India’s 350,000 well-trained postmen have turned bankers, offering doorstep financial services to even the last man standing in the remotest parts of the country. Till recently, the ubiquitous men in brown serving in the...
As California faces a historic drought, many farmers are relying on groundwater reserves to carry them through the dry season. Pumping groundwater is currently unregulated in California (that could soon change), and drawing on...
Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Check...
NITI Aayog is working on a plan to set-up desalination plants along India’s 7,800-km coastline, according to a report in The Economic Times. The plants will desalinate sea water which would then be supplied...
Presented here are some design ideas in domestic Water Harvesting. The Dimensions are indicative and will vary as per local conditions and situation.
Groundwater over-extraction, waterway degradation, and urban flooding are forcing China’s cities to address a vicious cycle. Sprawling urban development and use of impervious material prevent soil from absorbing rainwater, prompting further investment in infrastructures...
Volunteers in India planted more than 66 million trees in just 12 hours in a record-breaking environmental drive. About 1.5 million people were involved in the huge plantation campaign, in which saplings were placed...
The question regarding Indian cities is whether they will metamorphose into a butterflies or ugly moths ! India is urbanizing, not at a trot or a canter, but at a gallop. Urban populations are...
Water experts have said that the two principal unpolluted and perennial sources of water are the water in the ground below forests and the aquifers beneath rivers’ floodplains read on… https://thewire.in/environment/will-government-consider-forest-aquifers-to-supply-drinking-water-to-cities