Sunday, July 29, 2007

Loktak Lake : the killer weed


Rapid weed-growth choking largest freshwater lake of northeast India

One sees this issue with numerous lakes around Bangalore too - hyacinth here.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Conservation, Business, Common Sense


Water, the Next Clean Tech Darling? - 2007-07-18 12:21:56 | Venture Capital News

Its probably one of the more satisfying and useful jobs in the world :) Water sit atop food, economic, social, cultural, survival issues, and its no surprise its demand vs supply drives a huge economy around it.

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Main Stream - no pun intended

http://www.indiawaterportal.org/

There are a lot of orgs out there doing good stuff. But somehow, to the major junta this is more of a coffe/cocktail conversation. Not really mainstream.

Therein lies a huge challenge. And water's kind of the tiger for ecological consciousness - a lot many other things follow.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Voices from the water..

The Real Next Big Thing

Fresh Water. 6 billion and counting. Drying. Warming. Desalinization. Price. Cost. Poor. Harvest. Scarcity. Unrest. Divide. Solve. Recycle. Opportunity. Need. Social. Skills. Money. Governments. Control.