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ABOUT THIS NEWS LETTER |
 Welcome to the ‘REEDS NEWS’, June 2009 edition. We hope you enjoy learning about what’s happening on rural development as you read REEDS NEWS. We are in receipt of various feedbacks on our May 2009 REEDS NEWS by way of critical suggestions as well as welcoming the initiative. We welcome all those suggestions and would be taken care appropriately in our future communications. Wising you an eventful reading of this edition and look forward for your further comments.
Ravi K Reddy. June 23, 2009 |
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| INSIDE THE ORGANIZATION |
| In this month, we continue the introduction to REEDS. REEDS activities: All the initiatives and interventions of REEDS touch various spheres of rural life – Safe Drinking Water, Health Education, Total Sanitation and Evaluation & Studies; and are aimed to improved quality of life for the rural population. Rain Water Harvesting being synergetic to the drinking water initiative, REEDS ventured into this new area during the current year. You may browse www.indiareeds.org for the latest annual report of 2008-09. We welcome your comments and questions concerning our programs. |
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| FACTS THAT MATTER |
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More than 1 billion people are denied the right to clean water and 2.6 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. |
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Even if the Millennium Development Goals targets are achieved, there will still be more than 800 million people without water and 1.8 billion people without sanitation in 2015. |
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Over the past 50 years, there have been some 37 cases of reported violence between states over water and more than 200 water treaties have been negotiated. |
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Source: UN Human Development Report (2006) |
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| HAPPENINGS |
| Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to incorporate in the budget, to be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 6, the priorities outlined in President Pratibha Patil's address to the first session of both Houses of Parliament on June 4, 2009. Highlights of new government’s priorities towards rural development and empowerment are: Rural Water supply programme will be completed by 2011; the rural telecommunication target will be set at reaching 40% rural tele-density in the next five years; making massive investment in education and increased focus on the national skill development initiative that has commenced operation with the very ambitious goal of creation of 500 million skilled people by 2022; and consolidating The National Rural Health Mission to make perceptible reduction in infant mortality and maternal mortality in the next five years. |
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| GET INVOLVED |
REEDS welcome support and participation in any manner that suit one’s convenience. All the monitory contributions to REEDS qualify for deduction under Section 80 G of the Indian Income Tax Act, 1961. If you know someone who would like to be added to our REEDS NEWS readership please let us know at:
inforeeds@gmail.com |
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Contact:
C-206, Vijaya Hills, 11-4-646,
AC Guards, Hyderabad.
Telephone: (91) 40 2339 7141
Telefax: (91) 40 2339 2221
mail : inforeeds@gmail.com,
web site: www.indiareeds.org |
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The 21st Century will be an important hundred years in the history of water in the planet. Not unlike how oil drove the economies of the 20th century, availability and use of water will determine the future of many economies of the world. Developing nations like India must quickly develop mechanisms for equitable sharing of available resources and increasingly depend on recycling and reuse of water. The effort of every government must be to ensure supply of safe drinking water to every citizen of this country, not merely to those who can afford to pay. The competition for fresh water will produce a huge strain on the polity of many states, as we have witnessed in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan in the past decade. There is a need to have a fresh look on the sharing of this resource, which is going scarcer every day. The failure of the monsoon this year, so far, will exacerbate the issue.
At REEDS, we will continue to highlight issues of water availability and usage. The question we will be asking ourselves is "What will happen to the water after its usage?"
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June 23, 2009 |
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