Picture by Graham Salinger December 2010
A picture taken from atop the Red Fort in Delhi India. As you can see the water is filled with garbage. Water pollution creates water issues for the population by reducing the amount of fresh water that is available and by putting the population at risk of catching diseases from polluted water. Such trashing of the environment was common for Delhi.
Upon arriving to India one of the first things a visitor will notice is the smell that characterizes India. While India is known world wide for its history, culture, cuisine and monuments such as the Taj Mahal , it has also gained a reputation as one of the most polluted countries in the world. Through out this section of the website , which focuses on environmental innovations and policy in India, we will look at environmental challenges facing India, including air pollution, water pollution, over population, an overpopulation of animals and many more issues. We will also look at what the government has been doing to address these issues and we will evaluate the effectiveness of such policies. We will look at what innovations have taken place in the private sector. In doing, so we will look at what role India hopes to play in the global “green economy” as it gears its development strategy towards the knowledge economy. This provides us with several questions within the context of India’s technological innovations, as some developed countries push for a "green economy" will India, with its poor environmental standards, be left behind? Can India's knowledge economy, with its focus on technological advancements , use such knowledge to advance environmental standards and thus catch up to other countries?
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