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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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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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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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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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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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The Green Bazaar V: The Catch Every Drop edition
From being the object of worship and the subject of countless traditional stories to being a resource we acknowledge only when the tap runs dry, our relationship with water has many sharp contrasts....
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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...
View ArticleKennametal: towards a zero energy, water and waste footprint
The Tumkur Road facility of Kennametal is a model sustainable campus – it is self-sufficient with water, has reduced energy bills by 60% and is close to zero waste. All card-carrying anti-industry...
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Watering the garden, the Lalbagh way
Even for the garden city with its many parks, Lalbagh is iconic. Spread over 240 acres with 1,854 species of plants on display, it is a botanical dream. Started in 1760 by Hyder Ali as a private...
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IRHA – catching rain in schools across India
The Blue Schools project works in schools across India in rain water harvesting, toilet renovation, sanitation improvement and other associated activities to further its objective of “large use of...
View Article#CatchEveryDrop on Saving Our City Lakes
Chat on saving our neighbourhood lakes on 22nd Mar with @indiawater and @_thealternative on 12p (IST) at #catcheverydrop View the story “#CatchEveryDrop on Saving Our City Lakes” on Storify
View ArticleThe Alternative World Water Day package
You are working in an organization, living in an apartment, teaching in a school or a parent in a house. You see water being wasted around you. The World Water Day is round the corner – You wish you...
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We have to get to the ground if we want to understand water
Some 1.5 billion urban dwellers rely on groundwater, globally. Population pressures, rapid urbanisation, increased per-capita use of water, higher ambient temperatures, increasing pressures on river...
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Recharging groundwater in a home
When Nagendra Bykampadi, senior manager at Alcatel built a house within the gated community of SJR Eastwood, it made sense to have a rainwater harvesting unit installed as well. It was the year 2005,...
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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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Read With Me: Water folk tales from around the world
Children love bedtime stories. Fairy tales about kings, princesses, ogres and other magical creatures. For a change, what if we could tell them stories to make them aware of pressing issues that we...
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Catch The Rain: Preaching & practicing rain water harvesting
Vinod Heela Lal Eshwar’s PSA shows us that clean, renewable water has been right above our heads the whole time – through rain water harvesting! Most of the surface area of the earth is covered with...
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Rain Water Harvesting and Sewage Treatment providers in Bangalore
Looking to install a RainWater Harvesting or a Sewage Treatment Plant in your house but didn’t know where to go and how to start? Here is a list of solutions, curated by The Alternative and Biome...
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Water Reuse: How to reuse used water from the washing machine?
40% of water in our households gets wasted just by flushing it down. Now, here’s a delightfully simple way to hook your washing machine to your flush with a plumber and just a few pipes! Water comes...
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