Water conservation through rainwater harvesting
RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, has over the past year collected and used close to 17 lakh litres of rainwater. This is the result of a project undertaken alongwith Bangalore…
RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, has over the past year collected and used close to 17 lakh litres of rainwater. This is the result of a project undertaken alongwith Bangalore…
Australia based Rhino Water Tanks has found a sole distributor in India in Mumbai based Tanclean Pvt Ltd. Speaking CIJ, Harvey Durstun, MD, Rhino Water Tanks said that the company…
The Government of Karnataka, through the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department, has launched a rooftop rainwater harvesting programme for 23,683 schools across the state. The programme seeks to provide each student with 1.5 litres of drinking water every day through harvesting rainwater from rooftops of the schools.
Owing to scarcity of water plaguing most of the areas in Bengaluru, Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has made rainwater harvesting mandatory for new buildings on areas that…
When Navin Chandra, a retired Chemical Engineer, took over as Secretary of the Sealine Cooperative Housing Society in Union Park, in Mumbai’s western suburbs, he was determined to make a…
The recently inaugurated Gujarat Eco Textile Park at Surat will produce textile products in an environment friendly way. Among the plant’s salient features are a common effluent treatment plant of…
To encourage rainwater harvesting (RWH) on a large scale Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is planning to award co-operative housing societies which practice water conservation. BMC wants to reach out to residents…
As part of the World Earth Day, some Chennai school students visited the house of Indra Kumar of Home Exnora, a prominent landmark in Chrompet region. The students and school…
The government has sanctioned 213 new coal plants to come up in the next eight years. This does not make sense when two-third of India’s CO2 emissions already comes from coal. We face climate emergency and when alternative energy sources exist. “Why New Coal? Climate Ride 2009, India” which got launched on January 17 in Kolkata would spread the message to raise awareness of climate change. Dr. Shoma Chatterjee caught up with the two riders getting prepared for a 1500km cycle ride
Mumbai’s Dawoodi Bohra community is sending out prayers that are green in nature! The community plans to return to nature what they got from it by constructing a mosque that…