Ganga
Newsletter No. 62; IRBMS
August- November, 2017
The Siang River has turned muddy due to China’s alleged Tunnel
Commentary
One of my friends asked me “how important our it is another environmentalist activism?” He
water crisis is?” I asked him “why are you asking remained silent for some time and then said, “I
such question?” His reply was “in paper now- a - think it is serious issue, because although it is not a
days I see lot of issues are raised related to water.” major problem to the majority of urban Indians
Immediately I told him that “then it must be a but it surfaced with regularity at different context.”
serious issue.” He said, “but Newspapers are I asked “like what?” His reply was “Sometimes our
notorious to raising non-issue as issue. That is why food prices surge due to drought and then
I am asking you." I understood his apprehension sometimes due to flood. Sometimes large parts of
but my curiosity was to know how the common the country is facing severe drought and some
citizens are looking at this problem. I asked “what other times other parts of the country facing flood.
are you thinking? Is it worth to spend time on it or Sometimes Tamilnadu and Karnataka is fighting
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