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Power & water crisis-II: Get your home in order, will you?
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Pause and think for a while
Most of us can say, “How can what I use at my house make such a big difference to the government or whoever supplies me power and water?” Another legitimate response could be, “I pay my taxes anyway – income tax, property tax, development cess, and other such levies. I should be entitled to these things from the government.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Power & water crisis-I: Get your home in order, will you?
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This is a four-part series titled ‘Get your home in order, will you?’ If we stopped fretting over what the government has not done on energy and water, and sort some things at home, more than half the solution will spring before us.
Part 1
The power scene at home
Have you looked at your energy bill recently? What is the amount you pay every month for power? For water? Have you asked yourself what the break up of power used in your house is? Do you realize how much of the power bill is coming out of use of your geysers? How much is consumed by fans, your lighting, your TV set, the grinder and mixer in the kitchen, or worse that electric oven that your mother gifted you on your last birthday? How much of the power is used in your kitchen by the refrigerator, the heating plate, and such other appliances that didn’t even exist 30 years ago? Read the rest of this entry »
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What media says about ZED way of living…
From outside, the Biodiversity Conservation India Limited (BCIL) office in the plush Sadashiva Nagar in Bangalore looks like any other building. But once you step inside, you realise that it is pleasantly different. A part of the premises is lit up and powered by wind energy, while a large number of flowerpots and a staircase, work as makeshift air-conditioners. And a machine that resembles a water dispenser converts moisture in the air into clean drinking water…
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A new kind of riot in the making
We have been familiar with riots of farmers who dispute Cauvery water being offered to Tamil Nadu or TN farmers staging protests of how Karnataka is not giving them water.
There is a different kind of riot now in the making over the next ten years. Read the rest of this entry »
No space for the dead
A friend returned from a funeral the other day. “These days families have begun to accept that bodies can be buried in an old burial patch with the new body interred above an old one,” she said.
Her grandma had passed away, and given the premium on real estate for burial, they had to settle for a patch that already had someone buried some years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
