Feature Article

ipsita's picture

The durability factor

Some mud houses built on the outskirts of Bangalore have developed cracks, raising doubts about the viability of mud as a building material. What went gone wrong?

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

As strong as steel

Efforts to make mud suitable for constructing houses have been going on for years and there have been significant breakthroughs.

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Mud is the medium

ARCHITECTS hoped to establish mud as a viable building medium when they set out to build the country's first major environmentally-sound building. The mud headquarters in Delhi of Development

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Water treatment need not cost the earth

19921015

Countries like India are increasingly opting for expensive, high tech water treatment systems instead of low cost, low tech water treatment alternatives.

0
1
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Problem with conventional water treatment technologies

H K Barman

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Touching up water treatment

THE SWEDISH city of Malmo has carefully landscaped an area of about 10,000 ha, which functions as a natural stormwater treatment plant. In Malmo, on the southern Swedish coast, several projects

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Lesson from school students

A high school in the Swedish town of Stensund is an educational centre that can teach the world a lesson on how to manage wastewater.

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Who needs high tech water treatment plants?

TRADITIONAL communities developed ingenious ways of making use of wastewater. And, experts involved in the modern science of ecological engineering can learn a great deal from them. There is a

1
0
19921015
Publication Date: 
14/10/1992
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

Purifying the Ganga

19920930

"The story of the Ganges, from her source to the sea, from old times to new, is the story of India"s civilisation ..." - Jawaharlal Nehru

0
1
Publication Date: 
29/09/1992
Author: 
Main Topic: 
ipsita's picture

United, these survive, save and survive

19920930

A voluntary organisation is transforming the lifestyles of villagers by involving women in collective work. The men are also following suit, but not so successfully

0
1
Publication Date: 
29/09/1992
Author: 
Main Topic: 

Pages