Elegant Quote by Rohini Nilekani Download Open image “India is criss-crossed with the most elegant wells that tap into the shallow aquifer.” — Rohini Nilekani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elegant India Most Shallow Tap
I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer. — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
India is a groundwater civilization. Almost all Indians use groundwater, directly or indirectly, each day. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Depending on which of the many hydrogeological zones of India you tap into, the water can either be easy to reach or incredibly difficult… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
We know under Nebraska there is an underground aquifer that is probably underneath the whole state, but what form does it take? I kind… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood. — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has… — Sukanta Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There have been over a million wells hydraulically fractured in the history of the industry, and there is not one, not one, reported case… — Rex W. Tillerson Copy Share Image
The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Addressing governance issues are important because whichever silo you work in, be it education, microfinance, sanitation, food or health, you would eventually hit governance… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
What role can such philanthropy play in a society like ours? For one, philanthropic capital can go where markets will not go and where… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how to give,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth its while,… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes. — Adele Copy Share Image
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Not taking yourself seriously is one of the most elegant things in the world. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching… — Thomas Dubay Copy Share Image
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should… — John Venn Copy Share Image
In mathematics, if I find a new approach to a problem, another mathematician might claim that he has a better, more elegant solution. In… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image