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Environment

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From ‘water-starved’ to ‘water-surplus’: Shimla’s success story inspiring other Himachal towns

Water Supply
Can individual water metering help Indian cities avoid Doomsday?
Is there any scarce resource that we can enjoy for free or for a fixed sum, irrespective of the amounts we consume or use? If that’s not true for anything, why should it be so for water? As Indian cities stand perilously close to running dry, a look at whether water metering can help the cause of conservation

Environment
A wetland on just 1% of Bandra Kurla Complex could lessen Mumbai’s flooding problems!
A wetland of that size with two retention basins has managed to mitigate urban flooding to a large extent in an Australian suburb. And such wetlands can be created even in a congested city, as Japanese examples have shown. These and other innovative solutions from the east merit serious consideration in flood-prone Mumbai.

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