Monday, May 26, 2008

228: clean water for Darjeeling?

I write in haste tonight (before I get on a train!) but I found this nice little story in Indian newspaper The Statesman today, about local water supply. According to the article, after years of political wrangling, an agreement has been reached that will ensure the supply of clean water to communities in and around the Indian city of Darjeeling by 2009. I recall that the UNDP Human Development Report on water a couple of years back said that most barriers to people accessing water were political rather than hydrological - this seems to be a good example of political progress bringing some of those barriers down.

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