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I had written an earlier blog post: Industries over Environment Just saw a program on how indusries (especially foreign industries) are built by covering dried water bodies. Even though these industrial programs have programs towards greening the environment, they have done everything against environment in building these industries in Sriperumbudur, India. Another earlier blog: Eco Vs Eco One future environmental engineer asked me the following question regarding the above blog post: hello dr.makesh, Considering your opinion on the Environment Ministry's decision on disallowing Vedanta from mining bauxite in Orissa I have a doubt. Where do you think should we draw a line between environmental importance and economic importance? Since I am new to this field I am still confused what viewpoint to take! I have an opinion that in the name of environmental protection we should not be a barrier to development (in this case bauxite is very important for us too). Please cor...

In an earlier post I had said about eco Vs ECO (eco represented environment and ECO represented ECONOMICS) and always the later won. Also was hoping that one day that tables would turn. I did not think it would turn that way this soon. Earlier Post on 07/2010 Now it ECO vs eco - here ECO is environment and eco - is economic. This time Environment is saved: Environment authorities of India rejected proposals to mine the mountain (Billions of $s), which would have affected the tribes. The government has also stopped a $12-billion steel plant proposed by South Korea's POSCO in Orissa. Earlier Post on 08/2008 What people do not consider is the economics involved in environmental disasters. Health related expenses due to environmental and ecological issues. A day will come when economics of environmental disaster will be added to overall economics. That time Environment (Eco) will take over Economics(eco). Makesh Karuppiah, PhD Environmental Scientist & Information Techno...

The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : DRI seizes 127 tonnes of imported e-waste Good these eWastes are sent back. My earlier eWaste Postings: India Dumping Ground for eWastes One more Dumping site Watch out for eWastes - they are hazardous.

Sustainable Land Development Project: eco vs ECO - Title implies that lower case eco is for environmental and UPPER CASE ECO for ECONOMICS. May be one day we can change that. As our aim is to use natural resources, we tried to bring in the solar and wind power to EA Farms. However initial queries for these ended up with huge cost estimates. We contacted a company that produces water from wind. Their technology is good, but the quote for the system was above our limits. Then we contacted another company for solar and wind energy Combo unit. This cost was also high. Our power requirement will be minimum and hence we are planning to go with regular power resources (which we have several issues also :-)) rather than SOLAR & WIND Energy for time being. As always Economics take over precendence over Environment. But we will not give up. EA Farms will conform with minimal usage of power and try use renewable resource as we move forward.

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Water for the farm. As water is one of the key elements of farming, and our land has no water resource we were all praying for the help and guidance from heaven. The prayers were always there in the back of my mind even though I was involved in other activities. 14-06-2010 Finding water points at the land. I spoke to Ravi aka captain on finding the water points at the land. This is an amazing exercise. Few humans are blessed with this power of locating the water points. Their body reacts to the ground water. Different people have different techniques, some use wooden sticks, some use metal rods, while some use water in a plastic pot. The water pot jumps around when they carry it around at the location where there is water beneath. Though Ravi himself has this capability he did not want to try for a huge land, as he has done only for building plots, which is much smaller in size. But he recommended one Mr. Ramasamy, an aged man; I guess he should be in his late 50s or early 60s who ...

I recently visited India. Positives I noted: Highways between cities - were good. Road travel is getting better ( Still improvements are needed such as Direction Boards, Solar lights, more trees on the side of the roads etc. More work needs to be done inside the cities regarding traffic and roads. It is ultimate chaos inside the cities). Businesses are blooming. Business buildings are excellent with International standards. Negatives: Unfortunately, I had to attend a funeral. The burial ground was horrible. It was not at all walk able. Cleanliness was never there. The last ritual should be done in a clean place. Here it was opposite. There are so many rich educated people living in each and every town (especially this town), I am not sure why they left the burial grounds like this. Also, I saw so many young people standing in long lines in liquor shop. I was so much worried how many resources are going waste. Already so many people's health are deteriorating be...