Saturday, July 22, 2017

Seema Sengupta — Radical thinking needed if India is to avoid water collapse

In India, polluted and dried-up rivers, poor storage infrastructure, contaminated groundwater and shrinking aquifers – to name but a handful of problems – have turned the country’s water woes into a hydra-headed monster. With 76 million people – approximately 5% of the country’s total population – living without access to safe drinking water, many experts believe India faces a looming internal water war that will jeopardize all of its ambitious developmental projects, from “Make in India” to building smart cities....
Asia Times
Radical thinking needed if India is to avoid water collapse
Seema Sengupta

Also

New Delhi is running out of water

3 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Technical problem....

All of their qualified people are probably here in he US... i.e. "brain drain...."

Matt Franko said...

This is their wiring:

https://goo.gl/images/e7B2wo

Sheeeesh....

Matt Franko said...

Here just translate into Indian:

http://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-standards/list-of-codes-and-standards/detail?code=70

Technical problem solved...