A new study by Indian researchers has shown that only 6 out of 22 river basins in the country have the potential to cope with the threat of climate change, ...
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India is setting up a floating laboratory on the River Bhramaputra to study the biodiversity and ecosystems along the river's floodplain. The move is mainly ...
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A new study has found that mānuka and kānuka plants reduce nitrate leaching into waterways. By Alexa Cook Researchers planted young mānuka, kānuka, and ...
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Water is very essential and a major component of all living creatures. Pure water is colourless, tasteless and odourless, but is generally found ...
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The Kandavara Kere - one of the largest lakes in Chikkaballapur, is set to be rejuvenated with water from Hebbal and Nagavara STPs. In sharp contrast to the ...
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In the Indian city of Pune, tricking out community toilets with Wi-Fi and sensors could be the way to create a modern waste management system and become a ...
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Scientists have made a breakthrough in helping tackle typhoid among slum dwellers. The University of Brighton team won funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates ...
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Waterless Eco-San toilets are exactly what rural India needs in a fight against open defecation, while simultaneously tackling the water shortage. These ...
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Home Minister Naini Narasimha Reddy inaugurated the first water ATM in Hyderbad that would dispense clean and safe drinking water. The initiative is supported ...
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A suitably designed dew-cum-rainwater harvesting plant can potentially harvest 320- 325 mm of rainwater and atmospheric moisture during a year. A group of ...
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After every urban deluge – from Mumbai to Chennai to Gurugram – it is invariably asked, “was all the damage to property and loss of human life avoidable?” ...
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To combat health problems due to high fluoride content in groundwater, the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) has developed a ...
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Drought-stricken Hunagund has been transformed into fertile land, thanks to drip irrigation Karnataka’s tryst with Israel began even before PM Narendra Modi ...
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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar has allocated 2.5 acres of land in the new campus for setting up a state-of-art soil-water-plant lab to address the ...
Coal and power minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the WCL’s Coal Neer and Reverse Osmosis (RO) Water Purification Project at Patansawangi underground coal ...
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The technique will save around 2.8 million litres of water during the eight-day campaign and around 130 million litres per year, Nissan India said. ...
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For the first time, researchers from India and abroad have given positive confirmation on the replenishment of groundwater storage at the regional scale. ...
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Maharashtra is set to get funding worth $1 billion by adopting a multi-stakeholder partnership approach to address critical water resources challenges. Of the ...
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With the polluted lakes no longer supplying it its water, the Bengaluru draws 1350 MLD from the Cauvery river, the lifeline of the city and other districts, ...
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Acute shortage of water in India, particularly following the years there is low rainfall during the monsoon season, has started hurting its energy production ...
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