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Dirty, Sacred Rivers - Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis (Hardcover, New)
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Dirty, Sacred Rivers - Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis (Hardcover, New)
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Rivers have traditionally been revered by the people of the Indian
subcontinent, though in recent decades, the region's rivers have
deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross
mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges
and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for
a burgeoning population. Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's
looming water crisis, tracing a journey through the vast watershed
of the Ganges, one of the great rivers of South Asia and to many
people the holiest. To tell the story of this river basin, Cheryl
Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps
around the rough embankments of India's poorest state in a jeep
with social workers; and takes a boat excursion through the
Sundarbans, the mangrove forests at the end of the Ganges
watershed. She lingers in key places and hot spots in the debate
over water: * Delhi-a megacity on the banks of one the Ganges' most
revered tributaries, the Yamuna-and a paradigm of water
mismanagement * Bihar, where the Buddha gained enlightenment. It's
now India's poorest, most crime-ridden state, thanks largely to the
blunders of engineers who tried to tame powerful Himalayan rivers
with embankments but instead created annual floods * Kathmandu-the
home of one of the most elegant and ancient traditional water
systems on the subcontinent, now the site of a water development
boondoggle * The Nepal Himalaya, whose sweeping glaciers are
starting to melt, threatening villagers in the high mountains A
first-person narrative holds together disparate places and issues.
The reader meets a cast of characters, ranging from the most humble
members of South Asian society to engineers and former ministers.
Some of these men and women are heroes, bucking current trends,
trying to find rational ways to manage rivers and water. They are
reviving ingenious methods of water management that thrived for
centuries in South Asia and may point the way to water
sustainability and healthy rivers.
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