Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
2% of the household batteries in the UK are collected for recycling. Councils involved need to step up their efforts to reach their target which is 25% by 2012 and 45% by 2016.
Pesticide usage worldwide has quadrupled over the last 40 years, from an average of 0.5 Kg per hectare in 1961 To 2kg per hectare in 2004!
The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
If there were no Einsteins and Newtons thinking about atoms and apples we would not have had i-Pods spacecrafts today… It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Here’s your chance to claim fame, achieve glory and tread on the path laid out by the Giants of Science… So switch on your grey cells and start rattling your brains for some smart answers on little questions posed by Mother Nature (and by us too..!) Come, fight the best tech. brains of India and get a chance to be titled as “Godsons” (or “Goddaughters”) of Mother Nature… That’s not all… Walk away with whopping prizes and lots of goodies… All this @ “How things work..?” @ Kriya’09, PSG Tech…
“It’s Survival of ONLY the fittest..!”
Two members per team.
The team members need not be from the same college.
Preliminary written test followed by Finals
The questions will cover Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geography and everything else..!
