Konkan Railway

Several areas in Delhi may soon get respite from water scarcity as Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is all set to commission a new water treatment plants Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday reviewed the ongoing projects o the DJB and said there would be no dearth of funds for drinking water projects Officials said the commissioning of 20 MGD Water Treatment Plant (WTP) in Okhla and 40 MGD WTP at Dwarka

People are very entrenched in the way they do their laundry," says Adam Lowry, the co-founder and chief "greenskeeper" at Method. And that's a problem, as we'll explain in a moment.

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At the International Space Station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind.

Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air.

MUMBAI: In an attempt to tackle the city's growing water shortage problem, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to pass a proposal making it mandatory for all new buildings to install water recycling systems. Here, grey water (household non-toxic water) is disinfected and then reused for non-potable purposes (see box).

New Delhi: The Delhi airport extracts 5,000 kilolitres of water per day (KLD) from the ground though it does not have Central Ground Water Authority

Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to establish proper mechanism for treating industrial effluents as only one percent of wastewater is treated, daily, before being discharged directly into rivers and sea.

Aerogels could help in treating oil-contaminated water an aerogel is best described as jelly sans the moisture. But unlike jelly that dries up and cracks when water is removed from it, aerogels do not crack. They are like sponges with a surface containing millions of nano-sized pores that can absorb anything