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A Cute visual to describe the Groundwater Mapping programme Read More »

One of the main issues confronting lakes in Bangalore is to do with the water inflow – both in terms of quality and quantity (current as well as anticipated in the future). While the main channels bring rainwater to these lakes they also carry with them significant amounts of solid waste and sewage. Over a …

Framework for Identifying Lakes and Solutions for Rejuvenation Read More »

Several of the lakes in Bangalore face a common problem of inflow of sewage from neighboring communities into the lake. Though violating a law shying away from the ground reality wouldn’t solve the problem in any way. Hence, a group of people which included citizens, developers, organizations from the Sarjapur/bellandur region of Bangalore, embarked on …

Wastewater treatment using Soil Biotechnology at Herohalli Lake Read More »

BIOME, WIPRO, MAPSAS and other lakes communities have come together to try and understand how bio-remediation technologies can be applied to deal with the sewage inflow into some of the rejuvenated/to be rejuvenated lakes around Sarjapura Road. Hence on 25th November the first meeting was arranged to discuss bioremediation methods, to bring together the community …

Lake Bio-remediation meeting Read More »

Vivek Khanna at Kasavanahalli kere Rainwater Harvesting was implemented in Vivek Khanna’s residence in Shubh Enclave in early 2009.  The system comprised storage of rooftop rainwater in a large 15,000 liter sump as well as 2 recharge wells of 5ft diameter and 30ft depth.  A chance encounter with Vivek Khanna at Kasavanahalli lake today revealed …

RWH in Vivek Khanna’s home, Shubh Enclave, Haralur Road Read More »

Since April 2014, Biome has been working on a multidisciplinary research initiative funded by the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) lead by an international partnership of organizations that includes the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (STPHI) and Sandec (Department of Water and Sanitation in …

Biome attends the WEDC International Conference to present research from the Resource Recovery and Reuse Project Read More »

Yesterday (Nov 9, 2014), ACWADAM and Biome performed a pump test on one of the yielding borewells in SJR Verity which is located in Kasavanahalli road. This borewell is generally switched on for a period of 3 hours and switched off for 3 hours and then again the cycle restarts. We started the test at …

Borewell pump test at SJR Verity Read More »

Google Maps with Inlets The meeting started at 8:15am sharp –  unusually early for a Saturday morning. A group of  8 enthused people who live around the Junasandra lake were looking for help/advice on how they could go about rejuvenating the lake. Some homework had been done diligently –  inlets marked, lake marked on Google …

Junasandra and Devarabisanahalli lake teams: Working out solutions Read More »

Reed Bed Rainbow Drive on Sarjapura Road with its 320+ recharge (with 400+ plots on 36 acres) wells is pretty much the oasis on Sarjapura Road where the borewells on their campus are able to yield sufficient water to fulfill their water demand. In addition to this they felt a need to recycle their waste …

Phytorid at Rainbow Drive, Sarjapura Road Read More »

All of us Facebook users were swept away by the ice bucket challenge created for raising money to patients being treated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) disease. Of all the positive and negative statements about the challenge, one activity has stood out. Matt Damon, (an Actor and founder of water.org) reusing toilet water (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlGhuud-s4w ) …

Toilet to Tap: A reality in Bangalore Read More »