{"id":40304,"date":"2021-08-15T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40304"},"modified":"2021-08-15T23:03:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T23:03:01","slug":"the-zero-power-sewage-plant-inspired-by-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=40304","title":{"rendered":"The zero-power sewage plant inspired by cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Untreated sewage leads to poor sanitation and disease around the world. Its effects are felt strongly in India, and Bangalore resident Tharun Kumar turned to cows for a solution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">With help from the Biomimicry Institute, he has designed and built 50 sustainable sewage plants that work in a similar way to a cow\u2019s stomach. The system has no moving parts, so doesn&#8217;t require any power or people to operate it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Voice: Patrick Aryee<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Digital producer: Jennifer Green<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Animator: Jules Bartl<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">With thanks to Tharun Kumar, ECOSTP and Dr Dai Grove-White, University of Liverpool<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For more on this story, listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w13xttw7\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">30 Animals That Made Us Smarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-58017501\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untreated sewage leads to poor sanitation and disease around the world. Its effects are felt strongly in India, and Bangalore resident Tharun Kumar turned to cows for a solution. With help from the Biomimicry Institute, he has designed and built 50 sustainable sewage plants that work in a similar way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/119651093_p09qsb28.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}