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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Home to nearly a sixth of the world’s population, India gets only 4 percent of the Earth’s fresh water with 50% of the country in high water stress On a ...
Social Water Scarcity Water Access Water Recycling
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
As large swathes of drought-devastated India desperately wait for the monsoon rains to arrive, one village in the dry, hot north is flush with water. But ...
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There is a potential threat of contamination of groundwater by using mindlessly toilets since faecal matter contains certain micro-organisms, which would ...
Academic Pollution Water & Sanitation Septic Tank Groundwater Pollution
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Using natural materials like sugarcane bagasse and coir, Rakshit Prabhakaran has built a water-purifier that thousands of people can afford Water purifiers ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A study published in the International Journal of Engineering Sciences and Research Technology concluded that even the expensive water treatment plants were ...
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Government today approved pact with Taiwan for cooperation in the field of agriculture and allied sectors The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) provides for ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Vinod Anthony Thomas, a tenth semester student of Faculty of Architecture (FOA), Manipal University, has clinched the second prize at a public competition ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board (KUWSDB) plans to enter the “highly competitive” business of bottled drinking water. It has proposed to ...
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On Monday, as it’s been for weeks now, hundreds of farmers from mountainous Bundelkhand, a drought-ravaged region of north central India, climbed down from ...
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Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), has partnered with three cities under the Smart City campaign, including Pune. The confederation is also set to launch ...
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by Vishakha Rajput, Previous COO The Water Network at AquaSPE AG
Phase I of the Ken-Betwa linking could roll soon. The background to what is probably India’s most ambitious infra plan — and the status of its first project. ...
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India signed a $100 million (about Rs 677 crore) loan agreement with multilateral lending agency World Bank for the Karnataka Urban Water Supply Modernisation ...
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Recently, Art of Living Foundation (AOL) head Sri Sri Ravi Shankar visited the dry Manjara riverbed in Latur, Maharashtra. AOL’s project Jal Jagruti ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
PM Narendra Modi said a number of states have taken some good initiatives towards water conservation and that he had asked Niti Aayog to study the best ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Mining in the Ganga and its tributaries will restart after the Centre cleared in April the Uttarakhand government’s proposal, which has drawn criticism from ...
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Mar 8, 2016: WABAG WABAG in consortium with IDE Technologies has won an INR 594 crores (around Euro 80 million) contract from Chennai Metropolitan Water ...
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In January 2014, after a two-year struggle to raise money for his startup, Samuel Rajkumar, 45, sold his company's sole product to a non-governmental ...
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A resolution directing soft drink major PepsiCo to stop drawing ground water for its plant at Kanjikode in Kerala's Palakkad district, was passed on ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Two years of poor rains add pressure to manage water better in India No rain, no water, no choice. That’s how 26-year-old Vijay Jadhav describes his ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Central Pollution Control Board has received 241 complaints in the last three years against various industries for not complying with the rules pertaining ...
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