Echoes from America
E.coli bacteria in New yoWs municipal water supply? it impossible. After A citizens had once christened thill -clumimne of mu"idpot w*toe. The system hod been cmpmhon&e Protective measures. out I years a", td Wnnad L oPH bacteria in the water.
People complained that they wore having to bol bolbro drin". And AMS advocacy groups urged immu dent potionts not to drink municipal water, All? they' presence of a-Mosporldium bacteria. Compounding worries, of the Depart Environmental protection alleged earlier this year that mont numagsts ordered them not to lost water that a laus clearly sham that the problem.
restricted to the waterbody slorm Any the dWs'rssomoft hes. also com OrI"I the Federal authorities want the city tor treatment plant. out New the watershed should be cleaned up, War, the use of ndwtoxic postion part big forms. Runoffs from the forms is rL the upstate farm* &ft crying foul their development.
In fact city officials have agreed to filter the water In the dWi Croton r*smo)r In suburban Westchester county, but they feel that the most offecti" method to protect other me reservoirs would be to buy 32AOO hectares of land In the Catsitills and Othware Valley regions where they we located. According to ANarilyn "bor, commissioner, of Now Yorit Cws Department of Environmental Protection ftM agency responsI. his for ensuring water qu*W. 00or plan is concentrating on pollution proventtono. While buying land would cost SZ billion. tin plard Would cost a "garing $8 billion.
The upstate towns are willing to reset" the Impasse for a price, They went funds for the economic development ontl guaranteed spending on upgraded sewage treartment plants. New Yak Chy officials have offored them S16S million.
In the Indian context this Is a losson: Ow it Is not just the watorbodles which have to be proucted, but a whole water shad, If our cities we to survive. The need Is for a completely fresh owlagical strategy of development.