At the conclusion of the World Water Forum Alex Stonehill and Ernest Waititu, who worked on the Pulitzer Center’s East Africa Water Wars reporting project, traveled to India to cover the growing sanitation problems the country is facing. Their reports are collected below.
“India kills her goddess,” by Ernest Waititu
NEW DELHI, India – Some hundreds of meters after Wazirabad Bridge, a furious mass of darkened fluid tears through the huge concrete drain to the valley where Yamuna River once used to piously meander… Continue reading
“Delhi’s Dark Waters,” by Alex Stonehill and Ernest Waititu
Like many world cities, Delhi was born on the banks of a river. The Yamuna, a tributary of the Ganges, originates in the pristine foothills of the Himalayas, and flows south through farmlands until it feeds into the Indian capitol city.
But as Delhi’s population has exploded – increasing sevenfold in the last 50 years, the river has become little more than a massive sewer, sucked dry of its clean water just as it enters the city, and filled back up with mostly untreated waste water just a few hundred meters later. Continue reading and watch the videos
