Eco Centric

The Great Indian Thirst https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/ With the onset of summers, the worrysome thing in my locality is whether our locality's well would be able to give us water for the three cruel hot months ahead...?? By the way we (the people in my locality) are not the only ones who go through the same thought process every summers. As per NITI Aayog report of 2018 stated : That nearly 600 million or nearly half of India's population, almost half of India's population faces extreme water crisis. 75% of rural households doesn't have piped, potable water . Those households rely on sources which can have serious implications on human health. 70% of our sources are contaminated. Major rivers are dying due to insane amount of pollution in them. Groundwater table is depleting at a rapid pace and India is World's largest extractor of Ground water accounting for almost 25% . All in all we are suffering from " worst water crisis " and going towards even ...

Tackling Indoor Air Pollution through Phytoremidiation (plants)🎋🌴 We usually hear a lot about pollution precisely air pollution in the months of october - december, and people in Delhi do crib a lot about this matter, why won't they crib as air pollution is a big source of many respiratory diseases to heart diseases, cancer, etc. Some stats related to the fatalities because of poor Indoor Air Quality It sounds scary when you get to know that around 4.3 million people die worldwide due to poor air quality prevailing inside the houses, a round 3.8 million premature deaths occur annually from non-communicable diseases including ischaemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are all attributed to exposure to household air pollution, as per reports from WHO. So now you might have understood the severeness of the problem which don't get highlighted enough because of the more worsened AQI levels outside in some parts of the World.  What are the...