Look out of the window the next time you travel by road or by train anywhere in India. Hit a human settlement, and you will see, heaps of plastic coloured garbage apart, pools of dirty black water and drains that go nowhere. They go nowhere because we have forgotten a basic fact: if there are humans, there will be excreta. Indeed, we have also forgotten another truth about the so-called modern world: if there is water use, there will be waste. Roughly 80 per cent of the water that reaches households flows out as waste.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/water-water-editorial
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/sunita-narain
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/central-chronicle-bhopal
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/river-pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/yamuna
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/drainage
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cse-study
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sunita-narain
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/delhi
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agra-d