Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Akash Ganga: Saving Water for a Rainy Day–WSJ
Aakash Ganga: Saving Water for a Rainy Day
The Aakash Ganga experiment to harvest rainwater has been successful in Rajasthan. It is now being tried elsewhere, including China’s Guiyang municipality. Experts interviewed by India Knowledge@Wharton note that if the Aakash Ganga model proves to be scalable, it could solve the problem of scarce drinking water all over rural India and, perhaps, elsewhere.
The Aakash Ganga experiment to harvest rainwater has been successful in Rajasthan. It is now being tried elsewhere, including China’s Guiyang municipality. Experts interviewed by India Knowledge@Wharton note that if the Aakash Ganga model proves to be scalable, it could solve the problem of scarce drinking water all over rural India and, perhaps, elsewhere.