The Contemporary Water Crisis Of Mumbai

The city of Mumbai has seen much growth in the past years. A string of elegant hotels have been set up for travelers and high-class business men. An ever growing, top of the line airport has been built for those coming in and out of the country. From the outside, Mumbai seems to have taken a liking to being internationally integrated with the rest of world, otherwise known as globalization. This is not the case, however; as seen in Katherine Boo’s novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. This novel is set in a slum right next to the Mumbai International Airport called

Water scarcity is an environmental problem that reaches around the globe. This lack of water is called the World Water Crisis. In the U.S, people are privileged enough to be able to use clean water for many things. However, the U.S is effected by water scarcity as well as countries who are underdeveloped and aren 't as privileged as we are. Only 2.5 percent of Earth 's water is fresh water, of which industrial uses account for 22 percent of available fresh water, domestic use requires only 8 percent, and the rest-over two-thirds of our demand-is used for agriculture. Water is said to be a right for all living things, however, many underdeveloped countries in the world, such as Ghana or Rajasthan, are victims of corporations who come

Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz in her article Water-On Women's Burdens, Humans' Rights, and Companies Profit claims that the privatization of fresh water supplies would be disastrous because water is a resource that is a necessity for life. She thinks that water should be free for the public and that is that it is wrong to charge people for such a critical resource. She states that “the commercialization of water resources has resulted in sobering problems”. Claiming that private companies have used up farmers irrigation water and entire rivers had dried (Gündüz 139). She concludes her argument by emphasizing that water not only has an effect to the poor, but on women.The author Zuhal Yeşilyurt Gündüz develops her claim by appealing to the reader's

My name is Vynateya Purimetla, and I am an eighth grader currently attending East Hills Middle School, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Presently, we are in a hydrogeology unit and we have been researching global water crises around the world and the effects they have on people who inhabit those regions. I am writing this letter to address the issues of inadequate sanitation, untreated sewage in groundwater, and holy rivers being polluted due to a host of reasons. These problems are occurring in both rural and urban areas, and are affecting more than 80% of the Indian population who depend on water polluted with untreated sewage, nitrate, and agricultural runoff for basic survival needs, (The Huffington Post). As the leader of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, I hope that some of the solutions outlined in this letter could be helpful to you in solving India’s water crisis.

While it may be easier to persuade yourself that Boo’s published stories are works of fiction, her writings of the slums that surround the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s airport are very, very real. Katherine Boo’s book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” does not attempt to solve problems or be an expert on social policy; instead, Boo provides the reader with an objective window into the battles between extremities of wealth and poverty. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” then, exposes the paucity and corruption prevalent within India.

Globally, over seven hundred and eighty-three million people do not have access to clean water (The Water Project, 2016). Millions of people have to struggle endlessly to fill up pails of water for themselves and their families; however, this does not happen in America. Water contamination and access, or lack thereof, is a third world issue. The United States is a global empire, wealthy, and the land of opportunity; Flint, Michigan became a local cesspool, impoverished, and without basic drinking water. The visual of desolate villagers walking miles for water is not the universal or unique image anymore. The ordinary town of Flint became a national icon for water scarcity and paranoia. Water contamination, disease outbreak and widespread panic

As an American citizen, I never question the water my state government provided me with. Also, I took for granted that I was receiving purified water, and believe that I did not have to inquire about the water safety level. However, after reading the Kristen Silven article, “Flint Water Crisis”, I felt infuriated learning that an American community had been poisoned, because of their government inadequacy to provide them with proper water. Also, I believe it was inhuman that the government neglected citizens and their duties for nearly 18 months. Furthermore, I felt empathic for the 666 homes that have shown high levels of lead poison in their drinking water. I could not imagine being a mother watching my child be poisoned and not have the

In America, water is a valuable commodity use in various ways from drinking, washing, or assisting in our food production. However, the water crisis is occurring in the United States; our cities are affected by inadequate water provision due to the growth in the communities which places a demand on the water system (Sutter, 2010). Even through America water crisis exists, insufficient systems, water pollution, and economic cost can delay a solution to these problems. What is a crisis Webster Dictionary define a crisis as the point of time when it is to be determined whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate (Webster2014).

The thesis, The Water Crisis in Third World Countries, By Monterey Starkey from the Honors program at Liberty University describes the difficulty of obtaining adequate drinking water and presents solutions to this issue. Starkey begins by noting the importance water has on the human body. Additionally, Starkey explains, fresh water is becoming scarce which makes water transportation difficult to needy areas. Aquifers and rainwater are possible solutions to water transportation (Starkey 9). The cost of water in poverty-stricken are much higher than those in rich areas (Starkey 10). The article also implies water shortages affect community growth (15). Starkey believes filtering, boiling, chlorinating, educating, harvesting, roof catching and

Thus, it’s stated that water plays a key role in this world mainly in case of urban development. In this book, Matthew Gandy gives us a clearer and closer look at six major metropolises and their relationship with and to water. We learnt about Paris, Lagos, Berlin, Los Angelo’s, Mumbai and London. in depth. We get acquainted to Paris’s sewers to Berlin’s lakes along with Lagos’s strong ties to malaria, urban sprawl in London, concrete in Los Angeles and finally social inequality in Mumbai are explained to us in an intricate way via water related connections that ultimately ties them together. Gandy asserts that examining the changing paths water takes through urban spaces gives us new ways of viewing and understanding cities and how they evolve.

Economic relations and resource management, 2. Ideology and culture including the way people think about the environment and water rights, 3.political agents like the state, transnational actors and organizations involved in water disputes and trade 4.the transnational social movements which endorse and resist water privatization, and 5.the power relations which engender unequal access to safe water (Bywater, 2008).

Worldwide one point one billion people live in countries that do not have access to clean safe water according to the Cato Institute. Yet with this, Cato goes on to state that it is due to bad policies that currently stand in the way. In essence Cato is arguing that privatizing the water industry would reduce that. “Cherrapunji, India, the wettest place on earth, suffers from recurrent water shortages” Cato continues with the theme of laying out logical explanations as to why water is alright to be privatized. Their use of this compels the reader to follow the train of thought and beginning looking t the benefits. If the policies in India have led to the wettest place on Earth suffering from water shortages under public policy, we would be

Water is a human right, not a commodity. It is the essence of life, sustaining every living being on the planet. Without it we would have no plants, no animals, no people. However, while water consumption doubles every twenty years our water sources are being depleted, polluted and exploited by multinational corporations. Water privatization has been promoted by corporations and international lending institutions as the solution to the global water crises but the only one’s who benefit from water privatization are investors and international banks. The essential dilemma of privatization is that the profit interests of private water utilities ultimately jeopardizes the safeguarding of the human right to water. Access to clean, sufficient

The solutions that are proposed by community members and officials, are gender-sensitive polices that describe how both men and women should do their part in an effort to restore clean water and help out India in making it socially just. According to the article “A 3-year journey from water scarcity to security”, Santosh Gavale, a resident of Manyali village in India states that there are policies enacted to include that both

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Private Limited (HCCBPL), commenced operations at its bottling plant at Plachimada in the southern state of Kerala in India. After the work commenced in 2000 the area surrounding the plant began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as the groundwater in the area was contaminated and toxic waste was released from the plant itself (base.d-p-h.info).