| #1642552 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 2012-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.40 x1.10 x9.30l,1.60 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| animal and industrial waste as it courses more than 1500 miles across the ...|By daveyd|The Ganges. Revered beyond all other waterways it is now a receptacle for every descriptive of human, animal and industrial waste as it courses more than 1500 miles across the Indian subcontinent and through the sewage disposal site of fifteen million human waste producers in the capitol ci|||Renewable Natural Resources Foundation 2013 Excellence in Journalism Award||"Colopy offers a whirlwind tour both beautiful and troubling.... [she] interacts as a Westerner in the South Asian world with grace, and shares what she has learned with thoughtful cl
Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Dirty, Sacred Rivers: Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis | Cheryl Colopy. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
