Slumdog Awareness Raiser, Hindu Kashmiri Women, Girls lesser Children

Net Bits: Slumdog Awareness Raiser, Hindu Kashmiri Women, Girls lesser Children?, ADB’s new Laos project, California and South Africa’s Water Problem
Slumdog Millionaire shows impoverished living conditions in Mumbai: “Travel to any city in India and you will find two common images — women lining up with pots of various shapes and sizes waiting for water, and men and children defecating in the open.” This film is an unprecedented opportunity to raise global public awareness…Read on on EarthTimes.
A report on WIP on the situation of the minority Hindu Women in Kashmir by Aditi Bhaduri: What is the reality of their lives and how will the election results impact them? To find out, Aditi travelled to the bloated camp of Mutthi on the outskirts of Jammu, one of the many camps that has housed thousands of these displaced Kashmiris since they fled their ancestral lands in 1990…
Are Girls lesser children of God? This question is asked in the Editorial of the Economic Times in regard to Climate Change: Here a few excerpts: “Many things along with climate change should concern us when we imagine the world we will leave our grandchildren…the demographic map of the world reveals the important role India’s children can play in the world…but, India is not looking after its children. Of India’s children 43% are malnourished today…although, India’s economy has grown well…in fact, the poor state of health, education, and empowerment of girls, who will be or are mothers, is an ultimate cause for many of the more proximate causes of malnourished children…Read the entire article.
ADB finances new Women’s Development Project in Laos: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Board of Directors approved a $23 million grant from its Asian Development Fund for the Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project, as reported on FinChannel.Com. Women who spend up to two hours a day on the backbreaking task of water collection and storage will be key beneficiaries of this new water supply and sanitation project in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic… Read on.
California’ struggle for water: read a report on WIP (Women’s International Perspective) by Jennifer Fenton. “My grandmother, a survivor of The Great Depression and a staunch conservationist, remembers drawing me a shallow bath as a child. This was not an unusual practice, as a resident of Los Angeles herself, she was required to pay a fee for the water she used…”
South Africa’s quiet water crisis: Concerned with a cholera threat from its northern neighbour, Zimbabwe, South Africa could be overlooking a creeping water crisis of its own, as ageing infrastructure and rising demand spew potentially deadly bacteria into its water systems…Read on on IRIN.