Presentations that were made ACWADAM – Groundwater in India BIOME – Groundwater in Bengaluru BIOME: Aquifer Mapping outputs/outcomes and process ACWADAM – Aquifer Interpretation BIOME – 3 stories Press coverages The Hindu Business Line – Ground water mapping for Bengaluru recommended The Times of India – This well-digger ensures city doesn’t go dry The New …
27th June Saturday: My Well Our Water 9:30 – 10:00 : Registrations/Tea 10:00 – 1:30 : Workshop 1:30 onwards lunch Time Description Presenter 10:00 – 10:10 Introductions and Objective setting WIPRO 10:10 – 10:20 Larger Context – Groundwater in Urban India ACWADAM 10:20 – 10:35 Bangalore Context BIOME 10:35 – 10:45 Q&A Vishwanath – …
My well, our water Participatory Urban Aquifer Mapping: Enabling citizens to be scientists, managers and stewards of groundwater India is rapidly urbanizing. The number of people living in urban India is expected to grow to around 800 million by 2050. Urban India is grappling with multiple water management challenges. The dependence on groundwater of urban …
My Well Our Water : 27th June Workshop : Introductory Note Read More »
An informative blogpost from Sushant Potdar – an intern with BIOME Environmental Trust . Reproduced from https://sushantpotdar55.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/obtaining-a-topographic-sheet/ Topographic sheets provide valuable data about the area that is being studied. It is one sheet which provides enormous data from natural features to man made structures of that particular area. The topographic sheets find their uses in …
How to a get Topographical sheet from the Survey Of India Read More »
There is something unique to the Jakkur lake ecosystem; lake filled with water, a sewage treatment plant (STP) near the lake site which disposes the treated water into the lake helping in maintaining the water balance, a constructed wetland, numerous open wells, fishermen and farming community using the lake for fishing, irrigation, and other domestic …
WIPRO, a corporate group, has been engaging in many water sustainable practices over a period now. The team at WIPRO also supports the aquifer mapping and lakes bio-remediation projects in Bengaluru. Wipro employees staying in the area falling under Sarjapur-Bellandur watershed have been helpful in providing information about their borewells also. As part of the …
World water day at WIPRO Sarjapur Campus, 25th March 2015 Read More »
Is there any other better way to celebrate world water day than at Rainbow Drive layout in Bengaluru? Rainbow Drive has been a pioneer in many good practices towards water sustainability and this was one such occasion which provided an opportunity to celebrate that spirit of working towards water self-sufficiency. The citizen participation in the …
World water day at Rainbow Drive layout, 22nd March, 2015 Read More »
At the time when gap between theory and practice seems to widen, if focused efforts are put together by creating a space for interaction between citizens and the government an effective outcome is never far. With this in mind, a citizen dialogue was arranged with KSPCB chairman and officials from KSPCB on a concerted issue …
Citizen dialogue with Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), 20th March, 2015 Read More »
On the day of 21st of February, Saturday sharp at 10 o’clock morning, the lake conscious team gathered at Cubbon Park with an agenda of more familiarity with Cubbon park Sewage Treatment Plant. The purpose is to evaluate the technology for its viability for sourcing treated sewage water to the lake rejuvenation. In a gist …
An automatic weather station (AWS) was installed on 28th February in Rainbow Drive. The install was a part of the Aquifer Mapping Project and attempts to monitor weather related and specifically rainfall data at a very localized level. The installation was done by Yuktix (a start up based in Bangalore). The system has two main …