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This Man Uses His Limited Resources to Buy Drinking Water for Poor Residents...
A young man from drought-hit Junnar in Maharashtra is quenching the thirst of area residents with his own resources. Several major rivers like Ganga, Godavari, Krishna and Netravati have been reduced...
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TBI Blogs: A Look at How Shillong’s Nadi Festival Used River Systems to...
Initiated by the Asian Confluence, the Nadi Festival witnessed the participation of 5 countries with common river systems. With the river as a protagonist, the countries discussed policy ideas, and a...
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Say Goodbye to Bottled Water – These Water ATMs Dispense RO Water at Just Rs...
Pi-lo water vending machines are making pure drinking water accessible and affordable to all. They are also attacking the plastic menace created by bottled water. In 2011, when the massive...
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How a Bunch of Students Are Convincing Villages Around Noida to Use Water...
Project Asbah, initiated by Enactus-SRCC, works towards providing clean drinking water to villages. In order to achieve this, Enactus is promoting the use of custom-made clay-based water filters in the...
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Delhiites, Check out This Ecological Engineer’s Super Innovative, Natural...
Tarun Sebastian Nanda, a British Dutch Indian ecological engineer, will be conducting workshops in Delhi to train people in building floating wetlands: an eco-friendly, chemical free and...
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Two 17-YO Girls Wanted to Distribute Water Filters in Delhi Slums. So They...
Two 17-year-old girls in Delhi have pledged to provide pure drinking water to residents of slums in and around Delhi. Manya Kalra and Sana Kharbanda are students at Shri Ram School. Their crowd funded...
View ArticleTBI Blogs: 45 Days. 3 Talukas. One Competition: How Maharashtra’s Villagers...
Water conservation is a pressing need in many parts of India. The Satyamev Jayate Water Cup was a competition that aimed to spread awareness and get more people involved in the efforts to preserve this...
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MY STORY: When I Met Anupam Mishra – Water Conservationist, Environmentalist,...
Anupam Mishra -- the water conservationist, environmentalist, writer, Gandhian, and a man of gentle wit, passed away at 68. Peeyush Sekhsaria recalls his first meeting with Mishra and how it left a...
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This Engineering Student Has Made a Portable Water Purifier. And It Costs...
Water may be one of the basic essentials of life, but access to clean drinking water remains a challenge for countless Indians. Pollution and rampant scarcity of this precious resource, coupled with...
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No Band Baaja Baarat – This Family Gave up a Grand Wedding to Build an RO...
Jayant Bhole and his family have joined an increasing rank of Indians who choose to forgo extravagant weddings in favour of helping the society. Rather than spend it on festivities, the family from...
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Creating Smart Villages and Rural Entrepreneurs Using Drinking Water,...
In Maharashtra, Zero Miles is building multi-utility drinking water centres to bring people together for community development. "If you are in a Jungle, what is the best place to see all the animals?...
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With This Low-Cost Arsenic Water Filter, an IIT Kharagpur Professor Wants to...
In 2004, Sirshendu De, a professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, started to work towards saving those from underprivileged backgrounds in West Bengal from drinking groundwater...
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5 Clever Ways You Can Use the Waste Water Generated by RO Purifiers in Your...
Why can’t we just boil the water instead, my father inquired when I set about installing an RO purifier in our house. My answers were simple enough—it takes as much time and effort boiling water in...
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₹2 Will Get You 250ml of Clean Water From This Water ‘ATM’& Also Help You...
What happens in a society where people can access water the way money is accessed through an ATM? According to this startup from Lucknow, something like that would considerably reduce our collective...
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How to Purify & Recycle Wastewater From Your Home While Also Creating a...
Human beings are recommended to drink 8-10 glasses of water every day. But our consumption of water isn’t limited simply to drinking it. Take a minute to observe your household. Washing clothes and...
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This Village in Maharashtra Used Its Plastic Waste To Solve Its Water Woes!
Walni village in Nagpur is using its plastic waste as a solution to its water shortage by making it into plastic sheets for rain water harvesting. When farmers in Walni village in Maharashtra’s Nagpur...
View ArticleRemembering B. R. Ambedkar: India’s first-ever Water Warrior
Dr. B. R Ambedkar is know for the framing of the Constitution, but did you know that he was also responsible for an all-India policy on managing water resources? His insights & policies are...
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An Entire Drought-Stricken Kerala Town Now Has Water Thanks to One...
The man who runs an ambulance service in a nearby village used it to deliver over 20,000 litres of water to the affected areas, bringing water to as many as sixty households in just two days. Villagers...
View ArticleHow a Village in Rajasthan Went from Dry to Water Sufficient in Just One Year
People from a small village in Rajasthan were suffering from acute water crisis. The ground water table was continuously depleting, the villagers were migrating and even every day survival was a...
View ArticleWhat Are 100 School Kids Living Around Mangaluru Doing in Their Summer...
There are two kinds of students: those who dread the idea of homework and others who don’t mind it too much. Particularly when the assignment in question is holiday homework — after all, how can pages...
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