3 Day Water Sustainability program for students of BHOOMI College

Q and A with Mr Vishwanath

BIOME Trust organized a 3 day Workshop on "Water and Sustainability" from 27th Jan to 29th Jan 2016 for the Students of the Bhoomi College

The schedule was made up of classroom lectures and site visits to Rainbow Drive, Halanayakanahalli village, Jakkur Lake and Mr Vishwanath's home in Vidyaranyapura. The detailed program is here

Classroom

Other than Bangalore, some of the participants were from France, Orissa, Indore, Chennai and certain other parts of the country which made for very interactive sessions and interesting exchange of information

Phytorid STP at Rainbow Drive

Q and A with Mr. KP Singh

Water ATM at Halnayakanahalli

5p per liter. Water ATM at Halanayakanahalli

Article by Aditi on our PAQM program

http://www.urb.im/ca1602bge

Sewage Flow Measurements at Sowl Kere on 6th Aug 2015

The following flows in KL/hour were observed between 11:30am and 1:00pm on 6th Aug 2015 at Sowl Kere

Flow 1 : From WIPRO Side (not from WIPRO) : 101-135
Flow 2 : From Kanti Sweets side : 96-128
Flow 3: From KKHalli: 167-223
Flow 4: From Adarsh Lakefront apt – under construction : 23-30

Detailed Data and Calculations available here.
Uniform velocity across the Cross Section has been considered. Some basic calc. has been done to get a sense of order of magnitude The calculations will need to be reworked
Pictures here

Preethi - Many practical learnings. Is a good exercise for students to repeat for all lakes

Many thanks to Dr Kulkarni, Anita, John and Shankar . We've asked John and Shankar (security at Kere) to repeat some of these measurements at different times during the day.

Small fixes to the RWH system at Renuka School

Joint come apart

Leakage

RWH had been implemented in the Renuka School beside Kaikondrahalli lake by the participants of the NDTV Godrej Green champion Show. The system required small repair work to get it funtional. Kunal from our team with timely help from Lokesh the plumber was able to quickly fix this system and bring it back to action

Reclamped

Fixing

BIOME Trust at the Kaikondrahalli Kere Habba on 9th Jan 2016

Avinash introduces the Lake Groups

Dr Annapurna from the Jakkur group presents the story of Jakkur Lake

Ram Prasad from Friends of lakes explains how all the lakes are finally connected to the Dakshina Pinakini

BIOME setup a stall at the Kaikondrahalli Kere Habba to highlight good water management practices followed by communities . BIOME also  helped organize a "Community Connect" event to get citizen groups to come together and share their experiences on Lake rejuvenation. The lakes represented were Jakkur Lake - Jala Poshan group by Dr Annapurna Kamath, Varthur Lake by Elan, Devarabeesanahalli Lake by Shalini, Halanayakanahalli Lake by the Panchayat Development Officer Mr Ramesh. Ram Prasad from Friends of Lakes as well as Jala Mitra spoke on how all the lakes on the Eastern part of Bangalore connect to the Dakshina Pinakini river which eventually flows to the Bay Of Bengal. Avinash from BIOME helped thread this event together

BIOME stall that carries messaging on Water Management

Paper presentations by Biome at the 8th INSEE Biennial Conference

Biome Trust presented two papers at the 8th Biennial Conference on 'Urbanization and Environment' organized by the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE). One paper was on the ongoing aquifer mapping project in Southeast Bengaluru.

The paper is here, and the presentation here. 

Sowmya Philip, an intern with the water team also presented a paper on two communities that have been managing their water well. Her presentation is here

Biome Trust founder Mr S Vishwanath was a resource person for the field trip to Jakkur Lake and participated in one of the Round Table discussions.

The conference report ny INSEE is here.

Aditi Hastak presents at the INSEE Conference

Sowmya Philip presents at the INSEE Conference

New Guidelines/Criteria for evaluation of proposals/requests for ground water abstraction (With effect from 16.11.2015)

Conditions for NOC for construction of ground water abstraction structures/ replacement of existing defunct well for individual HH in notified areas: 

• Permission to be granted for  only for such cases where public water supply system does not exist. The permission shall be valid only till such time there is no public water supply provided. In that case, the abstraction structure shall be exclusively utilized for artificial recharge to ground water or sealed
• The premises should have only one ground water abstraction structure (either existing or new) to meet the drinking and domestic requirements. No tube-well/bore-well will be constructed, if any working tube-well already exists. In case the existing well has become non-functional and is to be replaced, it should be converted into recharge well, if possible or, properly sealed and no water be pumped from it.
• The maximum diameter of the tube-well should be restricted to 4P ״ P only and the capacity of the pump should not exceed 1HP. In case of deep water level the capacity/dia of the structure will be decided by the Authority based on the site specific recommendations
• Concurrent with the construction of ground water abstraction structure, the owner of the tube-well shall undertake artificial recharge to ground water through rainwater harvesting in the premises
• Borewell log mandatory

The complete document is here : http://www.cgwb.gov.in/CGWA/Documents/Revised%20guidelines_12112015.pdf