Once hit by a deadly plague, Surat is now India’s cleanest city. With smart tech, community effort, and a Rs 500 crore waste economy, it shows how cleanliness can become a habit.
Ensuring that no untreated water is released into the Yamuna, the Noida Authority will now treat 100 million litres of sewage water a day to cater to the increasing number of high-rise apartments, biodiversity parks and green belts!
But as the world today struggles to find significant solutions to the environmental adversities of water pollution, sewage treatment, waste management and toxic pesticide infested food, some experts are proving the unique role these tiny agents of nature can play to ease its environmental woes.
The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and concerned authorities were also directed to run a campaign to create awareness about the harmful effects of cleaning sewers on the health of the workers.
A sleepy little village in Puducherry, Chinna Kalapet has embarked upon a journey of sustainable transformation by treating its wastewater the eco-friendly way.
Yenepoya Medical College in Mangalore, which has implemented rainwater harvesting (RWH) within its campus, has drastically reduced its dependence on water tankers, thus saving lakhs of Rupees every year. Learn how they went about this.