Come rains and the pavements are perpetually rife with running water. To my deepest embarrassment, I’ve slipped more than once under such circumstances. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if water were not to remain on the surface and just...

Pavements, sidewalks, parking lots, and driveways that constitute around 50 percent of an urban layout, does not allow rainwater to sip into them to let it back to the ground, hence also contributing to lowering the natural water-table in the...