The 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...
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
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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