DEAD RIVERS, SEWAGE and PLASTIC BAGS

India’s pollution is out of control and rivers are dying.

As an example: three billion liters of waste are pumped into Delhi's Yamuna River each day.
Like many rivers in India, New Delhi's body of water is little more than a flowing garbage dump, with fully 57 percent of the city's waste finding its way to the Yamuna. Cascades of garbage on its banks, makes it unaccesable and smells to hell. Most rivers also Mutha and Mula in Pune are so contaminated they can hardly sustain marine life.
"The rivers are dead, they are just just has not been cremated
Fully 80 percent of urban waste in India ends up in the country's rivers, and unchecked urban growth across the country combined with poor government oversight means the problem is only getting worse. A growing number of bodies of water in India are unfit for human use.


Much of the river pollution problem in India comes from untreated sewage. Samples taken recently from the Ganga River near Varanasi show that levels of fecal coliform, a dangerous bacterium that comes from untreated sewage, were some 3,000 percent higher than what is considered safe for bathing. Only 55 percent of the 15 million Delhi residents are connected to the city's sewage system. The remainder flush their bath water, waste water and just about everything else down pipes and into drains -- many of them open -- that empty into the Yamuna. Eleven of the 17 sewage treatment plants in the city are underutilized with a quarter of the plants running at less than 30 percent capacity. As it turns out, the city's decrepit sewage system is simply unable to deliver sewage to the plants. The lines are "silted and settled...and are corroded.


A further problem is presented by the sprawling slums of New Delhi that are unconnected to the system. The sewage from "1,500 unplanned colonies find its way into the drains and then into the river



There is little city residents can do. A confusing web of political appointees, civil servants, and weak elected officials with short term limits makes accountability almost impossible. At least eight separate agencies from the city, state and federal level oversee are handling the case, competing for funds.
And even in the most sophsticated areas as the industrial parks of Gurgaon you will find the most splendid new towers of the continent , directly aside of a wild wast dump ... and what is worse nobody seems to care.

Experts believe spending more money into building sewage diversion and treatment infrastructure is a waste of time. She calls for rethinking the entire pollution control paradigm, building small-scale waste treatment plants on a neighborhood scale and re-using the water locally.



And people stilla are forced to wash in the silty water, because there is no other water available.

VEG-ART III

Puneites arrangements

BLUELINES (Continuation)

After the blueline busses were supprimated, the governement of Delhi detected a lack of buses and therfore and that is now the original citation of the newspaper

"Govt to introduce extra buses on Delhi roadsDelhi Government is running extra buses from Thursday to overcome the shortage of public transport in the capital, after half blueline buses went off the roads fearing action. The state government is also contemplating invoking Essential Services Maintenance Act to ease the plight of the commuter. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has added five additional trains to handle the passenger load"

I thought I learned things in India , but will always be surprised about the ease of governemental decission and the flexibility of the Indian to overcome the consequences

STIIL LEARNING

Being just an uneducated western person , I would think that if I eliminate 2000 buses in a city as Delhi , that would be catastrophic but 5 additional trains and a contemplation of the essential services maintanence act... I like this Indian administrative English, will do.

What about the people not in the region of the trainstation and all people who have still not put any wheels under the Essential Services Maintenance Act

FLOWER-ART

For my beloved

DEVO-ART

Devo-art form Pune India

Dedicated to the one I love and have snubbed.

VEG-ART II

All made from Puneites

Crackdown on Bluelines

Five days after on 11 year old boy died under the wheels of one of the Blueline buses, the Delhi governement (Mrs Dikshit..... this name I would try to get it changed because in the combination of Dutch and English it is not a real nice family name) has decided to put an end to the terror of the buses. The move cpmes after the outcry of seveal casualities provoked by buses. Till july 2 2007 the killer fleet has caused already 59 fatal accidents, while the figure was 45 for the corresponding period in 2006 And only now the police started reacting and 2000 Blueline drivers have been prosecuted for trafic offences in the last 2 days.
It is difficult to understand why now these buses should be eliminated. In NDTV with hidden camera, observing one driver, without showing his licence and his name , he took up a racr with 3 other buses, did not stop at bus stops because of the risk of losing the race. After this fun he started talking on his mobile phone during driving. All this can be omitted by simple disiplinarry mesaures and there is no need to eliminate the bus operation. What is worse and what is in direct responsabilty of this irresponsable governement is the deplorable status of the buses and there is one attitude and this is typical for India in total, the bus never stop on the bus stop but more or less in the middle of the street, provoking that the passengers standing in the middle of the street and all the trafic has to go around it. I had already 2 nearly accidents with my bicycle trying to curve around these jams. Also here simple discipline measures would help a lot.
The pictures shows the sad condition of the buses, most of the pictures come from the buses in Pune , but in Delhi the situation is not better and Gurgaon , they dont have this problem because of the lack of public transport.... made Delhi is looking for this solution.

INDIA ....I STARTED TO HATE

No money for any real improvments on the street, people dying on the street ( would like to have some pictures of that ?)
On my way home, I had to walk on the asphalt of the street because the side walk and even the area beside the side walk is in the rainy season , in in an desastereous condition. Just walking on the street , having the unadjusted lights in my face, I felt in to a pothole and hurt myself badly .... this is the end of the love story ... now only facts will dominate the posts

VEG-ART I

Veg-Art Pune Creations