11 killed and over 80,000 dislocated… cyclone Gaza is spreading its fury over cities in Chennai.
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Water Water Everywhere, Why Not Know It Better?
Sanitation and the lack of proper toilets for doing your do-dos is an issue that cripples the developing and under-developed countries. There is the infrastructure aspect, the cleanliness aspect, the health aspect, and finally the awareness aspect. Let’s create some buzz and spread the word!!
Read on to find out what India is doing to proactively encourage citizens to embrace the Swachh Bharat theme around the time of the World Toilet Day, which is November 19th.
Are we ever going to get out of this cyclone season? Didn’t we just track a Typhoon that wreaked havoc in Philippines?
Read on to find out more about Cyclone Gaza hitting the coasts of Tamil Nadu. I don’t think things are dry enough in that part of the country to take these continual hits.
I remember the challenges of trying to squeeze your way through a herd of motivated people, making your way to the head of the line, filling your receptacle with the water gushing through the tanker pipe and the most challenging part-making your way out of the same herd without spilling much of your prized possession- a bucket full of water. This is story of some days of my childhood when our taps ran dry and the memory never goes away. And no I am no slum dweller.. I just happen to be in any regular city in India with poor water management and distribution system. Mine was just charged with additional political issues. There are at least four or five threads touched in this article that are worth reading. The poor management of groundwater for one, the water quality issues, the ever persistent water mafia, the public outcry and involvement and the last statement. Take 5 minutes of your time and
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October is typically the month of annual planning at our firm, which I am sure is the case for most corporations. As we were going through the SWOT analysis and where we are and where we go from here.. discussions, i had a thought to myself that I need an AOP for myself. Every year, I just plunge into the year without a whole lot of plan for what the year should look like for me and how i would define success for myself and which aspect of my profession and me as a person requires more attention in this year compared to the others. Well, I figured I would do that thinking aloud and plan my AOP here on my website. No pressure.. right? This below is my plan for the year 2019 and since I have another month or so to end this year, I may come back and edit this post until the end of the year.
A significant amount of my time as an engineer is spent in thinking of unique, innovative, and useful ways of presenting information but mostly importantly data. Needless to say, this infographic caught my attention. Hope you like to see how prevalent is the groundwater usage in US.
Photo Credit: @valentinlacoste