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Farmers fight Coca-Cola as India’s groundwater dries up

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014

Savitri Rai winces as she recounts how police beat her when she protested against groundwater extraction at a Coca-Cola Co. plant near her farm in India. A decade later, she said her water supplies keep dwindling. “We have to dig ever deeper wells,” the 60-year-old said...

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Waste at Work: Indian Entrepreneurs Turn Dung into Dollars

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014

Across India, young entrepreneurs are finding ways to innovate the mundane. Using found technology, they cobble simple machinery together to do more than just recycle: They’re expanding local resources and transforming waste products into profits. This spring, I visited a few...

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Suzlon Energy Plans New Manufacturing Plants in India

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014

Suzlon Energy Ltd. (SUEL), the Indian wind-turbine maker undergoing debt reorganization, plans to build new manufacturing plants in central India. The factories would support 2,000 megawatts of wind-farm orders that Suzlon expects to win in Madhya Pradesh state in the next...

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Power ministry to sell LEDs at Rs10 against the market price of Rs 400

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

A day after the Nobel Prize in physics was won by the scientists who invented blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the power ministry Wednesday launched a business model enabling the sale of LEDs to households at Rs.10 against the market price of Rs.400.
 
"The...

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Indian State Of Rajasthan Simplifies Regulations To Boost Solar Power Capacity By 25 GW

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

India is on a fast-track to boost its solar power capacity, and as the investors flock to its solar power market, no state would stand to gain more than the western state of Rajasthan.
 
The Rajasthan state government has a policy that dwarfs the national solar...

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Himachal Pradesh govt takes first step towards making state 'Waste Free'

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

Looking at the threat from plastic and other non-biodegradable waste, Himachal Pradesh government on Monday signed an agreement with a Ducth company to conduct a feasibility study for making the hill state 'Waste Free' or 'Zero Waste State'. The agreement was signed between...

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IIHS leads $3 million research programme on Climate adaptation for semi-arid areas of India

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

Climate change is one of the defining developmental challenges of our time. Indian cities and villages are amongst the most vulnerable in the world, with hundreds of millions of people at increased risk of exposure to climate change impacts, especially in drought prone semi-...

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Subject Tags: adaptation , IIHS , India

State master plan for solid waste disposal

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

The state urban local bodies department has sought inputs from 78 state municipal bodies, including MCG, to prepare a state-level master plan for an integrated solid waste management system, to be reviewed and approved by the National Green Tribunal.
 
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India’s energy storage industry ‘encouraged’ by Modi government plans

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

India’s growing energy storage industry shares the enthusiasm of its solar counterpart in welcoming the Modi government’s aims and ambitions, according to one industry veteran.
 
PV Tech spoke to Rahul Walawalkar, executive director of the India Energy Storage...

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Telangana government working towards making Hyderabad global smart city: Minister

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

Telangana Government has taken upon the task of making Hyderabad a global smart city, state Minister for Panchayat Raj and Information Technology K T Rama Rao said today. 
 
"The new state of Telangana has many challenges and opportunities. We have a big agenda...

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