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In northwest Delhi, the informal settlement of Shahbad Dairy is home to tens of thousands of people. Clotheslines stretch across the makeshift neighborhood, homes connect via winding footpaths, and workers at small food stands offer cold drinks on street corners.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Shahbad-Dairy-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nResidents of Shahbad Dairy, an informal settlement near Delhi, collect water from a tanker truck\u00a0to carry to their homes.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nOn a sunny morning in July, a woman in her 60s, Savithri Sharma, climbed carefully up a ladder to the flat, tin roof of her one-story home. She picked up a paint roller and a bucket of paint, and in just a few minutes, covered a patch of the roof with a white, reflective coating. On the street, her grandchildren raced around trying to catch a peek at what she was doing.<\/p>\n
Sharma is a vegetable seller who works all day outdoors and returns home by 11:00 p.m. each night. Recently, she connected with the Delhi-based organization SEEDS, which has worked for more than thirty years in disaster management.\u00a0Sharma purchased a painting kit from them that included \u201cbrushes, a bonding agent, lime powder, and sandpaper.\u201d<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Savithri-Sharma-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nWhile her grandchildren watch, Savithri Sharma prepares to cover the roof of her home in Shahbad Dairy in limewash paint.Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nHoping to cool her home, Sharma followed the lead of friends and neighbors who painted their roofs white. \u201cI saw them all around me. And I heard about them from this person and that person,\u201d she said. Soon, she decided to try it too.<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Sharmas-roof-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nSharma\u2019s roof (left) is covered in limewash paint that can lower indoor temperatures.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nA few Indian organizations currently use industrial, white reflective paint to reflect the sun\u2019s rays away from homes in informal settlements. But SEEDS wanted a nature-based solution that wouldn\u2019t add chemicals to the water supply. Also, it had to be affordable and accessible. Initial experiments, however, proved costly. SEEDS co-founder Manu Gupta recounts one homeowner confronting him about the price. \u201cThe owner said, \u2018If you\u2019re spending so much, why don\u2019t you buy me an air conditioner?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Taking the feedback to heart, SEEDS kept testing ways to make their solutions more affordable. Among their experiments, they tried paint made from cow dung and insulation made of wool. The organization finally landed on limewash paint, made from crushed limestone, water and natural minerals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Manu-Gupta-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nManu Gupta, co-founder of SEEDS.Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nGupta estimated that it costs a bit more than $10 to cover a single roof. \u201cEven if one rain washes them off,\u201d he said, \u201c[the family] could still do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s exactly what some residents have been doing.<\/p>\n
Meena Devi lives in a small home in Shahbad Dairy with her family and a dog named Cherry. She explained that she put three light coats of paint on her roof, per SEEDS\u2019 instructions. But soon, \u201cthe rains came and washed it away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0Her family painted the roof again. \u201cWe feel cooler now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
SEEDS has found that limewash paint can lower indoor temperatures by 6-7 degrees Celsius. And according to their founder, Manu Gupta, they are \u201cseeing very clear impacts on health, better sleep at night.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even though paint is an easily accessible and affordable option, climate solutions are rarely straightforward. Some experts say white paint isn\u2019t practical in dusty cities like Delhi, where roofs don\u2019t stay white for long. And although reflective roofs can bounce sunlight away from the occupants underneath them, that sometimes means neighbors living higher up catch the glare.<\/p>\n
Another concern is humidity \u2013 it\u2019s hard for humid air to escape from the small, cramped homes in these informal settlements. Gupta said that this year they are working to create better ventilation in the homes, including by adding chimneys to expel humid air outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SEEDS projects that if two million low-income households paint their roofs with lime wash, Delhi\u2019s heat islands could become cooler on the whole \u2013 by an entire degree Celsius.<\/p>\n
So far, 1,400 roofs have been painted. It\u2019s a start, but they hope an affordable, accessible solution will take on a life of its own and spread across millions of informal settlements in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SEEDS is now enlisting local young people as ambassadors for their heat mitigation efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eighteen-year-old Sapna Kishoor helped lead a \u2018street shading\u2019 project that transformed old fabric into canopies. Kids now spend hours playing in the shade they provide.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked for scarves from others,\u201d she said, \u201cand hung them up. It feels really good to do this work.\u201d<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Sapna-Kishoor-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nSapna Kishoor shows a photo of the street shading project she helped lead.Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nWomen Entrepreneurs in Chennai<\/strong><\/h2>\n\nIn a working-class neighborhood in Chennai, along India\u2019s southeast coast, eight women sat together on the floor in a brightly painted room. One woman, Vanita, grabbed a pair of scissors and a roll of plastic packaging material \u2013 the kind used to make bags of chips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Companies often discard this material when they find small cosmetic errors. For the women, however, the errors are irrelevant; the other side, made of shiny aluminum, is the side that matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cut it into four-foot strips,\u201d Vanita explained.<\/p>\n
They take these aluminum strips and melt them together using an iron. Soon, what used to be a pile of little metallic strips becomes a 4-foot-by-3-foot sheet.<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Chennai-women-construct-insulating-roof-panels-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nIn Chennai, local women construct insulating roof panels from discarded packaging material.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been given a target of making 300 sheets total,\u201d Vanita said. \u201cWe average about 50 per day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
These sheets will eventually be stuffed with organic materials, like forest grasses, and turned into reflective tiles that line the ceilings of people\u2019s homes. These shiny surfaces have proven effective at trapping the sun\u2019s rays and keeping homes cool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
cBalance, the organization that designed these tiles, aims to create durable, reliable cooling solutions. \u201cOne of our core ethical principles is that we treat people in these informal settlements just like we would treat a middle-class client who comes to us with a design problem,\u201d said cBalance founder Vivek Gilani.<\/p>\n
Their other goal is to hire and train local women to work on these cool roof designs. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to harness the immense economic potential that has been demonstrated: the women\u2019s productive economy in the informal settlements,\u201d Gilani said.<\/p>\n
Most of these women on their team have never worked outside the home. After receiving training on how cBalance\u2019s cool roof products work, many of the women were excited to become entrepreneurs \u2013 and to earn wages for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Chennai-Vanita-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nVanita, who helps to construct cool roof panels, says she can now afford to buy a dress or something for her children.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\u201cNow, I can buy a dress, recharge my phone or buy something for my children,\u201d Vanita said.<\/p>\n
Another worker, Arul Marie, said it has been nice to spend time with the other women while their children are at school. \u201cWe listen to music, take short breaks to eat snacks and drink tea, and talk about our lives. We feel free.\u201d<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Arul-Marie-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nArul Marie irons a piece of plastic packaging material to form a liner for a roof panel.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThe women marketed the cool roof designs to their friends and neighbors and are now conducting maintenance checks to ensure the products are working as advertised. During one visit, Vanita met with a woman, Velankanni, who purchased the indoor tiles. They\u2019ve made a big difference in her daily life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore we installed this solution,\u201d Velankanni said, \u201cI would sit outside for most of the day and only came inside around 4 or 5 p.m.\u201d Now, she can come inside and rest, even during the hottest times of the day.<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Velankanni-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nVelankanni (right) tells visitors from the panel workshop that her new roof lining makes it possible for her to work inside throughout the day.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nOther designs have been less popular, such as a movable roof design that extends over<\/em> the roof. In theory, a plastic sheet unfurls over the roof during the day, like a curtain, and then closes back up, like an accordion, at night. cBalance believes this will result in cooler indoor temperatures at night, specifically.<\/p>\nOne woman, Kalai, bought the movable roof and said sometimes it\u2019s tricky to operate. \u201cDuring rainy days,\u201d she said, \u201cit can be a bit hard to shut.\u201d The sheet gets weighed down with rain or leaves.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-Moveable-roof-designs-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nMoveable roof designs offer better cooling at night, but can be difficult to operate in monsoon rains.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\ncBalance plans to tackle these kinds of problems soon. They recently won a grant to help with research and development, and Vivek Gilani said they\u2019re also partnering with a college to access testing machines. These will put different cool roof designs through more rigorous trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThrowing rain on it through spray machines, [or] having wind blown on it to see what parts come off, and at what speeds,\u201d Gilani said.<\/p>\n
It could take a few years for cBalance to refine these designs, but ideally, there will be a payoff: durable, affordable heat solutions for marginalized communities.<\/p>\n\nView Image: 2026-08-28-India-heat-shade-canopies-1024×683.jpg<\/span><\/button><\/p>\nWomen sew together old fabric to make shade canopies.\u00a0Justin Nisly\/The World<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMeanwhile, the women making the tiles are thinking about ways they could manufacture the parts themselves to save on costs. It may not happen right away, but they have ideas they\u2019re excited to test and implement.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the kind of energy that Vishwas Chitale, an expert on climate adaptation at the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water, said should be harnessed. He believes Indians should be asking questions like: \u201cWhat is the local talent \u2014 where local entrepreneurs can get a chance to establish some of these solutions and be proud?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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