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[Global Oneness Project]
[Ganga Doesn't Discriminate]
When the Ganga flows down from our region in Uttarakhand
down to Bengal, she does not discriminate between the rich and the poor.
[Vandana Shiva] [Dehradun] [Environmentalist and Author] It doesn't matter who comes to bathe in her.
It could be the beggar. It could be the millionaire.
They are the same for her.
She doesn't discriminate between the Behari, the Bengali, Uttar Pradesh person.
She doesn't discriminate between the man and the woman
or the child and the grandfather.
She is the commons.
She is the common basis of our life,
and the idea of privatizing Ganga
or any water goes against this recognition
that anything that serves the common good
must stay in the commons.
Ganga serves the common good, therefore she must stay in the commons,
and any idea of privatization, legal, through property rights,
or de facto through putting your private pollution into it
goes against the Ganga as a commons.
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