With all those comparisons between Cape Town and Bengaluru, water is perhaps predictably on top. But what are the other issues that urban voters are talking about? Recent ADR-Daksh survey has some pointers.
Wherever we are, most of use far more water than needed. And then we wait for someone else to solve the city’s water problems. Let’s change that today, and it’s really easy with these tips.
Products we use every day affect our water footprint to a large extent. As summer approaches, and the fear of water shortage rises in our cities, here are a few switches that can help save the precious resource and avert crisis.
Running events in our major cities bring together 11000 to 45000 runners annually. In most races, they are given single-use plastic water bottles, or packaged food and drinks. That’s a lot of waste! Now, a Bengaluru runner has started a campaign to change that.
At a time when the city is struggling in the face of unplanned growth, Pune citizens come together to save water resources and set examples for sustainable use of water.
All those water parks and rain dances that the urban citizen enjoys, where do they source their water from? The answers may be disquieting, as this Hyderabad research project shows.
With a spiralling demand-supply gap, the water problems of every Indian city are set to assume nightmarish proportions unless immediate action is taken. We must each do our bit on a daily basis and it is so simple if you know how!
Innovative Participatory Aquifer Mapping project seeks to educate residents about precious groundwater and also involve them in sharing information about borewells in their communities.
16-year-old Garvita Gulhati and 17-year-old Pooja Tanawade from Bengaluru have launched “Why Waste,” focussing on saving water in restaurants and waste segregation at source.