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The Rain in Spain Falls Wherever the Government Wants
Tens of thousands of demonstrators, including musicians and children, took to the streets of Barcelona yesterday to protest a massive $23 billion water diversion project in Spain. The plan, which is now before the country’s parliament for final approval, would divert the Ebro River in the northeast and involve the construction of 120 dams to […]
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Sunita Dubey, Toxics Link India
Sunita Dubey is a regional coordinator based in New Delhi for Toxics Link India, an information clearinghouse for toxics and related issues. Monday, 26 Feb 2001 DELHI, India As usual, I wake up with Monday blues. It takes me almost an hour to reach my office. Typically I enjoy observing the hustle and bustle of […]
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Won't Somebody Please Take Out the Trash?
The garbage is piling up in New Delhi, India, because the city doesn’t have an adequate waste management system in place to handle the 8,800 tons of trash produced each day by its 13 million residents. The city manages to clear only 5,400 tons a day, and dumps most of the trash into open landfills, […]
