{"id":16085,"date":"2020-03-19T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/19\/saving-city-millions-gallons-water-one-tap-at-a-time-india-kolkata"},"modified":"2020-03-19T14:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:00:44","slug":"saving-a-city-millions-of-gallons-of-water-one-tap-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16085","title":{"rendered":"Saving a city millions of gallons of water \u2013 one tap at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A duo in India have been spurred into action to fix pipes to conserve the water supply in Kolkata<\/p>\n<p>There is light drizzle as Vijay Aggarwal and Ajay Mittal manoeuvre their two-wheelers through the labyrinthine alleyways of Kolkata\u2019s Tiljala road slum. Early Sunday morning, the neighbourhood is teeming with activity \u2013 women sit on their haunches washing clothes and utensils; half-soaped children scurry in and out of their baths; towel-clad men wait to brush their teeth. Every 50 metres a community pipe gushes out water \u2013 plastic bottles, jerry cans and metal buckets are lined up to fill.<\/p>\n<p>The duo along with their plumber, Ravi Shaw, who rides pillion, make their way to the first huddle of people and get to work. All it takes is a blow and twist of a wrench \u2013 the nozzle pops loose. Shaw fishes out an orange and white tap from his bag and fits it. While Aggarwal hurriedly plasters a Save Water Save Life sticker on to a lamppost, Mittal tells the people to close the tap once they are done and points out the helpline number on the sticker.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/mar\/19\/saving-city-millions-gallons-water-one-tap-at-a-time-india-kolkata\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A duo in India have been spurred into action to fix pipes to conserve the water supply in KolkataThere is light drizzle as Vijay Aggarwal and Ajay Mittal manoeuvre their two-wheelers through the labyrinthine alleyways of Kolkata\u2019s Tiljala road slum. Ea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59,62,61,827,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-water","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions\/16086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}