Scarier than you can imagine right now

Life, Liberty, Water - CommonDreams.org

If the governments are "actively" worried, its obviously a lot closer than seems at first glance. And, as someone commented in the discussion of the above article, this is all for a resource thats essentially renewable.

We're really really screwing up.

"Virtual Water" - true ?

Everything You Know About Water Conservation Is Wrong | Environmental Policy | DISCOVER Magazine


If this is indeed true, then techniques like drip irrigation and rural RWH will be way more impactful in the larger context. Of course, there's the whole other issue of concentrated pockets of populations - urban - consuming more than locally available to their geographical area. That surely is something rainwater harvesting addresses.

Small big step towards plastic degradation?

TheRecord.com - CanadaWorld - WCI student isolates microbe that lunches on plastic bags

Sounds simplistic, but I'm sure a lot of "wow" stuff gets overlooked for similar reasons. While there is some cynicism, am staying positive on this till there is definitive negative news. If true, this guy should get the biggest VC funding to start his company around this idea - this will do us all a huge favour - way more important than anything else we've "invented" in the last couple of decades.

Great leap forward

BWSSB to recycle water

We have a recyclable water problem in our area we're all trying to solve. Hope the BWSSB wakes up to this at a wider connected scale, and not just as an isolated project. Great step, nevertheless.

Great Message in a kids book

Found this as I was reading my daughter a story. Rain, downpipes, collection. Nice, quiet message in a book (from "Skiddle-de-daddle - A first book of Noises" - My Wonderful WORDBOX)

The growth story and h2o

Water Scarcity Threatens China's Future - Environment - New York Times

I guess this is true of many Indian cities too. Huge suburbs in Bangalore have no water connections - they either sink their own borewells or get the water from suppliers who do that - all of this leading to rapid depletion of groundwater.

Whats the solution ? Official water supply agencies can handle only so much growth, and are hard pressed to generate enough water for current demand levels itself.

Recharge ? Its a solution that may have no immediate benefit for those doing the spending - but would lead to sustainable groundwater if done by every house, every apartment. Tough ask - who's to implement and monitor this ?

Hurtling down a cliff....

Indian rivers heading for disaster- Hindustan Times

The "cost" of not being able to treat all the sewage has to be higher than treating it. No rivers is a very scary scenario to imagine.