Samantha G's List: reasearch resources

• documentation to show they came to Mumbai before 1995,
• Mukesh Mehta

• Rice is known to be a "thirsty crop" and a "water guzzler

• As part of a mas- terplan to turn the city into a "new Shanghai", the government is demolishing vast areas, and sending in police armed with lathis [wooden sticks] to chase out the inhabitants by force, and leaving thousands of them homeless.
• , 80 per cent of the profits go to a char i- ty that helps slum-dwellers.

• About a quarter of India is experiencing drought conditions, as the monsoon rains have been weaker and later than usual.
• "We looked at the rainfall record and during this decade, it's relatively steady -
• "So naturally we would expect the groundwater level to stay where it is unless there is an excessive stress due to people pumping too much water, which is what we believe is happening."

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• Water is supplied to Ms Mehta's home only once a day for a few hours in the morning,
• "We regularly need water for the whole day and when it only runs for a few hours, it is very difficult to keep the whole house clean.

  • In Suburban Mumbai, so not in the poverty category, but they still have to face difficult challenges like lack of running water for part of the day.

• Every day more than 5,000 tankers deliver some 50 million litres of water to people who can pay,

  • So, for the people that cannot pay, they are out of luck and water which definantly contributes to poverty. (Madslien)

• Mumbai, you have the richest man in the world and the poorest person in the world co-existing side by side,

  • Basically there are rich people living very close, and seeing what the poor people go through, yet they do nothing ("Talking Shop: AR Rahman")

• • malnourished, uneducated (many), children; a result from the poverty
    
• hey are filthy, without a sewage system and have rows upon rows of makeshift rooms made of plastic sheets.

  • The slums are completely unindustrialized even thought they sit next to large businesses.
• • So basically the industrialized and the not dont meet
• their worlds don't meet.

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• • As i thought, south Asia has a very high poverty line.
• • So, India once had much wealth, but because of wealth attracted foreigners who then drained India of wealth
• "South Asia is fast emerging as the poorest, most-illiterate, the most malnourished, the least gender-sensitive--indeed, the most deprived region in the world."

  • Shows on a biggers scale how poor that particular part of the continent, Asia, is.
• • political structure also had affect on how wealthy their country became after colonization.
• • Population growth has a lot to do with poverty because as the population grows, there is not enough room in the country to sustain the growing populaiton
• • There are not all bad things, India is able to produce their own food which means less hunger.

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• • Environmental factor that affects crops which then affects level of food/hunger and poverty
• but a large part of the population cannot read and write. India is one of the world's major manufacturing countries, but many of its people live in extreme poverty.

  • though there are many that are wealthy, many are impoverished
• • villagers live more simple lives than those in the city
• • Sometimes villagers don't have electrical power
• e husband's family. The dowry may be money, goods, or both. Today, the paying of a dowry is illegal, but the practice continue
• • Poverty isn't necessarily caused by diseases because they try and control diseases

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