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Research Gate Sc(a)ore

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  I have not made any special effort to be active in social media and I stay off of facebook as I am not interested to know if people are watching a movie or making a new dish. But then again, I am nowadays hooked on to Research Gate, particularly Research Gate score. Research Gate (RG), supposed to be a social networking site for scientists to share their research papers, instead started giving me nightmares. Day in and day out, in my laptop, in my desktop, in my mobile (and son’s mobile too), I started checking my RG score as people believe that RG score is a good measure of your research activities. The score includes the research outcomes that we share on the research platform and our interactions with other RG members. Honestly, I have little time to interact with other RG members and if interaction is the best measure of your research's impact, then I will not see even a trivial improvement in my score unless I answer the Q& A section. I also see RG scores of e...

Wise Water Management

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  WISE WATER MANAGEMENT “We've reached a point in water management where if it's not water reuse, it's water abuse.”                                                                                -  Don Beard Grey water, accounting for approximately 50% of our household water, can be treated effectively, economically and efficiently for further reuse in plethora of applications. Greywater is domestic wastewater generated from kitchen sinks, wash basins and during washing of laundry.  Greywater is a resourceful commodity and its reclamation is considered as a sustainable solution for m...