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Issue No: 298, May 2014

'Water Without Waste' campaign meets Pondy promenaders

The Water Without Waste campaign on the Pondicherry promenade If you were offered an empty one litre plastic bottle for Rs 6 and asked to walk 200 meters to fill it with clean drinking water, would you choose this option over paying Rs 20 for a filled one litre bottle of water on the spot? This question was one that the ‘Water Without Waste’ campaign was trying to answer in its recent awareness campaign to draw attention to the massive amount of waste produced by bottling drinking water. Human behaviour and consciousness-raising were at the heart of the campaign, which launched online on March 22 and culminated in a three-day interactive art installation along the promenade in Pondicherry from March 29-31. ‘Water Without Waste’ was the latest campaign run by AmrutDhara (‘amrut/amrit’ meaning ‘heavenly life giving drink’ and ‘dhara’ a Hindi/Sanskrit word for ‘flow’), founded by Minhaj Ameen (Aurovilian), Akshay Roongta and Sandeep Jaiswal, whose mission is to “start a move...
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Issue No. 298, May 2014

  • Quietly making an impact: Auroville's solid waste outreach
  • Editorial
  • Disposable pads, disposable lives
  • The 'Aspiration' programme: Welcome Newcomers to Auroville
  • Helping the development of Bommaiyarpalayam village
  • 'Water Without Waste' campaign meets Pondy promenaders
  • Changing Aurovillians' behavior
  • Aqua Salis
  • June Maher (Passing)

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