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Regional Approach to Municipal Solid Waste Management
Increasing urbanisation and changing lifestyles are generating an enormous quantum of waste that small or even big cities cannot manage independently. To meet the challenge, a regionally organised man...
Managing India’s Hazardous Wastes
The growing economy along with emerging industries generates hazardous waste which if not managed can pose to be a serious health hazard. Various strategies put forward by the Ministry of Environment...
Wastewater Management in Urban India
The growing urban population and the developmental activities in rural India, both exert pressure on water supply and sewage systems. The existing infrastructure is incapable of meeting the ever-incre...
Kashmir-Trek to the Great Lakes
An energetic bunch of 32 trekkers left the slopes of Sonamarg a week earlier, weathered trials and tribulations to emerge humbled by the sheer majesty of Kashmir’s beauty.
Artificial Recharge and Sustainable Management of Groundwater
With the increase in demand, withdrawal of groundwater has increased manifold over past few decades resulting in the long-term decline in groundwater levels. A higher rate of withdrawal over several y...
Update: Degradation Watch
With increasing degradation of environment and bottlenecks in the implementation of policies and laws, there is a need for awareness and proactive thinking among the masses. Here is an update on some...
Update-Waste Watch
Waste management is an essential and basic service that needs social engineering and technical interventions. We need to streamline waste management policies in the country for the upkeep of an enviro...
Mysore Learns to Map
LIGHTS opened its doors to the most interested and vibrant school teachers of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, to train them and through them the GenX, about the dynamical GIS, GPS and remote se...