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...would make a great deal of sense, therefore, to jettison the current system and transition to one in which students’ vacation time is spread out over the year at more balanced intervals, as some schools have already pioneered...
...will not garner enough support to overcome the threat of a filibuster and make it for a vote on the Senate floor; almost all Republicans and many moderate Democrats believe that such a plan would force private insurance companies out of business and eventually lead to a single-payer system, with the government as the only viable entity selling insurance. "My first job is to get this bill across the finish line," Baucus said during the committee's fifth day of debate. "Rome was not built in a day." (See 10 health-care-reform...
...Back in the day - that day being some 425 years ago - Udaipur's system of lake development was considered a role model of water management. As early as 1582, the Maharanas of the erstwhile state of Mewar started dredging out Lake Pichola to make it suitable as an irrigation and drinking source for the general population. In 1890, Maharana Fateh Singh inaugurated a project that geography professor Narpat Singh Rathore of Udaipur's Mohanlal Sukhadia University calls the "the world's first man-made microsystem of river diversion, linkage and watershed management," the result of which constitutes the current system...
...Development Authority, implement a "no-construction zone," undertake continuous de-silting steps and other restrictive measures. Two years later, none of the court's directives have been implemented. "There's too much political finger-pointing and not enough problem solving," says Arvind Singh Mewar, whose ancestors built the lake system and who now heads HRH Hotels, a chain of 12 heritage properties, including five in Udaipur, converted from family palaces and hunting lodges. "Like my forefathers, I feel it's my responsibility to bring us together to take action quickly or lose our greatest asset, both environmentally and economically." (Read...
...Udaipur's Lake Conservation Society. Until six years ago, 25 tons of solid waste and 6 million liters of raw sewage were dumped into the lakes each day. Now, he says, those numbers have been reduced by 60%. But the local government has made an impact too: a drainage system, built by Udaipur's Urban Improvement Trust (a district regulatory body) and the Rajasthan government's Public Health Engineering Department, now diverts sewage downstream, though a treatment plant has yet to be installed...