Why Better Wastewater Management Could Help Solve Bengaluru’s Water Crisis
‘The solutions are available, but change at the individual, family and community level needs to happen’
If the thought of using sewage water to garden your plants or flush your toilet makes you shudder, you are probably not alone. “There is a term called the yuck factor, and the term is there globally,” says Dr. Veena Srinivasan, the executive director of WELL Labs, a Bengaluru-based research and innovation centre for water management.
And yet, getting over this yuck factor is an important aspect of creating more sustainable water systems, as the recently concluded conference titled Building Water-Resilient Cities: Strategies for Wastewater Reuse in Urban India reiterated.
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Bureau report by The Hindu
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