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Media has tried to cover water and environment sector for a long
time. Within environment and water sector is urban water sector;
this is generating a series of events that are converted into news.
The underlying problem in relation to his coverage on urban water
issues as news is there is little knowledge about media's process
of selecting water issues as news. And, what influences this
coverage has on urban water management. This thesis attempts to
find answers to this information gap. The study found that the
process of news making requires new, unusual and controversial
events that are selected through a series of gates; influenced by
individual journalist's traits and flair, combined with external
and internal influences of market, politics, public and idealism.
In urban water, events related to crisis, controversy, tariff,
pollution and private sector participation are considered news
worthy. However, consistency of coverage is lacking and the media
loses interest in the issues. Mainstream media is poorly equipped
to address urban water issues and requires to be trained. However,
news media does influence urban water management.
Highlighting how people work together to secure water for all
through innovative approaches in basins, this book draws from a
cross-section of 43 case studies. It also highlights challenges in
improving governance and water performance and illustrates examples
of new approaches and practices that basin managers are now
applying to secure water for all. The solutions presented are home
grown, building on international experience rather than transplants
from elsewhere. Top experts have authored this colorful volume that
brings wealth of intelligence on the subject of growing global
importance and includes messages from a host of world authorities
on water management. Copublication partners for this important work
include: the International Union for Conservation of Nature and
Natural Resources (IUCN), the Asian Development Bank, Network of
Asian River Basin Organizations (NARBO), and the Water and Nature
Initiative.
Springs of Life is a book about water in all its complexities. It
is an exhaustive account of water in India, and documents the
natural beauty of the water bodies, the ways in which communities
live and interact with water, particularly in hostile ecosystems,
the resilience of people living in water stressed regions and their
common sense solutions to local water problems. ""Springs of Life""
is a rare combination of an academic book with a coffee table
presentation, for the first time integrating academic rigor with
field reality and pictures from the ground (over 600 colored
photographs!). Without binding itself to any one discipline of
irrigation or water supply, the book looks at the entire spectrum
of water in the country. The research is substantiated by evidence
and stories from the field, with pictures taken by traveling more
than 25,000 kilometers by road across the length and breadth of the
country. ""Springs of Life"" is about India, but this is where
about one-sixth of the world's population lives, making it a vast
resource of experiences in dealing with issues related to water.
India is blessed with nearly all types of agro-climatic zones -
from the cold desert to the hot desert, from mountains that rise to
eight thousand meters, to a coastline of more than seven thousand
kilometers. India also has the place with the highest rainfall in
the world and the largest riverine island. India in a way is a
microcosm of the world in terms of the diversity of natural
resources and ecosystems.
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