GOLDEN JUBILEE LECTURES ON ENVIRONMENT

The agenda to build a water prudent society
Speaker: Ms. Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Chair: Chair: Shri BG Verghese, veteran journalist

People in cities get water in their houses, discharge waste, and see their rivers die. They don't make the connection between flush toilets and dying rivers. Ferreting out data from government offices, CSE mapped 71 cities, to uncover innumerable cases where what we know today as a drain was once a river. The Report calls for decisive and wholesale change, lest we stand accused of deliberate "˜hydrocide'.