GALLERY 05 | WATER & EQUITY
EXHIBIT 01/02
A Tale for the Years: Water, Rights and Equity
Photo Source: Prachi Adesara
Particularly, access to water in the city is defined by the question - who deserves water?
This question is also mired in further questions of right to the city, governance and legality. Volunteer organisation groups in Mumbai like the Pani Haq Samiti have worked tirelessly over the years to make sure that each citizen in Mumbai receives water as a basic right.
This exhibit draws from the archives of the Pani Haq Samiti, while intertwining individual stories of human resilience in the face of water paucity, advocacy and agitations for water both national and international. The exhibit takes the form of a calendar, emphasizing that the struggle for access and right has never been a linear timeline, but a continuous cycle of struggles and successes that has led us to where we are.
शहरातील पाण्यावर कोणाचा हक्क आहे?
या प्रश्नाचे उत्तर शोधण्याचा हा एक प्रयत्न. या प्रश्नाच्या अनुषंगाने इतर अनेक मुद्दे विचारात घेणे आवश्यक ठरतं, जसं शहरात राहणाऱ्यांचे अधिकार, शासनाची जबाबदारी आणि कायदे. मुंबईकरांना पाणी हा मूलभूत हक्क मिळवून देण्यासाठी 'पाणी हक्क समिती' आणि त्या सारख्या अनेक स्वयंसेवी संघटना कित्येक वर्षे अथक प्रयत्न करीत आहेत..
हे प्रदर्शन पाणी हक्क समितीकडील राष्ट्रीय आणि आंतरराष्ट्रीय पातळीवरील दुष्काळ सदृश्य परिस्थिती विरोधात अविरत चालू असलेली मानवी आंदोलने आणि चळवळी यांच्या संग्रहित माहितीवर आधारीत आहे. पाणी मिळविण्याचा अधिकार आणि त्यासाठीचा लढा ही काही आजची गोष्ट नसून हे सततच्या प्रयत्नांचे आणि यश-अपयशाचे एक न थांबणारे चक्र आहे, जे दर्शविण्यासाठी या प्रदर्शनाची मांडणी एखाद्या कॅलेंडर (दिनदर्शिका) च्या स्वरूपात केली आहे.
Formation of Pani Haq Samiti in Pani Haq Parishad at Mumbai Marathi Patrakar Sangh, Mumbai
Connections installed in Bhim Nagar, Andheri East for the first time in history.
Leke Rahenge Izzat ka Paani slogan for the settlement.
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International Day of Action for Rivers
Mahad Satyagraha takes place
World Water Day
No Objection Certificate received from Mumbai Port Trust. This NoC allowed the residents of informal settlements on Mumbai Port Trust land to get water connections for the first time since Independence
Insan Vanha Pani Abhiyan was initiated
A No Objection Certificate was obtained from the Aarey
Forest administration for providing water connections
Koula Bandar, Byculla, gets its first water connection
after decades.Watch Video
Gautam Nagar, Deonar, gets its first water connection.Watch Video
World Environment Day
World Oceans Day
Standing Committee of MCGM accepted Mumbai High Court Order and sanction the proposal to design Water for All policy
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
World Water Week
World Habitat Day
International Day for Natural Disaster Risk Reduction
First campaign to file applications for water connections in MCGM.
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World Energy Conservation Day
Bombay High Court passes a ruling declaring water as a basic right for all. This was in response to a PIL by the Pani Haq Samiti.
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