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India’s Water Wars

by Sharon Marshall » 25 September 2016 at 1:30 pm

The outbreak of violence and the burning of 35 Tamil-owned buses in Bengaluru (also known as Bangalore) earlier this month is just the tip of the iceberg in India’s crippling water crisis. A legal dispute over the Cauvery (Kaveri) River in India’s south has suffered from more than a century of bureaucratic corruption, mismanagement and […]

Plastic Water Bottles, Begone! Travelers Against Plastic Campaign Launched

by Annika Hipple » 2 April 2013 at 5:36 pm

Purchasing a plastic bottle of water or two while traveling may not seem like a huge deal on an individual level, but multiply that by the number of travelers crisscrossing the globe every day and the impact is massive. On a global scale, 2.7 million tons of plastic are used annually for water bottles. Of […]

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India’s Water Wars

Plastic Water Bottles, Begone! Travelers Against Plastic Campaign Launched

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