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		<title>Bill gets it wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates says half the kids in the world who don’t get vaccines are in India. This is odd since India supplies 60 per cent of the world’s vaccines and about 80 per cent of annual UN vaccine purchases come from India. Clearly vaccines produced in India are not used where they are needed most. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=806&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t trust the Govt to do it</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior policy analyst and governance expert from Singapore was in town recently. He was talking of how development is as focused as it is in his island country while we continue to have the anarchy that we have here in India. He talked of how good governance and an accountable bureaucracy is simply impossible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=793&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can we learn from this rich past?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you travel the dry water parts districts of the Rann of Kutch, you would be moved by the hospitality of the locals who offer lotas of water and jaggery with a smile—and refuse to take money for it. The practice resonates across the region, of earning punya by quenching thirst of all beings—human, animal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=784&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is no Sci-fi story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; By 2030 it is not difficult to imagine a situation where we have made no progress in providing basic water services in any parts of the poor third world. We would not have made or created laws to protect source water. We would not have forced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=780&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is anyone listening in on the water crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All things are interconnected. Everything goes somewhere. There is no such thing as a free lunch, nature bats last. These are the four laws of ecology. These come to mind when you think of the three scenarios that are emerging on water across India and the rest of the developing world that is seeing much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=778&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water is a human right, right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The global water justice movement is coming together around a common goal: to have water declared a human right and to have this acknowledgement enshrined at every level of government from local regulation, to constitution, to global governance. Water is not at present a recognized human right. This has allowed decision-making over water policy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=772&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two kinds of sides on Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day there was in town a senior water policy expert from Singapore. He was at a water conference, and there were questions from participants on whether it is right to privatize water. He seemed of the view that that is a good way to go. Indeed Karnataka has quietly, without telling the Press, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=769&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mother Earth is a living being.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a moving Declaration that was adopted by the World People&#8217;s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has asked the United Nations to adopt this for all the rest of the world. We the peoples and nations of Earth: considering that we are all part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=701&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We’d be better off not planting trees-III: The reasons for resistance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it is a combination of resistance from managers and a lack of certainty on what it can mean if a manager lower down the hierarchy took that decision to make the change at one hotel, when the company’s HQ is based elsewhere in India or the world. Now who would want to incur [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=587&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We’d be better off not planting trees-II: There’s more to it…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I took a factor of 2.5 to cover centralized air-conditioning, the pumps, and the array of cooking and other appliances that help a 5-star hotel serve its customers. That totted up to about 4.5 million units a year. Not much as money goes… about Rs 30 lacs a month, or Rs 3.6 crore a year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=zedgraffiti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=28365110&amp;post=579&amp;subd=zedgraffiti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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