Entries tagged ‘Water’
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Forefront Intro: Waving or Drowning?
Who do Chennai’s waterways belong to — the slum-dwellers who currently live along them, or the richer residents who may soon make their homes there? Kavitha Rajagopalan investigates in the sixth and final Forefront of the Informal City Dialogues.
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With Municipal Sewage Overwhelmed, Makeshift Pipes Channel Filth to the Sea
In Chennai, a city famous for its beaches, an ecological disaster is festering as the official sewage utility fails to provide service and residents jerry-rig their own solutions.
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As a Community’s Trawlers are Sent to Port, Its Bustling Fish Market Dries Out
For the people who live around Kasimedu harbor, a 45-day government ban on deep-sea fishing grinds life to an annual halt, and leaves their one-industry town high and dry.
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