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Blooded Waters, Dirty Hands: An Elegy for Puṇyodaka

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  Blooded Waters, Dirty Hands: An Elegy for Puṇyodaka Posted on 1st February, 2026 (GMT 07:18 hrs) Authored by  Ecotopians of Alternity (EOA)⤡  under the Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA) Platform ABSTRACT This text is an elegy for puṇyodaka—not as a lost ritual substance, but as a shattered moral condition. Moving across Kalidasa’s Meghadūta, the Vana Parva’s Yaksha-prashna, biblical plague, Macbeth’s indelible blood, and Sartre’s Dirty Hands, it traces how water—river, sea, confluence—has been converted into spectacle, alibi, and instrument of power. Empirical poisonings (heavy metals, fecal coliforms, ecological collapse) coexist with choreographed immersions, artificial ghats, and submarine devotions, revealing a regime of simulation where sanctity is performed while rivers rot and silences are enforced. The work argues that contemporary governmentality no longer seeks purity but stages it, laundering violence through ritual, nationalism, and necessity. Against...
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Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink? An Essay in Hydro-Politics

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  Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink? An Essay in Hydro-Politics Posted on 29th January, 2026 (GMT 09:05 hrs) ABSTRACT This paper examines the enduring paradox of Earth’s vast water resources contrasted with the severe scarcity of safe, drinkable freshwater, encapsulated in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s line from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: “Water, water everywhere, but nor any drop to drink.” Drawing on foundational hydrological data and recent 2026 UN assessments declaring an era of “global water bankruptcy”—marked by irreversible depletion, pollution, and over-allocation of water systems—the study analyzes the mismatch between total water volume (primarily saline oceans) and accessible potable supplies. It investigates key research questions: the drivers of drinkable water scarcity (natural inaccessibility compounded by human-induced over-extraction, climate change, and contamination) and the primary anthropogenic sources of pollution (groundwater overuse wit...
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