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COP24, touted as the most important climate conference since the 2015 Paris meeting (COP21), was held in the coal mining city of Katowice, Poland from December 2 to 15, 2018. The event saw muted ambition by member nations to combat climate change and failure to divorce coal.

Instead of having separate indices for soil, water and air, Comprehensive Environmental Pollution Index (CEPI) combines all of them in a single index, to assign a numerical value to the extent of pollution in an industrial cluster.

Growing up, I thought my city, Madras (that is also Chennai) was just unfortunate to be permanently water-starved. We were dependent on the monsoons to fill up the city’s reservoirs and recharge groundwater.