Forgetting Science Indian politicians take great pride in the country being a major scientific nation, what with all the nuclear power plants, missiles and atomic bombs that we build and ... |
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Planning for Water Compare Southeast Asia with South Asia. The land area of Southeast Asia is 435 million hectares (mha). In South Asia, India is 327 mha and all other countries include... |
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Artificial Glaciers A great example of how decentralised approaches to water harvesting boost innovation ...... |
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Tankas Tankas (small tank) are underground tanks, found traditionally in most Bikaner houses. They are built in the main house or in the courtyard. They were circular holes made in the ground, lined wit... |
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Natural Building Books for the Roof, Walls and Floor. This is a small but growing collection of books devoted to natural building techniques for the roof, walls and floors like the living roof, wood shingles... |
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Kul Kuls are water channels found in precipitous mountain areas. These channels carry water from glaciers to villages in the Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh. Where the terrain is muddy, the kul is lined with rocks t... |
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Yellow-coloured water gushes out of the 61-metre deep tubewell at a Ghazibad-based dyeing factory What goes down must come up It is a crime. Numerous factories deliberately inject un... |
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THAR DESERT Kunds / Kundis A kund or kundi looks like an upturned cup nestling in a saucer. These structures harvest rainwater for drinking, and dot the sandier tracts of the Thar Desert in w... |
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GRASSROOT INITITATIVE Water in the wells View the slideshow 1. The scourge of water scarcity in Saurashtra Saurashtra was not always a water-scarce area. People say that water was easily availa... |
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Anil Agarwal It was a meeting with an amazing lesson. The subject was rainwater harvesting. But the message was one on governance. And a truly stark one. If only India could learn from it... |
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More results for 'making science great again'.
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