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Septic Tanks 101: Everything you ever wanted or didn’t want to know

Feb 12, 2019

Khushboo Shroff

biological treatment, environment, Wastewater treatment

Bio Solutions, Biotech, Environment, Microbes, Sanitation, Sustainable Solutions, Wastewater Treatment, Water

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There isn’t enough conversation about septic tanks in our regular day-to-day lives. As a consequence, we don’t know enough about septic tanks. What do they do and how do they work and how do we maintain them? These are all questions everybody should know the answers too.

Sanitation and the unlikely link to good health

Jan 30, 2019

Khushboo Shroff

public health, Sanitation, Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, Wastewater treatment

Bio Solutions, Environment, Public Health, Sanitation, Sustainable Solutions, ThinkSafe, Water

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Poor sanitation, lack of access to clean water, and inadequate personal hygiene are responsible for an estimated 88% of childhood diarrhea in India. Taking action to improve health requires understanding the factors that influence exposure to faecal pathogens and the various pathways in which they are exposed to human beings.

Where does sewage go?

Jan 27, 2019

Khushboo Shroff

septic tanks, sewer, waste management

Bio Solutions, Environment, Public Health, Sanitation, Sustainable Solutions, ThinkSafe, Wastewater Treatment

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It is crucial to examine what goes into our waste water, and know and understand where it goes once it leaves our home. It is time to start examining what we put in our cleaning products and how toxic the waste water we create is. Because the health of our waterways, oceans and all the living beings depends on it.

The pressing issue of sanitation in Nigeria

Dec 04, 2018

Gayatri Chowdhary

air pollution, bio-toilets, diseases, environment, nigeria, Sanitation, Toilets, water pollution

Bio Solutions, Environment, Public Health, Sanitation, Sustainable Solutions

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With limited access to sanitation facilities, Nigeria has historically been among the top countries in the world seeing open defecation. Apart from the environmental challenges, this is also blooming into a full-blown health crisis for the country.

India’s diarrhoea problem that no one wants you to know about

May 29, 2018

Dr. Ganesh Kamath

Biotoilet, public health, Sanitation, swacch bharat, Toilets

Environment, Sanitation

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Diarrhoea, that slightly embarrassing infection we avoid talking about when we suffer from it! We often consider diarrhoea as something not very serious, yet in India it has become the second biggest killer of children under age five. Around the world annually more than 500000 children under five lose their lives due to severe dehydration caused by diarrhoea.

Bio-toilets: Sanitation super hero to our rescue

May 15, 2018

Khushboo Shroff

Biotoilet, Sanitation, swacch bharat, Toilets

Sanitation

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The buzzing of the crowd, vendors ringing their bells, calling out their wares. The intoxicating smell of vada pav overpowered by a baser and horribly unpleasant aroma. Human faeces in clumps on the railway track and flies everywhere. I was at Kurla station to greet a friend. That said, I could be at any long distance railway station in India and it would look and smell the same.

Microbial solutions in bioremediation of radioactive waste

Sep 27, 2017

Suraj Kahar

Bioremediation, microbial solutions, Organica Biotech, waste

Bio Solutions, Biotech, Sanitation

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We read about radioactivity and its possible hazards in a previous post. We also learnt about a bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans and its ability to survive high intensity radiation, which is otherwise lethal to all life forms. This article features the applications of the strain in bioremediation of radioactive waste as well as sites.

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