Veolia treats wastewater from Modi’in Illit settlement
Recent research shows that Veolia is involved in “new” Israeli projects in the occupied West Bank. Veolia Water Israel provides services to the illegal settlement of Modi’in Illit, and Veolia Transportation Israel operates a total of seven – instead of four – bus lines that run through Palestinian land. Who Profits? – a research project [...]
Poor Water Governance and Scarce Water: A Status Quo in Indian Himalayas
This discourse questions the concept of the reform in water sector as said in the constitution of India and the status of drinking water in its eleven Himalayan Mountain states. It talks about the village level governance, their capacity and institutional arrangement that leads to sustainable water supply models to serve the needs of communities [...]
Can Water Dissolve Geo-Political Boundaries? Part 2
Transboundary Water Conflicts Transboundary Water Conflicts are different from Water Conflicts. Water Conflicts are commonest of social and territorial disputes between ‘users’ of water in history. You can imagine the definition of ‘users’ as extensive as you want. Water is required for consumptive use (drinking, sanitation, washing, agriculture etc.) but it is also required for [...]
Can Water Dissolve Geo-political Boundaries? Part 1
Water can dissolve material boundaries – well known Water is known as universal ‘solvent’ as it can dissolve a lot of substances. This is a scientific fact but even if not very clearly realized, this scientific fact works subtly in our cultures and societies since prehistory. The whole idea of cleaning things by washing and [...]
To Drink Water From Air
The picture shows an atmospheric water generator, commercially known as Yeti AC-12, which can sit snugly in the corner of a room and generate as much as 10 gallons of pure drinking water per day just from atmospheric moisture. It runs on electricity and the power consumption is well within affordability of most people. If [...]
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