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Nov 27 2018

South Mumbai society recycles 90% of its waste, thanks to this teen environment crusader

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Environment, Information, Women Empowerment / By SLSV / November 27, 2018 November 27, 2018

Seventeen-year-old Aarushi Majumder’s friends and neighbors call her a “green warrior.” She earned the sobriquet from them after she convinced her society to adopt environment-friendly means of waste management. Majumder’s society, Sumer Trinity Towers in Prabhadevi, installed 12 wet-waste composters last year which generate 8.6 tonnes of organic compost every month. 200kgs of the dry …

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Nov 26 2018

Indian Scientists Develop World’s First Low-Temperature Thermal Desalination Plant

Leave a Comment / Eco-Friendly, Environment, Information / By SLSV / November 26, 2018 November 26, 2018

Scientists at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai have developed world’s first low temperature thermal desalination plant, which could address drinking water problems in India’s ocean island territories and even offshore urban centres along the coastline. Low temperature thermal desalination (LTTD) is one process that uses the availability of a temperature gradient between …

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Nov 22 2018

India Second Most Polluted Country In The World, Says Study

Leave a Comment / Environment, Health, Pollution, research / By SLSV / November 22, 2018 November 22, 2018

Particulate pollution is so severe that it shortens the average Indian’s life expectancy by more than four years relative to what it would be if World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines were met. NEW DELHI: India is the world’s second most polluted country, slightly trailing only Nepal, the Energy Policy Institute at the University …

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Nov 19 2018

Farmer Son’s Low-Cost, Zero-Electricity Purifier Cleans 500 Litres of Water Daily!

Leave a Comment / Eco-Friendly, Environment, Interview, Save Earth / By SLSV / November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018

Water is undoubtedly a necessity for everyone, but for several drought-hit rural villages in India, it is considered to be a luxury. A classic example of this is the heartbreaking story of the water wives of Dengamal in Maharashtra. Dengamal is a village that has been hit by severe drought in the last few years, …

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Nov 19 2018

Karnataka to West Bengal: How climate change is ravaging India’s coastline

Leave a Comment / Environment, Information, research / By SLSV / November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018

First, in 2011, the sea took away some of their land. Three years later, the waves demolished a section of their home. That is when Budhwant Karvi, 40, knew it was time to move but his elderly parents refused. “They said we have lived here for generations and will continue to do so,” said Karvi, …

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