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July 31, 2012
India: Hyderabad suffering from sewage coming out of taps
The capital of Andhra Pradesh is facing a troubling scenario – the water supplied by the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) is highly turbid and at times containing sewage. Wasa officials said that almost the entire sewerage system in the district had been damaged and sewage was seeping into water […]
July 31, 2012
Innovative aid and water purification
There are many people in the world, both in the past and the present who have died for causes which were preventable – diseases caused by consumption of polluted water, unfit for drinking. This post enlists some of the most popular and effective innovations in purifying water for the developing […]
July 31, 2012
India: Need for potable water to curb hepatitis
According to experts, poor water supply and sanitation, and neglected public health system are the root causes of heavy burden of hepatitis-infected people in the country. India and China have the highest proportion of such patients. Read more here.
July 31, 2012
Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: Experiences From sub-Saharan Africa
This report is a result of a new Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group initiative. It contains a review of 43 programmes across sub-Saharan Africa, including four in-depth case studies, and finds that natural synergies between water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming and conservation work provide opportunities for greater effectiveness in addressing both. […]
July 31, 2012
US$125 million US-India initative drives WUSTL
As part of the US$125 million US-India Initiative for Clean Energy announced this year, engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will work on low-cost solar cells as well as systems that integrate solar cells with batteries – a technology that designed to help spread access to solar electricity […]
July 31, 2012
Trickle-up innovation – a solar innovation that helps the rich, and vice versa
A pair of entrepreneurs who set out to design a solar charger for electricity-starved Ugandans has unexpectedly created a product popular with American consumers. Mike Lin and Brian Warshawski developed the ReadySet charging kit give Ugandans off the grid, where most people are dependent on mobile phones for their cash […]
July 31, 2012
Grameen installs over 500 solar home systems a day
The company Grameen Shakti has been instrumental in installing almost one thousand solar home systems a day in the rural areas of one of the poorest countries in the world – Bangladesh. By the end of the year it will have installed one million solar systems and plans to install five […]
July 31, 2012
World’s first fully autonomous SolarKiosk running in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has one of the hottest climes in the world, and mostly all of this solar energy goes to waste. This is where German-designed SolarKiosk may be most useful and highly functional. SolarKiosk powers itself with the help of solar energy, and can additionally run something with the energy requirement […]
July 31, 2012
Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun provides 5 hours of continuous lighting
Artist Olar Elliasson launched his innovative Little Sun solar-powered lamps recently, which aims to be a viable, safe source of lighting in areas in the developing world without power. The highlight of this lamp is that it claims to be functional and provide lighting for up to 5 hours continuously. […]
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