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Environment Support Group (ESG), an NGO based in Bangalore draws attention to a landfill at Mavallipura village near Bangalore International airport which is being managed by a private operator.

As I had been waking up to the leaky tap in my new house for quite some time; I thought it would be interesting to look at the different ways water gets wasted. In this post I attempt to do a photo blog from my past photo collections on this subject from different parts of the country.

Its been three weeks since I moved into my new rented apartment. It's a classic situation in which I am caught up in. I am a consultant working on "SUSTAINABLE WATER solutions", but I hardly have control on a leaky tap in my bath room. This leaky tap can fill up a bucket of water in a period of 2 hours. The capacity of my bucket will be around 30 liters.

A consultation was organised by Arghyam Trust in September 2009, to share experiences on Sustainable and Ecological Sanitation with the Planning Commission.

Back in the 1920s, the peasants of Mulshi Peta, near Pune, India, had protested against the construction of a dam being built with government support by the industrial house of the Tatas. As a marker of the transition from an agrarian to an industrialised society, the Mulshi satyagraha anticipated many of the modern protest movements.

The following case studies on drinking water management, describe the efforts of Pravah and its partner organisations, in organising drinking water at the village level, along with rural communities of Gujarat.

 Climate Change has already arrived in India.  The recent flooding in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka is portentuous of the times to come.  As climate change accelerates, so will the unpredictability and intensity of the rainfall, giving rise to s

This presentation by Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) Mysore, was made at the Seminar on Packaged Water Industry in India, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 30th June 2009.

This presentation made at the Seminar on Packaged Water Industry in India, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on 30th June 2009, gives details of the BIS regulations applicable to Packaged Drinking Water.