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  Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) and B.CLIP Alumni, an association of B.CLIP graduates who have completed the B.PAC Civic Leadership Incubator Program (B.CLIP) hosted the second edition of the BENGALURU WOMAN ACHIEVERS AWARD 2022 which showcased changemakers across the 243 wards of Bengaluru. The women achievers were identified through a direct online nomination and …

Shubha Ramachandran is a winner at the BENGALURU WOMAN ACHIEVERS AWARD 2022 Read More »

The unseasonal rains of 2021 have brought out several seepage issues in underground basements around the city due to ill-conceived modifications in and around these areas. Given the number of lakes in Bengaluru, this issue is especially aggravated on sites that are close to one. The water table is naturally high around a lake. Hence, …

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1.0 Overview and Background Madiwala lake is situated in BTM layout in East Bangalore, and is part of the Koramangala-Chalaghatta valley. It is a part of the Varthur lake series. It is one of the biggest lakes in Bangalore spread over an area of 282 acres and was built by the Cholas in a day. …

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BIOME Trust and BWSSB in collaboration with Citizen Matters is organizing a series of events on water management. The first event focused on Rainwater Harvesting and the second event on Water Demand management. The third in the series, “Well” Connected: Groundwater and wells (Antharjala mattu bhavigala sambanda) was held on 26th February on Zoom platform. …

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 Lalbagh is a 240 acres Botanical garden located in south Bengaluru. The Lalbagh lake (within the park) spreads over about 30 acres and is full of water for most of the year. The groundwater tables have been observed to be high in many parts of the park.  Location of Lalbagh There are 6 open wells …

Rejuvenation of Library Well at Lalbagh Read More »

1.0 Overview and Background Satish Dhawan Park is located in North Bangalore in Tatanagar. The park is named after Padma Vibhushan Prof. Satish Dhawan, Director – IISc, Secretary – Department of Space, Chairman – ISRO.   The park is spread over 2.3 acre.  There are many trees and plants in the park.  The park comes …

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 Biome Environmental Trust was invited to participate in an event organised by BWSSB and KSCST on the 10th Anniversary of Sri.M Visvesvaraya RWH Theme Park.  The event was organised in association with Indian Plumbing Association-Bangalore Chapter, Bangalore Apartments Federation, Bengaluru on 22 March, 2022 A statue of Sri.M Visvesvaraya was inaugurated at the Theme park.  …

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Hey! Here are the cheerful stories from BIOME team meeting which was held at Lalbagh on 16th February 2022. It was the first offline team meeting post two long pandemic years. We had a new team member Neelima, Srinivas who said we had met three times offline and corrected himself to online, Shivanand travelling for …

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Access Livelihoods requested Biome for an enterprise visit for their batch of students from the postgraduate course in Social Entrepreneurship (Transforming India Initiative) to understand the issue of water sustainability, as part of their reflection workshop. The visit was conducted at Cubbon Park on March 10, 2022, and was anchored by Suma Rao of Biome.  …

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Ittina Anai is located in Kempapura, Yemalur, Bellandur. It was constructed in 2006. The apartment spreads in an area of 1 acre and 13 guntas; it has four blocks with 72 flats and about 168 residents. Ittina Anai does not have a BWSSB Cauvery water connection. The apartment is not planning to get the Cauvery …

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