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Top 5 Sustainability Watch-Outs for 2015 By : Sustainability ..., Dec 30, 2014
2014 for India was defined with Narendra Modi emerging center-stage post a historic election victory in May, and since then, the new government has been actively promoting certain schemes (with synonymous buzz-words like ‘Make in India’, ‘Namami Gange’, ‘... Read more.. |
Zero Liquid Discharge: Treating Effluents as a Resource Stream might be the Way Forward By : Sustainability ..., Dec 11, 2014
Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) is a series of processes (like membrane filtration, reverse osmosis, evaporation and crystallization) that extract pure water from industrial effluents, leaving behind sludge, dissolved solids, suspended particles and salt... Read more.. |
Vehicle Sharing – Exploring the Market in India By : Sustainability ..., Nov 7, 2014
Vehicle sharing is the simplest, most cost effective intervention for addressing the urban mobility problems we are facing today. In the Indian economy, which faces rapid rates of urbanization, urban mobility problems will choke growth in multiple ways, including:... Read more.. Subject Tags: Business , Education , Health , India , Labor , Politics , Resource Efficiency , Social Issues , Technology |
Collaboration to Transform Logistics: From Cost-to-country (CTC) to Benefit-to Country (BTC) By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2014
LOGISTICS SECTOR: HIGH CTC Contrary to popular perception, costs of transporting goods from production sites to the end consumer are significant compared to producing them. The logistics sector costs accounted for 14% India’s GDP and amounted to... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , freight , Green Freight , green freight , India , logistics , Politics , Social Issues , sustainable logistics , Sustainable Logistics , sustainable transport , Technology , transportation |
$500 Million ADB Loans to Improve Urban Services in India's Rajasthan StateBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 28, 2014
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved two loans worth half a billion dollars to help the government in India's largest state of Rajasthan to better manage essential urban services and finance water and sewerage upgrades. |
Farmers fight Coca-Cola as India’s groundwater dries upBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014
Savitri Rai winces as she recounts how police beat her when she protested against groundwater extraction at a Coca-Cola Co. plant near her farm in India. A decade later, she said her water supplies keep dwindling. “We have to dig ever deeper wells,” the 60-year-old said... Read more.. |
Ameliorating the impact of India’s looming water risks: membrane technologies By : Sustainability ..., Oct 6, 2014
Membrane companies in India are proliferating and have grown strongly in the last 4 years. The growth outlook for these companies is extremely positive as fresh water is expected to come under increasing scarcity. This demand for water will rise from domestic, de-salinisation... Read more.. |
PIL seeks ban on Ganesh immersion in TapiBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014
Gujarat high court has issued notices to state government, district collector, police commissioner, municipal commissioner, mayor, Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) and Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) following a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Surat... Read more.. Subject Tags: Social Issues |
'Polluting industrial sites putting Delhites at health risk'By : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014
Polluting industrial sites dot the entire city and are putting Delhites at a huge health risk, said a study report Tuesday. Eighteen sites have been identified as potential 'hotspots' in Delhi that are regularly contaminating the city's environment by releasing toxic... Read more.. |
Electricity from Sewage in IndiaBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 13, 2014
India’s newly elected government’s agenda on sanitation and sewage treatment is intent towards improving the socio-economic spheres of our times. Financial schemes from the central government to build sewage treatment plants, river cleaning programmes and providing clean... Read more.. |