A corporate office in the heart of the city got flooded in the last years rain. So much so that we could still see the water seeping in during our visit in (End of) December. The Office had basement seepage apparently since the time of construction and water had to be dewatered continuously to construct …
Withdrawal well to the rescue from basement seepage Read More »
Authored by Shreyas Sati and Alana Helin as part of the BIOME Trust Wetlands & Lakes Project Summary Jakkur Lake is on approximately 160 acres and is located in the northern part of Bangalore to the right of NH44 near Yelahanka. The lake falls within Hebbal Valley as part of the Yellamallappa Chetty lake series …
As a part of the project STP Wetlands and Lakes, Alana and I have been trying to collect the water quality data for some of the lakes in Bangalore. There are numerous lakes in Bangalore each of which falls under the jurisdiction of one of the following government bodies: BBMP, BDA, KLCDA, KFD and MI. …
Bright and somewhat early on Thursday morning I arrived at Kaikondrahalli Lake where Shubha was to give a presentation to students from the University of Washington – Seattle (USA). Shubha and I, along with another Biome Trust volunteer, met approximately twenty students plus their five advisors – two from the US and three from Bangalore …
Talking About Water With University of Washington Students Read More »
Umthli Secondary School in Meghalaya was one of the schools where BIOME helped implement Rainwater Harvesting along with several other groups. The implementation team also gifted the school a football as the students were very interested in football as well as very good at it. They were short of a football too. Today, the sports …
The girls of Umthli school in Meghalaya win a Basketball match Read More »
Our preferred imagination of an urban lake is mostly blue water with a well maintained walking track all along, some trees on the periphery and some birds on them too. That imagination is of course broken when the lake stinks, froths, has plastic strewn around. That imagination is ALSO broken when we see overgrown typha …
A LAKE as a WETLAND or a WATER BODY : Re-imagining a lake as GREEN Read More »
Ravi and Shankar are well cleaners and well diggers. One of the wells that Shankar and Ravi are cleaning in Mathikere, Bangalore is 30ft deep and 3.5ft in diameter. Has water at 8ft below ground level. That means the well has a standing 22ft column of water. This translates to an availability of 4000 litres …
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A map of the 6 rivers arising from the Nandi Hills Read More »
Authored by Shreyas Sati and Alana Helin as part of the BIOME Trust Wetlands & Lakes Project Summary Rachenahalli Lake is on approximately 104 acres and is located in the north of Bangalore near the Embassy Manyata Business Park. The lake lies within the Yellamallappa Chetty Lake series within the Hebbal Valley. It is frequented …
Authored by Shreyas Sati and Alana Helin as part of the BIOME Trust Wetlands & Lakes Project Summary Ulsoor Lake is on 125 acres and is located very close to the central part of Bangalore by Kensington Road, Annaswamy Mudaliar Road, and Bhaskaran Road in Ulsoor, Bangalore. It is frequented by many local residents who …