Photos and movies on current water topics in India

The Economist's special report on water in their May 20th edition keeps up the magazine's high quality coverage of issues. 

Some interesting points from the report:

The report covers water across the globe and from all aspects, technical, social, institutional etc. India figures at many places, both in good and bad light.

In India there is a growing alarm at the growth of Fluoride and arsenic contamination of groundwater. According to the report, these are showing up as issues in groundwater in several places across the world and not just India. Read More

The Story of Bottled Water: How "Manufactured Demand" pushes what we don’t need and destroys what we need most

On March 22nd – World Water Day – The Story of Stuff Project released The Story of Bottled Water, a 7-minute animated film, that takes a provacative, humorous look at bottled water. Hosted by Annie Leonard, the creator of the internet hit The Story of Stuff, the film was co-produced with five leading sustainability advocacy organizations: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group, Food & Water Watch, Polaris Institute and Pacific Institute.

The Story of Bottled Water employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand, specifically how Americans are influenced to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week, when they can get it almost free from a tap.Read More

An NGO called Project Survival Media has organized a terrific opportunity for young journalists and others. National origin is NOT a bar!Read More

Guest post from S.Vishwanath of the Rainwater Club and Arghyam
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Dear All,

The Water and Sanitation Channel on youtube-
http://www.youtube.com/user/zenrainman- reached a landmark today with
the number of videos uploaded reaching the 300 mark.

This has been an initiative to document and highlight efforts ongoing
in such fields as rainwater harvesting, eco-san, grey-water reuse,
groundwater recharge , ecological flows in rivers and such allied
issues.

It has now hit a steady view rate of 400 a day and has overall been
viewed nearly 200,000 times . It is the 20th most viewed ALL time
channel from India in the Reporters section and the 20th most
subscribed in the Reporters section ( with such other eminent channels
ahead such as bodybuilding and punjabi cute boy :) )

The latest video uploaded is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEwiG9tAacs&feature=channel_page
on the Chalakudy river in Kerala and to understand the construct and
imagination of a river in modern times.

One of the most popular videos has been on the guppy fish and it has a
young audience to thank that for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7V76FcL2QQ&feature=channel_page
The channel has been the first to highlight such technologies and efforts asRead More