Environmental Extremes Between battling authorities who have closed off access to their only source of livelihood, harassment by the local mafia and a drug problem, this is the harsh reality of being a ragpicker at India’s Deonar dump. By Shamani Joshi; photos by Arpita De18 September 2019, 4:20amShareTweet ALL PHOTOS BY ARPITA DE This article is part […]
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Tackling India’s towering landfills takes cultural innovation
In Delhi, India, the capital of the world’s fastest growing economy, there’s a towering symbol of the environmental cost of development: tons of festering, toxic trash, piled up 10 stories high, with more and more added every day. Efforts have been made to turn that trash into energy-producing fuel, but cultural hurdles remain. Special correspondent […]
India’s sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water
By Jessie Yeung, Helen Regan and Swati Gupta, CNN Updated 2004 GMT (0404 HKT) June 19, 2019 Srini Swaminathan, who took this photograph of Chembarambakkam reservoir from a plane, told CNN: “I have been living here since 1992 and have never seen anything like this before.” New Delhi (CNN)The floor of the Chembarambakkam reservoir is cracked open, […]