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Susan Sharma
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September 02, 2011
........."This is where policy gets practice fundamentally and fatally wrong. This is not useless wasteland as the revenue office described it when it gave it to the thermal power company at a pittance. This is highly productive land, both in terms of
its ecological functions and economic uses. But we cannot see it or won’t because it is not in our interest.
Just consider. This dead swamp is a living sponge, which soaks water, reducing the intensity of floods; the delicately maintained freshwater balance reduces the advance of salinity, which would infiltrate groundwater and ruin drinking water sources. This is
a living ecosystem. It plays critical life functions...................
-Sunita Narain
Read more at the link
http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/lessons-kakarapalli
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