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Editor's Page
Few people enjoy chatting casually about the bathroom, let alone about toilets. But since bathrooms are responsible for as much as 40% of the water consumed inside most households, and since water is becoming an increasingly precious resource, it’s time to take this small space very seriously. Governments world over have recommended an outer limit for the quantity of water to be consumed per flush. The high efficiency toilets are designed to bring this quantity further down. Climatologists warn that if we do not start conserving water, a day will come when we would have no water to flush down. Apart from formulating an effective business model by the government to control supply time and cost of water, what can also help is giving energy efficient tax credit to water saving sanitary systems. This issue lists down some of the systems and fixtures that can help save water.
Architect Himanshu Burte’s series on sustainable building practices adopted by different Indian architects has been receiving warm response from the readers. He focuses this time on the practices of Bangalore based Architect Chitra Vishwanath, who experimented with mud way back in 1995. To her, the simple, inexpensive and locally available mud is a means towards the end of building sustainably. Elsewhere in this issue, we also have the making of a mud house in Kerala.
In a way, many of the routes architects are taking today to make a comfortable cost effective dwelling are drawn from traditional practices. Buildotech will look at, through a series of articles, how traditional building materials and practices can be used effectively today.
As said earlier, we enjoy receiving suggestions and ideas for editorial coverage. While a few readers want more technical articles, some others want more design oriented features. We are sure, we have a right mix..
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