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Why Wastewater & Rainwater Harvesting Needed in Kolkata?

Rainwater & wastewater harvesting is a sustainable way of water conservation and reducing the groundwater usage In Kolkata, many residential projects are going on and many have been completed. As the number of people living in Kolkata is growing day by day, the requirements of water is also reaching the sky, especially in the areas with residential complexes. And most of the water in those residential areas comes from the ground by pumping the water out. The problem is, the amount of water we are sucking from the ground of that area is much higher than the amount of water going down into the ground as most of the used water is drained to another place. Rainwater is also drained to another place before entering into the deep soil. As a result, the groundwater level is dropping rapidly, causing the rise of arsenic level in the water. To reduce the groundwater usage, rain & wastewater harvesting is a very good solution. Most of the rainwater & wastewater goes th

Psychometric testing: What it is about?

Are you aware of psychometric testing ? If not you need to know that it is a personality test which is used to let a person respond to ambiguous stimuli. It is mainly carried out to reveal the hidden emotions and internal conflicts projected by the person into the test. In case of the “objective test” or “self-report test” the responses are analyzed according to a presumed universal standard. For example, a multiple choice exam, and are limited to the content of the test. As against this in case of the psychometric tests, the responses to projective tests are content analyzed for meaning rather than being based on presuppositions about meaning, as is the case with objective tests. According to the psychologists in Kolkata , The projective tests originated from psychoanalytic psychology . Here it is believed that humans have conscious and unconscious attitudes and motivations that are beyond or hidden from conscious awareness. It is an indirect method-where in the person un