Author: Narain Sunita
Place: New Delhi
Publisher: Centre For Science and Environment
Year: 2012
Volume: I (I of II)
Pages: 286
ISBN: 978-81-86906-55-2
Keyword: Water Sewage
Classification: 363.79
Shelf: C3R1
Accession No: B911
Contents: Preface, Chap 1: Pipe dream, Chap 2: Hurtling into the aquifer, Chap 3: The water-waste connection, Chap 4: The real excreta of progress, Chap 5: PPP dream, Chap 6: Faeconomics, Chap 7: The agenda for water to water, References
Abstract: While researching this book, we have found countless instqances where a city”s drain – called a nullah today – was actually once a river. Delhi knows today the Najafgarh drain – which spills the city”s guts into the Yamuna. but what is not known is that this ”drain” has its source in a jheel (lake) a river once flowed from – the Sahibi. Now the Sahibi is gone; what has replaced it in living memory is a drain, which is not water, only pollution. Worse, new Gurgaon. arising out of the nothing that surrounded the hills of Delhi, is now dumping its sewage into the same Najafgarh Jheel.