How about water quality monitoring on Planet Earth?

It was the ultimate irony. The moon was bombed to find water. Prior to that, the discovery of water molecules in the moon had made it to the headlines of every newspaper.

Our fate is tied to the oceans

Once again, I find myself writing about water pollution.

I went to an ‘exclusive’ holiday resort in India this June. The resort had all the luxuries one could ever want. What’s more, it was right near a seemingly enticing sea beach. Unsuspectingly, I ran towards the water only to find myself in contact with a brown, oil-like liquid splashing all over me. What a shock!

Living in waste?

The World Water Assessment Programme has just confirmed what everyone knew. Human-generated water pollution is rising all over the world and is seriously threatening human and ecosystem health.

Plagued by Plastic

As our group admired Acosol’s odour-free wastewater treatment in Benalmadena, Spain, a delegate from India exclaimed, “But there are so many plastic bags clogging the screens. I didn’t imagine Europe having this problem too!” The plant manager ruefully revealed that plastic bags were indeed a regular nuisance.

Will Vietnam avoid the mistakes China made?

As I stepped out of Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport last fortnight, I smelt the air anxiously to judge if the pollution levels had mounted after my last visit two years back.Being hailed as the next China, Vietnam is said to have Asia’s second largest growing economy and the pace of exports to the US is supposed to be rising faster than even China’s. What all this means to the environment, more specifically the water and wastewater sector is not hard to guess.