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Phillip Hermes is the famous designer who has envisioned and created a capsule called Urban Mole. It is actually a robot that would wade through sewers to delivers packages. Why on earth? Well, apparently by the time it is 2020, there would be no space in our cities to deliver packages and parcels and only sewers would provide the passage and transit [...]

That water is a precious and increasingly scarce resource is something that New Delhi knows very well. When summer arrives and temperatures rise in the city, most parts of the capital of the second most populous country in the world still has only four hours of water readily available at the tap everyday. The rest of the time, people use the water [...]

Riachuelo Basin is home to more than 5 million people. Most of them are immigrants or children of immigrants who came from the provinces in search of work. 75 percent of this population suffers from a disease related to pollution. Nitrates affect children resulting in an illness that is a deadly type of cyanosis or ‘blue baby syndrome.’ For starters, [...]

China’s breakneck economic growth over the past two decades was bound to take a take a toll on China’s environment, especially in its water quality which has suffered severely in the last few years. The most notable victim has been China’s moist scenic water body (Ofcourse, until some time back) – the 900-square-mile Taihu Lake, in [...]