Making Water Everybody’s Business edited by Anil Agarwal and others,
Centre for Science and the Environment, New Delhi, 890 rupees/$18.12,
ISBN 8186906274
IN ENGLAND, the village pond is for ducks, and the rainwater butt is for
watering the garden. Ducks are pleasing to the eye, as is an English garden in
bloom, but neither are vital to survival. In India, capturing and storing rain
is a matter of life and death.
In this fascinating amalgam of technology and politics, Anil Agarwal,
director of India’s ground-breaking Centre for Science and the Environment,
resurrects the skills of rainwater harvesting. Here are pits…
