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Urban Water - Basics
- (a) Where does your water come from? How does rainwater eventually find its way to your taps? This animated graphic provides an at-a-glance understanding of the water supply and usage cycle. This graphic was taken from a link of Actewagl, a joint enterprise between AGL and ACTEW Corporation. Click Here
- (b) What does it feel like to be a rainmaker? Try this game where you can make the clouds move and make it rain on the mountains! Click on this interactive learning game. This link has been sourced from the website of South East Water.
- The system of water usage and management in urban areas is complex and includes the protection and replenishment of various water bodies, equitable water distribution and supply, efficient domestic and industrial wastewater treatment, and ensuring sustainable water for all its citizens. To understand more about how cities manage their water, Click Here
- (a)This is a unique video from a camera lowered deep into a borewell to film the flow of water from surrounding aquifers. Click Here
(b)Watch how a borewell is being constructed from scratch in this video. Also analyze the costs and wastage incurred at the expense of our declining groundwater tables. Click Here
- Watch these short videos to get a basic overview about different water bodies, such as tanks, lakes, wells and ways to maintain them. Click Here
- Water is a human right as well as an important resource for the socio-economic development of a country. Only effective water management practices can ensure sustainable water for all, including the poor as well as the multinational conglomerate. In this paradigm, water privatisation has come in for much debate. What does privatization of water mean, especially to the poor in developing countries. Ronald Bailey’s Water is a human right, from reasononline, the online magazine of Reason, presents a few aspects on water privatization. Click here
- Also refer to the article ‘Water – Will privatization work? by D Narasimha Reddy. This document, taken from India Together website, examines the emerging global policy that advocates treating water as a commodity that must be priced.Click Here
- Read also this article titled 'Is it feasible to privatize water?' from Economic Times based on debate on water privitization. Click Here
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