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Youtube / Slideshare Smart Use of Water and Electricity for Reducing Climate change impact: How? The average American family uses approximately 70% of its 300 gallons of water per day indoors. The majority of household water comes from public sources, such as a water tower, which gets 63% of its water from surface water sources like rivers, lakes, and streams. The remaining 37% is pumped from aquifers and other groundwater sources. Your neighborhood's water supply is strained due to the combined water use of all of the residents. Water shortages may require some communities to update their outdated wastewater treatment and delivery systems. This could lead to higher consumer water prices, water rationing to manage any shortages, and costly water treatment projects to upgrade outdated facilities.(Read in detail at  NEEF ) Again,almost all forms of electricity generate waste. For example, natural gas releases carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Earth's atmosphere traps these gases...

Water Conservation in Satara : Case Study

     Hydroinformatics based StartUps Hydroinformatics is a branch of informatics that concentrates on the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in addressing the increasingly serious problems of the equitable and efficient use of water for many different purposes. Here is a list of the startups which use the knowledge and techniques of hydro informatics to solve real-life problems related to the management of water resources. Before the list let us introduce the concept of Start-Up : "A startup is a young company founded by one or more entrepreneurs to develop a unique product or service and bring it to market. By its nature, the typical startup tends to be a shoestring operation, with initial funding from the founders or their friends and families." There are various water-based Start-Ups that use the concept of hydro informatics,i.e., real-time monitoring(RTM), data analysis, Artificial Intelligence( AI) and Machine Learning(ML), and Internet...

A video about permeable pavements. A pavement which is partially pervious and allows rain water to infiltrate through the walkways. This type of arrangements reduces the volume of runoff and recharges ground water. The sidewalks are designed in such a manner that water can flow through its edges. The flexibility in the blocks, avoid cracks due to the stress developed at the time when liquid water transforms into ice. In this days of water crisis, governments all over the world,specially in the developing countries, must implement or form a policy for installation of such type of permeable pavement to conserve water for efficient management of water resources. Submit your original research papers in Peer reviewed new journals. Share or Utilize Opportunities Post a Vacancy

  After searching the internet we have found the following three journals which are accepting papers about water reuse and reclamation procedure.If anyone is interested to submit a paper related to his/her work of recycling water, he/she can submit the same to the following journals: Desalination   "The International Journal on the Science and Technology of Desalting and Water Purification"..........." Desalination welcomes submissions describing use of desalting technologies such as thermal, membrane, sorption and hybrid processes. In addition, the journal considers exceptional research on new desalination materials, processes and technologies; transport and process modeling; energy consumption, renewable energy and energy recovery; pre-treatment, post-treatment and integrated systems; causes, consequences, and countermeasures of fouling and scaling; and technical, economic, and regulatory analyses of full-scale plants." Publisher : Elsevier SCI : ...

Water Reuse is a topic which is gaining attention day by day.The reason behind the interest is the climate change, urbanization and its impact on available water. As source and amount of water that can be treated is constant the growing demand from the ever-growing population has raised the stress on available water resources of any region manifold. Due to change in climate, amount of rainfall is now either over or under the level of requirement.This abnormality in the rainfall pattern and also the uncontrolled use of natural resources by the population for their earthly gains, has reduced both quality and quantity of water available for consumption.In these regard, the reuse of water is found to be a suitable and acceptable option to somehow mitigate the uncertainty. As the concept of reusing water is not new, but its real importance has recently been understood,doing research in this concept can be beneficial for both mankind and the researcher himself. In my another blog...

The installation of drip irrigation system cost around Rs 1.25 lakh per hectare.The cost for maintenance is also high.This type of system incurs water to the crop in drip manner so that soil moisture can be kept at optimum level most of the time. A farmer in Madhya Pradesh has reduced the cost of drip irrigation to about Rs.2500 by using saline bottles as droppers,a storage tank to store water and some plastic pipes for bringing the water to the dripper. Such innovative applications of waste materials can save money as well as reduce the necessity of disposal which is now a big issue in the western world. Read the full news for more detail .

Designing innovative  agro-machines can save a lot of water from being wasted