TIRUCHI: Decentralised and community-based systems could provide an efficient and cost-effective solution for individual houses, apartments and colonies in urban centres. While centralised treatment systems required huge capital investments and could pose problems in terms of maintenance and efficiency, decentralised system offered a viable alternative for management of wastewater.

Erode
Action please: Effluents from a yarn-dyeing factory at Vairapalayam in Erode enter Kalingarayan Canal, which irrigates thousands of acres in Erode district.

Karthik Madhavan ERODE: Infectious Diseases ward at the Government Hospital, Erode, is as good as a patient.The asbestos roofed Ward 33, which has separate sections of men and women, is filthy, to say the least. The floor in the men

ERODE: In the backdrop of frequent power cuts and increasing power costs, the Erode Corporation has decided to go in for energy-saving bulbs.

Karthik Madhavan

Following nature

An increase in population, unplanned expansion in the command area of the river Bhavani in Tamil Nadu and the growing domestic and industrial demand for water have intensified competition among water users in the river basin.

ERODE: An academician-turned-entrepreneur in Erode has claimed to have made a device intended to improve fuel efficiency of petrol cars by about 15 per cent on normal road conditions.

S. Nehru, who worked as a faculty in a private polytechnic college, converted his idea into a product at the Technology Business Incubator at Kongu Engineering College here.

Technology

TNEB acquires the land necessary for the construction of the sub-stations

boosting power supply: The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board

It is the responsibility of the current generation to spare resources for the ones to come

Need to save: Collector R. Sudalaikannan flags off the rally organised to mark Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Day in Erode on Tuesday.

ERODE: Collector R. Sudalaikannan has urged judicious use of energy sources.

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