Category Archives: Water Issues
Field Trip Part II: I <3 Water
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’ve become a total water and sanitation nerd My day visiting projects was basically epic and after being inspired by the people in Panoli, learning about watersheds, as I did in the next village, was almost excitement overload for me! As we drove toward Sherikoldara, over the bumps in the road [...]
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Field Trip Part I: Girl Power
Yesterday I finally got to visit one of the BPR-funded water projects! After months of tireless work with the Youth Board in Boulder a few years back, I finally got to meet the people who benefited from the projects that the awesome young people I had the pleasure of working with had helped to fundraise [...]
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Indian Women Don’t Pee
On any trip through any part of Bangalore, one catches a glimpse of a man relieving himself. It’s normal to have several such sightings. These sightings of this ‘natural’ behaviour are the inspiration for the cartoon printed in ToI, shown on the right. In fact, that is true in all cities in India (except Mumbai [...]
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Change, the Motor Industry, and Water
Motors are used for many purposes today and consume an estimated 40-50% of India’s electricity. Is there a need to become efficient? They also are used heavily for water, starting in Bangalore in 1894 and now used commonly in borewells across the countryside. Does the industry bear any responsibility for declining groundwater levels? A short [...]
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Adapting RWH to rainfall intensity changes due to climate change
Climate change is affecting rainfall intensity. Do rainwater harvesting systems need to adapt as the intensity increases and possibly the gap between rainfalls?
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Household Water Usage Guided by Spiritual Traditions
When we use our water to bathe and clean we put stuff (cleaners, solvents, chemicals) in it. Our used water flows into our drains and into other eco-systems where other life-forms see this flow as their incoming supply. Thus what we put in impacts others. We can minimize these impacts if using ahimsa (non-violence) as [...]
Dams and Indian Spiritual Traditions
The Narmada dam has the support of the vast majority of the Jain community in India, but the project violates the major tenets of Jainism. A look at the dam from the perspective of various Jain principles (applies to Hindu and Buddhist and most religious principles too). A shorter version was published in 2001 in [...]
Egypt’s Nile v India’s Ganga: Practicality and Reverence