Though water is still often collected from taps in many places, as an estimated 1600 people die daily across the country from contaminated water supplies, the market for purified bottled water is growing. Water jugs waiting to be filled, photo by: McKay Savage.

Solar-powered rickshaw photo: Cleantech

We agree with Donald Chong when he says Small Fridges Make Good Cities. Indian designer Nilay Shah and taken it to the next step, perhaps designing a kitchen for Vanessa Farquharson in mind and eliminating the refrigerator altogether.

The type of water conditions these programs are attempting to address, photo: McKay Savage.

Image:Construction workers work on the site of the residential complex of the Commonwealth Village being constructed by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) in partnership with private builder Emaar MGF (Getty)

photo: Nivedita Kashyap

Image: Gandhi with spinning wheel (Margaret Bourke-White, LIFE)

’Ma, did you know the towers routing this call are now powered by biofuels?’ Photo: Eirik Newth

Photo: Women make up a majority of the menial labour force in the mining industry (CSE)