Rainwater Harvesting - Preaching without practicing ?

Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 11-JUN-2009

Some observations/solutions for making RWH compulsory.

Men in authority are more interested in preaching than practicing.

There are huge government buildings and lands/waste lands in urban/rural areas - still there is no semblance of utilizing such golden areas for creating rain water harvesting facilities by those in occupation of such lands.

The Bellandur Lake Photo Stream

psaram42 - 31-MAY-2009

 Bellandur Lake is a lake on the shores of which Bellandur village is situated.

The changing face of Bengalooru lakes over a 9 year period - a study

psaram42 - 16-MAY-2009

 The latest version of Google earth has introduced a new feature of viewing the earth at different periods of time, starting with the year 2000. This allows us to see the changes on any part of the earth over a given period of time starting with the year 2000. I had listed in my earlier blog entry about 48 lakes as on May 15, 2009.

Importance of Lakes in and around Bengalooru for drinking water needs of the city

psaram42 - 14-MAY-2009

 The city of Bengalooru had plenty of lakes earlier. Unfortunately due to lack of concern and unabashed greed, a lot of them are extinct now. Lakes are a very important aspect in the over all water management for a city like Bengalooru. (Some rivers were flowing through the city of Bangalore, I believe).

Ground water scarcity

chetana kolli - 10-MAR-2009

According to officials from Department of Mines and Geology, the groundwater situation is in a critical condition in Bangalore. The situation has worsened in the last three years. The average annual rainfall in the district is only 600 mm to 700 mm per year. Because of the drought in 2001, 2002 and 2003, groundwater recharge has been very low!! ******This is alarming*******.

I wonder why our government or our educated bangaloreans want to do nothing about it. Yes the government probably has a rule that Rain water harvesting(RWH) facility is compulsory in apartments and so on.... but who is monitoring it????  The apartment I live in does not implement RWH... Its a shame that the governing body is unable to enforce this..

Taking Rain Water Harvesting more seriously

mcadambi - 22-NOV-2008

It is good that the BWSSB has finally realised that only about 50% of it's current water supply is metered and billed for. It is equally good to note that it has come down heavily on IBC Knowledge Park (the building hosting Accenture et al) on Bannerghatta Road for water theft.

BWSSB's plans

tsubba - 18-JUN-2008

Finally, a plan/proposal/idea that shows some clear out of the box thinking and goes beyond the currently fashionable gospels of maintenance, sustenance and development models. In rediscovering the original purpose of many of these man-made lakes of bangalore - as a source of potable water - bwssb might have hit upon a truely sustainable 'novel' idea to save our lakes.

Rainwater Harvesting Success in BEL, Bangalore

mcadambi - 6-MAR-2008

There has been a success story w.r.t Rain Water Harvesting. One only hopes this serves as a model for all others to follow:

 http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb52008/environmet2008020550499.asp