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Clean Water out of Wastewater? This Bengaluru Scientist’s Innovation Can...
Wastage of water is one of the most pertinent issues currently faced by everyone. Industries being one of the top consumers of water worldwide, it is disheartening to see that most of the water...
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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...
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How a Village in Rajasthan Went from Dry to Water Sufficient in Just One Year
Until a few years ago, Khohar village near Alwar was not your typical Rajasthani village full of gaily dressed people, humming with activity and welcoming tourists. Hardly anyone could be seen in the...
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What 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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Clean Water out of Wastewater? This Bengaluru Scientist’s Innovation Can...
Wastage of water is one of the most pertinent issues currently faced by everyone. Industries being one of the top consumers of water worldwide, it is disheartening to see that most of the water...
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Two 18-Year-Old Girls Are Getting Bengaluru to Save Its Precious Water
“Why Waste?” is what Garvita Gulhati and Pooja Tanawade are asking all of us. Why Waste, is an organisation working towards effective conservation of water and they have recently also started working...
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Time to Drink Your Recycled Water! This Bengaluru Firm Will Make It Happen!
Benjamin Franklin once said, “When the well is dry, we will know the worth of water”. With its population expanding on an exponential scale, it wouldn’t be long before India becomes a water-scarce...
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Water Is Precious and This Hyderabad Lady Is Going All out to Save Every Drop!
Water is scarce. Apart from the fact that it is in short supply, the pollution of water-bodies doesn’t help the cause. Hyderabad is facing an ongoing water-crisis, one which forces citizens to buy...
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This Simple Gas, and a Little Technology, Can Save Us Millions of Litres of...
Helium is an odourless, tasteless, colourless, non-toxic, inert gas. When introduced into water, it escapes through leaks in the pipework. The water carries the gas out of the pipe, and it rises to the...
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This Retired Teacher Transformed a Barren Village With Water Conservation!
Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The future of India lies in its villages.” He believed that the vicious cycle of displacement, rural to urban migration, overcrowding of cities and poverty could only be...
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This Man’s Low-Cost Technique Has Helped Hundreds of Struggling Farmers
India has long undervalued one of its most precious resources—water, and today, the country’s chronic mismanagement of water is staring at it in the cruel face of a back-to-back drought in nearly...
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Water Supply Without Electricity? IAS Officer Makes It Happen in a Remote...
This is a story about a bureaucrat who went one step forward to ensure that continuous water supply was available to the residents of a remote village in Odisha and that too, without using electricity!...
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How Three Bengaluru Students Got Clean Drinking Water to Hegganahalli
Ever stopped to wonder how crucial it is to have access to clean drinking water? Often the very things that we take for granted are those that billions of people across the world are fighting for, and...
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This Unique Rs 6000 Crore Scheme Will Tackle Depleting Groundwater in India
Water is taken for granted, because of its seemingly abundant supply, yet, here’s an alarming fact—it is depleting fast. India extracts around 251 cubic kilometre groundwater, annually, which is 25% of...
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