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| Lead by example |
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| Prevent Sewage Pollution in your neighborhood |
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| The waste water that flows after being used for domestic, industrial and other purposes is termed as sewage water. Today Sewage pollution is a big problem in cities. About 2.3 billion people in the world suffer from diseases that are linked to water. The poor management of sewage treatment and dumping untreated waste is threatening the lives of thousands of poor people. |
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| Sewage pollution gets into our local creeks when it escapes the sewage system due to overflow, spill or crack in sanitary sewer collection system. Sewage pollution carries Pathogenic protozoa such as Giardia and Cryptosporium that are a risk to human health. Using contaminated sewage for fertilizer can result in epidemics of such diseases as cholera. India has over 300 sewage treatment plants, most are underutilized and poorly positioned. We should first look at effectively treating our waste water and prevent sewage effluence from getting into our neighboring stream. |
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| Here’s how you could make this happen |
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Identify the place in your area most vulnerable with road side eatery vendors |
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Put up some Message boards in the local language stating “You have no business to dirty our city.” |
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The previous day’s litter need to be cleaned up first in the morning before the rush hr time begins.. |
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Call/ join hands with the young enthusiastic school students, make a collective approach in cleaning the area. |
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Repeatedly speak about cleanliness and its importance with your neighbours and the local shopkeepers. |
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Capture the dirt on your digital camera, take a print show the local vendors how they are responsible for the same. |
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Develop the attitude of beginning with self |
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| Every year approximately four billion tons of carbon accumulates in the air each year, about 30% of this comes directly from the continued burning of the rainforests |
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| See what littering can cost the city |
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City drains get choked, and water cannot recede when it rains heavily |
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Traffic movement at a snail pace or almost stuck |
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Loss of precious time on the Road |
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The city actually struggles in |
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Stray cattle start feeding on the waste, resulting in ugly city scenario |
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Stingent smell, leaving the air around stinking |
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Mosquito & Flies breed, directly would Malaria, Jaundice and Dengue |
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Loss of Life on roads due to accidents. |
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Danger of waste being mixed with |
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| Most vulnerable areas where our individual reach on a day to day basis becomes impossible are the Railway station area, State Bus Terminal, ourtside banquet halls, marriage grounds, local shopping areas. |
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| Basic Manners on civic responsibility starts right at school…Once you become a tax payer you tend to loose your own money for your own action ie. Irresponsible behavior towards your surroundings |
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| Total Stanitation - A lesson from a Village in Madhya Pradesh |
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| Tarawata village in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district stands apart from other villages - it's spick and span. This has been made possible through the Total Sanitation// Campaign (TSC) launched by the administration almost six months back. |
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| Slogans propagating sanitary habits and cleanliness adorn its walls. The alleys passing through the nearly 200 'pucca' (concrete) houses are bereft of any litter. There are no flying plastic bags, no unwanted paper, no cow dung scattered on the streets that look immaculately clean. |
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| The populace, which consists of mainly Kushwah and Brahmin communities, depends mainly on agriculture for sustenance. And it's not just external cleanliness that the around 1,950 villagers have imbibed. |
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| Only two houses in the village had toilets just six months back. Today, it boasts of having a 100 percent sanitation graph. 'Not a single house of the village is without a toilet,' says S.K. Mishra, nodal officer of TSC. |
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| 'Earlier, the nullahs (drains) would always be choked. But after the district administration's efforts and the implementation of the project, the village has undergone a 'sanitation surgery',' says Sarpanch Hanumant Singh Kushwah. |
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| Initially, a lot of counseling had to be done to convince the villagers to discard the age-old tradition of taking a 'lota' (small utensil) and going out for defecation. |
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| 'Motivating them to change their mindset was an extremely arduous task. But gradually each one started aping the other. They understood the importance of having a personal and exclusive toilet,' says Mishra. |
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| Even the children of this village have learnt the importance of personal hygiene. Talk to them about the subject and they start parroting lines straight out of the Class 5 environmental science book: 'We should wash our hands before eating. We should brush daily. We should bathe daily and wear clean clothes.' |
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| The children of Tarawata now have a game |
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