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Why did Indians forget the value of urine as fertiliser?

May 19, 2015
sahanasingh . Ecosan, irrigation, resource management, wastewater management, water reuse . ecosan, farming, fertilizer, irrigation, phosphate mining, phosphorus, Sustainability, urine, urine-separating toilets

My article in Swarajya
http://swarajyamag.com/economy/why-did-indians-forget-the-value-of-urine-as-fertilizer/

Why are Hindu texts being blamed for India’s sanitation problems?

July 17, 2014
sahanasingh . clean water, Drinking water, Ecosan, energy, Hindu scriptures, Hinduism, Hygiene, India, Pollution, Rivers, Sanitation, sewerage, Sustainability, wastewater, Water conservation, Water Policy, water quality, Water Resources . cleanliness, hinduism, hygiene, sanitation

gurukul

The New York Times has just published an article which reports that malnutrition in India is not so much caused by the lack of nutrition as due to the lack of sanitation. This is indeed a damning discovery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/world/asia/poor-sanitation-in-india-may-afflict-well-fed-children-with-malnutrition.html Continue reading →

And now peak phosphorus?

October 9, 2010
sahanasingh . Ecosan, Pollution, Sustainability, waste recovery, wastewater . ecosan, eutrophication, phosphorus, wastewater

A phosphate mine

The murmurs heard a few years ago are now getting louder. The scientific community is worried and it may not be long before the mass media gets to another inconvenient truth. Continue reading →

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