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by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
This Waste Warrior From Mumbai has Cleaned 6.7 Tonnes of Trash From 11 Waterfalls! In the last 18 months, Dharmesh’s group, consisting of 20 members has ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
IIT Jodhpur has developed a low-cost, environment-friendly solution that uses the sun and Rajasthani clay to purify contaminated water. Describing the ...
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by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC), which held its first meeting on Thursday, directed the four member states -- Karnataka, Tamil ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A new study published in Science Advances shares a bright outlook: replacing some rice with less thirsty crops could dramatically reduce water demand in ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A team of engineering students has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can identify areas prone to water logging , and may help metro ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Changes in temperature and rainfall will impact almost half of South Asia in the coming decades, reducing economic growth in one of the world's poorest ...
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by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
Within a span of a week, two interesting reports on the state of national water situations were made public. Indians have heard of NITI Ayog’s first-ever ...
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In the context of the initiative Blueprint for Water Accounting in India, anchored with the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga ...
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In the context of the initiative “Blueprint for Water Accounting in India” of the India-EU Water Partnership, several workshops have been held so far and ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
‘The Big Picture’ pannel guests analyze how to deal with the water crisis in India. Guests: Nitin Desai, Former Deputy Secretary General, Environment & ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The Central Water Commission (CWC) and tech giant Google signed an agreement to share expertise on flood forecasting. Under the agreement, the CWC will have ...
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by Trudi Schifter, CEO and Founder AquaSPE
Rajasthan has improved its ranking in the NITI Aayog’s composite water management index By restoring 80 per cent of the irrigation potential of identified ...
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India is facing its worst-ever water crisis, with some 600 million people facing acute water shortage, a government think-tank says. The Niti Aayog report, ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A new Duke University-led study has found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers in 16 Indian states. The main source of the uranium ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur and University of Oxford have developed a low-cost technology to treat water contaminated with ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
India is among the hotspots where overuse of water resources has caused a serious decline in the availability of freshwater, according to a first-of-its-kind ...
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24 x 7 water supply is possible by using existing resources. The outlet supply of water from the water scare bore wells will be adjusted as per the inlet flow ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Water meters will be installed in houses and organizations in the state capital under the area based development (ABD) scheme for free, announced Patna ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
Using three bacterial species isolated from domestic sewage, researchers from India have successfully removed chloropyrifos pesticide from both water and ...
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by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
A company that makes packaging out of plant fibers hopes to address two problems at once: air pollution from the burning of crop stubble, and landfills and ...
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