Reverse Osmosis

IIT Bombay students Arpit Upadhyay and Mohit Jajoriya have devised an RO hand pump that needs no electricity to generate clean drinking water, aiming to provide equitable access to rural India.

Wondering how to reuse waste water from your RO filter? Bengaluru's Prabhath Vijayan has installed a simple set up in his flat that lets him easily use it for other household purposes.

“In effect, your regular kitchen basin tap is replaced with the one that we have designed,” explains Arjun. With this alteration, when you switch on the tap, the RO wastewater gets mixed with regular water and flows out.

Letting RO water outlet into a bucket for mopping the floors, making ten-minutes showers mandatory, reusing AC water for my plants – I follow these tips religiously.

A Bangalore based entrepreneur, Dinesh Jain, has reached Chennai with a gift that has the potential to solve the scarcity of drinking water there. He has put together a mobile unit that can convert 20,000 litres of any kind of water into drinking water.

The Railways to now install WVMs in stations across the country.