Rainbow Drive, a layout on Sarjapura Road spread over 34 acres now has 320+ recharge wells of varying sizes (the highest density of recharge wells in Bangalore – capable of recharging a minimum of 1.3ML of water per rainfall event). Continuous and intensive ground water recharge has resulted in the shallowest borewell of 250ft yielding …
Seeing is Believing : BIOME organizes a trip to Rainbow Drive Read More »
A very simply and succinctly written article by Vishwanath Srikantaiah on how Bangalore used to get its water, the current state of water management and what would be a wiser way to manage water in the future The full article is here So What If Pipelines dont give Water. Skies do xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển …
In the DNA: “Bangalore and Its Water” by Vishwanath Read More »
BIOME Trust put in significant effort into conceptualising and putting together the resources for this year’s Water themed Earthian Programme. All the Booklets and Videos that were put together as resources are here . We are glad to share words of acknowledgement from the Earthian community ———————————————————————————————————————- Dear Shubha, Vishwanath, Wanted to share a quick note of …
Muniyappa (in white), a well digger known to BIOME for very many years now buys his own TATA SUMO. He says it makes it easier for his team of well diggers to get to work alongwith their tools – on time. Despite the larger vehicle it is a tight fit for the entire team to …
Rashtriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (RVCE) spread over 52.5 acres is located in the Bangalore Mysore road (between Jnanabharathi and Kengeri). There are seven borewells and one open well in the campus area. Due to continuous pumping of the borewells (to the tune of 7-8 hours a day), there is a significant risk of over …
Rainwater harvesting is becoming an essential tool for citizens of Bangalore. It is not only a piece of theory now, but has been practically implemented. With studies revealing that Bangalore’s lakes are mostly now sewage lakes and majority of them has just depleted has raised the concern for water to a higher extent. Biome as …
A spatial map created by Ashwin (an intern who worked with us for 2 months) that plots the fluoride levels in ground water (a source of drinking water) in 280 villages in the Mulbagal Taluk. Ashwin personally tested water from each of these sources for monitoring Fluoride levels. It is interesting to see how the …
Commercial polyhouses are typically large and require a fair bit of water for watering the plants even in the rainy season as the rain cannot directly fall on the plants. Even a 30mm rain on a polyhouse of 1 acre (about 4000sqm) can result in a runoff of 108,000 litres (this is equivalent to the …
A design of a rainwater filter, especially for higher rainfall intensities and larger catchments is always very tricky. Do you design for better quality filtration, easy maintainability or maximum capture of the rainfall endowment ? Of course – in an ideal world – all of the above and some more 🙂 The products that are …
Another innovation from Mr Reddy : A modified strainer Read More »
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