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The pyaus of an erstwhile Bombay
While we modern Mumbaikars lug around our plastic bottles with cold-gone-tepid-water, our forefathers had intelligent ways to combat this tropical heat we call summer – by tapping into natural...
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Flushed Clean: This 128-year-old hospital runs Bangalore’s greenest Sewage...
St. Martha’s Hospital in the heart of Bangalore has been treating patients for over 128 years now, and sees a traffic of two and a half lakh outpatients and 21,000 in-patients a year. As a hospital,...
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Peak summer and water problems? Cut dependency and be water sufficient!
By Seetha Gopalakrishnan Fresh water found on land has only two primary sources – melting of ice, and rain. Harvesting rain is crucial for sustaining both the surface and sub-soil water sources. That...
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A water supply system that even Delhi would envy
Indwalgaon in Uttarakhand harnessed available government resources to move from a water-deficit to a water-adequate state, thanks to its Pradhan Madanlal. Madan Lal gazes at a water supply scheme...
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Coca Cola- Opens Unhappiness in Kaladera, Rajasthan
The story isn’t new. It is about Coca Cola exploiting groundwater resources at its bottling plant in Kaladera. What will hopefully be new is how the story finally ends. Borewells go deep in Kaladera,...
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3 ways responsible travel contributes to water conservation
As a traveller, we see varied terrains in the Indian subcontinent, ranging from the mighty Himalayas to the rustic brown desert in Rajasthan and gushing oceans of the coastal region fuelled by immense...
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