Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Final Paper

Pollution and Sanitation In India
    Have you ever visited India? If you’ve never had the opportunity to 
visit then Im sure you’ve seen stories of India in the news. 
Unfortunately, it is a very polluted impoverished country and yet in 
some areas still maintains a sense of beauty and originality that you 
wont find in any other country. Some organizations have teamed up in 
effort to minimize and ultimately eliminate the high levels of pollution 
India has. Sadly, many people suffer horrendous diseases because of 
the extreme pollution. Having been from india and been there plenty 
of times, I’ve had a first hand look at the damage that can be done 
because of the pollution. 


According to Nadhamuni  “It’s been found that 85% of the population 
in India relies on groundwater which is not very clean.”  
Arghyam is a great organization that has helped India’s 
water become much cleaner for not only those who live there but 
those tourists who visit as well. 
According to another article in Oil and Gas Journal on May 23, 2005 
by Judy R. Clark  “ India addresses air pollution with new standards”. 
 “ India’s high population levels exacerbate it’s increasing pollution.”
“Vehicle emissions are one of the major causes of air pollution. 
The approach they have come up with is “India will follow the 
European emission norms and fuel quality regulations, which in India 
are called Bharat Stage norms.” One approach they used on lowering 
air pollution is “ Indian refiners have upgraded their gasoline and 
diesel quality to implement the Euro I equivalent norms in the 
entire Country. This is one of the approaches that Indian 
organizations came up with to reduce air pollution. 
According to the “ The Straits Times in Singapore published on June 
24, 2009 “ Close to one in two people in  Asia- 1.8 billion people-don’t 
have proper sanitation, making diarrhea the top health problem for 
children because they are focused to drink polluted water”. This 
shows by not having proper sanitation methods it can cause pain to 
adults and children when they are drinking polluted water. They can 
get diarrhea which eventually can lead to death. Also they can get 
another type of disease that has no cure and will make them suffer 
and die because they are too poor to afford medication the way we 
can. The worst part is they have no medicaid and health insurance 
plans like we do.

 In Addition Wayne Smith, Amanda Hodge: The Australian 
September 29, 2010 Chaos clouds out Delhi’s pollution problems 
article states that “Delhi’s pollution concentrates, responsible for one 
in three Delhi residents suffering from respiratory problems
This shows how one out of three people in just Delhi alone may be 
suffering from respiratory problems. There must be more people in all 
of India. This is why pollution should be controlled more than ever. 
 Only the times when there are great change in pollution control and 
sanitation control is when there is something called Commonwealth 
Games which is like the olympic games in America. Another time is 
when there is a high amount of foreigners who come and visit India.  
According to an Article in the “ Weekend Australian”
It shows that the measures taken to determine how much pollution 
there is in Delhi and how to get rid of it. 
the state government is considering drastic pollution-reduction 
measures, including a congestion tax, traffic restrictions, shop 
closures and a moratorium on all construction in the weeks leading 
up to the event”.  These are temporary ways of getting rid of pollution 
but if they were to make some of these demands permanent that 
would really help get rid of pollution in India. Some ways like traffic 
restrictions and a congestion tax can help reduce pollution. 
Another statement in this article shows the pollution in India. 
“ An analysis of the city’s air quality --warned that pollution levels--
high throughout the year--were likely to increase around the time 
more than 8000 athletes converged on Delhi”. The study found fine-
participate exceeded acceptable standards on 92 percent of the days 
this year and were up to four times higher than levels recommended 
by the World Health Organization” This shows that if these measures 
to reduce pollution weren’t taken there would be a very high level of 
pollution to the point where the athletes for these Commonwealth 
games would not be able to participate. 
In addition to these facts According to an article “India’s national 
cancer research institute says one in three Delhi residents have 
respiratory problems and more than 40 percent suffer reduced lung 
function”. 
These are also certain things pollution can do to people’s bodies 
when they are breathing in that filthy polluted air. 
  

 According to The New York Times December 4, 2007 “India Finds 
mutated DNA Where water is Toxic”.
  
Preliminary results say a two-year study commissioned 
by the Punjab Pollution Control Board found mutated DNA in blood 
samples of 65 percent of the people tested.They also found high 
levels of arsenic and mercury in the tap water”. “ Soil Scientists at 
Punjab Agricultural University reported that 80 percent of the ground 
water was unfit for human consumption and that some groundwater 
had lethal concentrations of arsenic
  This is evidence provided by scientific study by a University in the 
State of Punjab in India. This is also the types of things going around 
in the water and  polluting it. 
  
     In an Article published on September 28, 2010 in “The Pioneer” 
“Rawat cries foul of poor sanitation in Haridwar”. “overflow from 
blocked sewers and heaps of garbage have become a major health 
hazard in the Holy Town. This place called Haridwar is one of the most 
Holiest places in India. It is believed that people from far away come 
to bathe in this water to relieve themselves from the burden of the 
sins they do in everyday life. They believe this place is supposed to 
be clean at all times. According to this article and the man and his 
statement it seems that far from the blocked sewers there is garbage 
emerging that is causing health problems and only because there is 
no sanitation method this is why even a Holy place like this is now 
causing diseases as well. 
  
  According to a article in “The Times” “Dirty drinking water and poor 
sanitation are recognized as the biggest killers in the world, 
responsible for 2.2 million deaths a year. 
Many people have to drink water from polluted wells or from rivers, 
leaving them to prone to bilharzia, typhus and cholera. “ In many rural 
areas of developing nations people have no sanitation at all, and use 
the outdoors as a toilet. Others have limited facilities such as 
unlined latrines, which leak and pollute water supplies”. 
This shows lack of responsibility and sanitation methods 
can do to an environment full of people.
The approaches being made are according to The Gazette 
August 29, 2002 “ A taste for waste: Summit experts say 
human excrement is fully recyclable”. “ Human excrement is fully 
recyclable. You can get fertilizer to use in fields and also get bio-gas 
for cooking and lighting.“ We can take your waste, convert it to 
organic fertilizer and compost, then utilize it to grow trees.
This is an approach to get pollution that we make into 
creations we can all benefit from. It can also save so much money.   
    

   In another article “The Australian October 16,2008 Bruce Loudon, 
New Delhi “ Tendulkar lends a hand in hygiene campaign” It states 
that “ The BIGGEST hand-wash in history was taking place across 
India last night, with an estimated 100 million school children 
participating in a drive-promoted by cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar 
for improved hygiene. They were shown the most appropriate way of 
washing hands at the most critical moment-after going to the toilet 
and before taking their meals. Another fact shown is “ Officials 
have launched the mass-hand-wash to mark Global Hand-washing 
Day, India being one of the main participants among the 70 countries 
taking part. Sachin Tendulkar states “ I wanted to be a part of this 
campaign because washing hangs with soap can keep children safe 
and healthy  and protect them against deadly disease”. 
This shows how step by step they are progressing to make the future 
a cleaner and healthier place and it shows that step by step more and 
more children can keep themselves clean. Stars like Sachin Tendulkar 
should have more campaigns to get across not only Children but 
Adults and Seniors as well. Everyone should be taught how to be 
clean and avoid illnesses that come from not washing your hands 
throughly. People usually look up to stars they see in everyday life on 
television thats why these stars should help the community by 
teaching them techniques of being clean and making their 
surroundings clean as well
This will help India not only be clean but also progress as well.
  
    One great way India has finally come up with to get rid of pollution 
is According to the “Skills Ahead” “Cleanliness How far From 
Godliness” by G S Sethi states “ An exercise started in 2009 under 
the National Urban Sanitation policy to create awareness about 
sanitation has color coded cities as Green, Blue, Black and Red 
depending on their cleanliness. The exercise used 19 indicators 
which include public access to toilets, treatment of sewage, proper 
disposal of wastewater and elimination of manuel scavenging. 

  Everyone knows who Mahatma Gandhi is and he has inspired us all. 
Till this day he is still inspiring Indians all over India. According to the 
 article “India Today” November 5, 2007 “ Gandhigiri Gets Real” by 
Subhash Mishra “ The commissioner of the Ghaziabad Municipal 
Corporation, Ajay Shankar Pandey, has taken up the broom. 
 Inspired by Mahatma, who used to clean his home, toilet and even his 
cell in prison everyday during the freedom struggle, Pandey himself 
sweeps his office everyday, collects the garbage in a dustbin. Pandey 
also has taken a vow to keep it clean amidst the thousands of waste 
generated everyday”. 

 People like Ajay Pandey have inspired a couple of people who have 
also followed Mahatma Gandhi’s footsteps and clean their garbage 
and sweep their houses and offices everyday. 
  These are all the ways in India pollution has affected our beautiful 
India and how people have come about ideas to get rid of all this 
pollution. These are ways we can help clean up India and make it  a 
better place to live a happy healthy life and enjoy the beauty of this 
great Country I am so proud of. 


Works Cited

LexisNexis Academic
Skills Ahead 
October 1, 2010
G, S Sethi 
Cleanliness How Far from Godliness?
LexisNexis Academic 
Oil and Gas Journal 
May 23, 2005 
Judy R. Clark 
“India addresses air pollution with new standards”


LexisNexis Academic 
The Strait Times 
Singapore 
June 24, 2009 
LexisNexis Academic
 The Australian 
September 29 2010 
Wayne Smith 
Amanda Hodge
Chaos clouds out Delhi’s pollution problems
LexisNexis 
Weekend Australian 
LexisNexis 
India’s national cancer research institute 
LexisNexis Academic
New York Times
December 4 2007 
India finds mutated DNA where water is toxic
LexisNexis Academic
The Pioneer
September 28, 2010 
LexisNexis Academic
The Times 
LexixNexis Academic
The Gazette 
August 29, 2002 
A taste for waste: Summit experts say human excrement is fully recyclable
LexisNexis Academic
The Australian 
October 16, 2008 
Bruce Loudon  
LexisNexis Academic 
India Today 
November 5 2007 
Subash Mishra 
Gandhigiri Gets Real

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Blog # 2 Intro AND BEGINNING BODY

English 103 Nic Chabra
 Paper # 1 
     If you have ever been to India or have relatives who live in India or even 
watched the  news about India on your television set you would know that India 
is very polluted with pollution. There are some ways they have come up with 
removing this pollution with sanitation methods. How these ways have 
affected India’s pollution and how they haven’t. What other ways Indians are 
also using to get rid of pollution.  There are many proposals as well to get rid of 
pollution in India. How people are suffering because of all the pollution in India.
   There are many organizations that started to rise in 2005 on getting ways to 
reduce pollution. According to an Interview of  a TED fellow Sunita Nadhamuni 
 who works for Arghyam which is a charitable institution that just focuses on 
 working with water since that is one of the most important needs of life that 
 should not be polluted. Arghyam conduct surveys of certain places in India and 
their water supply to see how polluted it is and ways to help reduce the pollution.
According to the TED interview I have also found that 85% of the population in 
India relies on groundwater which is not very clean. I believe Arghyam is a great 
organization that has helped India’s water be much cleaner to the people who live 
there and tourists that come from all over the world. According to another article 
on May 23, 2005 “ India addresses air pollution with new standards” India’s high 
population is increasing pollution. “Vehicle emissions are one of the major 
causes of air pollution. The approach they have come up with is “India will follow 
the European emission norms and fuel quality regulations. which in india are 
called Bharat Stage norms.”
One approach they used on lowering air pollution was by 
 “ Indian refiners have upgraded their gasoline and diesel quality to implement 
the Euro I equivalent norms in the entire Country. This is one of the approaches 
that Indian organizations came up with to reduce air pollution.  

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

BLOG NUMBER 1 REVISED

Hi Everyone Nicole Again But with a Different Topic. I have decided to change my first research paper topic to Pollution and Sanitation In India instead of the paper called The Rules of Imagism. I could not go through with the imagism paper because the first time around I had trouble writing that paper. I am so Sorry If you were looking forward to reading about the rules of imagism. I always wanted to write and research about The Pollution and Sanitation in India because Its my parents home and mine as well.  I want to know the ways I can make it clean and how others have proposed to make India free of pollution as well.  So First off My research Questions will be What others are doing in order to eliminate pollution in India? What kind of sanitation is being used in India? What kind of sanitation techniques are being proposed in India? How the pollution is making it hard for people to live in India? My final Question is How many people are getting sick because of the pollution in India? The resources I will be using are magazines and books and the internet for my research and will be providing the sources for everyone to refer to while reading my paper. If you guys have any suggestions or any resources you guys know please let me know thank you.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

BLOG NUMBER 1

Hi My Name Is Nicole Chabra. I am a Liberal Arts Humanities and Sciences Major. I chose to revise a paper I have written which I wrote in My English 102 class in the spring semester. I wrote a paper titled The Rules of Imagism which showed that by using the rules of imagism how two poets named Ezra Pound and Hilda Doolittle used this imagism in their poetry. In order for me to revise this paper I will have to have a hard copy of the paper. I will also need to have the poetry I had used in the poems to show the types of rules imagism requires. I also need a few more poems from both poets so I can compare and contrast them and also to see if they have any imagism i can use in my revision. I will also need a imagist manifesto that sums up the rules in order to revise this poem and make it a remarkable research paper. I also will need some more information on how these two poets have written their poems and why they used imagism in their poetry. I chose to revise a paper from my last english class because I had trouble already writing this paper and I wanted to see how I can make it better and more presentable for all of you to enjoy my paper as well as well for myself once I have written a revised and complete college level paper. Also I want to be able to go back and tell my old professor How much I have improved from her class and in my english 103 class on my writing. Please feel free to write as many suggestions as you guys feel to in order for me to improve my revised imagism paper. This Is what I believe so far will be very useful for my first  paper in english 103.