiasnt2008/t6rural/t6rur7.htm
Percent distribution of rural households by collection time and person who collects the drinking water.
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2005-06
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2005-06
Percent distribution of rural households by collection time and person who collects the drinking water.
Percentage of affected habitations chemical contamination
Drinking water quality in rural India: Issues and Approaches Indira Khurana and Romit Sen, Water Aid, 2008.
State wise Cases Due to Cholera in India 2007 and Acute Diarrhoeal Disease in 2006
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2005-06
Percent distribution of rural households by treatment of drinking water in 1998-99 and 2005-06 respectively
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 2005-06
Schematic representation of areas which requiretechnological intervention
http://www.nistads.res.in/indiasnt2008/t6rural/t6rur7.htm
Locations of Desalination plantsBhabha Atomic Research Centre
References From Ben• http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/aug/14/brics-development-
bank-imf-world-bank-dollar• https://www.opendemocracy.net/files/14-12-11%20Lakhimpur-AASU
%20protest%20against%20NHPC%20Big%20Dam.jpg• http://www.channelstv.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/World-Bank.jpg• http://www.kval.com/news/local/125824458.html• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/29/india.randeepramesh2• http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/4/water-
managementprivatizationworldbankgroupifc.html• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/World-Bank-accused-of-
ignoring-rights-of-the-poor/articleshow/39299074.cms• http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2012/mar/14/
controversial-dam-projects-in-pictures• http://www.worldbank.org/en/about• https://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/displacement-
and-development-construction-sardar-dam