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Urban Water conservation using simple technology do-it-yourself - 13-MAY-2010
We are running awareness and participatory campaigns for Urban water conservation using simple technological solutions. We invite RWA's, Apartment Owners Associations, Corporates to mail us at water.misers@gmail.com for further details. EVERY DROP COUNTS. BUT, DO WE CARE ENOUGH ? |
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RWH compliance in BBMP ward # 58 psaram42 - 2-MAY-2010
Smt Sumitra Vijaykumar is our corporater for Ward # 58. The newly formed ward # 58 has the old ward 74 area including 9th main HAL III stage, where our house # 1669 is situated. Smt Sumitra is proactively working for the designated ward. She has organized a regular monthly meeting with the ward residents to take forward the well being of the ward as a whole. Mr. Vijay Kumar the corporater’s husband kindly accepted my request for a discussion on compliance of RWH by residents in ward 58. I found Sri Vijaykumar genuinely receptive to problems faced by us residents. I apprised Mr. Vijaykumar of what I have implemented at my house towards using the entire rainfall received at my 60x40 site for ground water charging, using a pre existing well. He inspected my premises in detail along with his gang. All were appraised in detail of what was done at my place. My actual agenda was in fact extending the RWH clause to BBMP. Mr. Vijaykumar was quick to see my point. Here is what I tried to explain:- |
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Wastewater management, recycle, reuse nanosciences@hotmail.com - 27-APR-2010
Most of the survived lakes in and around bangalore are drying up and some of them are fed with sewage..it is high time they are saved. treat the sewage before discharging into lakes... latest technologies are inplace... it is only that one has to open upto modern and innovative technologies check them on merits and implement them with seriousness... water hyacinth weed is another big problem to be addressed |
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Bangalore Water Index - Project Proposal to the BWSSB Neha_Dar - 26-APR-2010
Folks, Attached here is the project proposal we plan to go to the BWSSB with. Most of it is similar to Pranav's ppt, with a couple of edits - thanks for taking the lead on this, Pranav! Have a look, and let us know what you think. Also - the parameters are not part of the presentation. That list will be enclosed separately. Cheers, Neha |
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"Water and a City" - discussions following the screening murali772 - 26-APR-2010
The movie brought out the scenario fairly well, but which most on Praja are quite aware of. |
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Meeting with Prof. Mohan Kumar deepakar - 24-APR-2010
Prof. Mohan Kumar, http://cistup.iisc.ernet.in/files/mohankumar.pdf, Civil Engineering Dept., IISc Participants: Shekhar Mittal, Deepak Rajanna, Manjari Vishnoi The agenda of this meeting was to share the vision and approach of the Praja Water Index project with Prof. Mohan and to get his feedback and guidance. The feedback from Prof. Mohan was as follows |
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Rain Water Harvesting in Bangalore - A Report Rithesh - 21-APR-2010
Growth in the no. of buildings with RWH facilities over the last one year.
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MoM from meeting with Prof. M.Sekhar deepakar - 20-APR-2010
Notes from our meeting with Prof. M. Sekhar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil Engg., Indian Institute of Science. Participants: Shekhar Mittal, Neha Dar, Deepak Rajanna. Our discussion mainly revolved around the IISc report on groundwater commissioned by the BMRCL. See bmrc.co.in/pdf/IISc-Report.pdf. Two important sources of information exist on the ground water situation in Bangalore. 1. The Department of Mines and Geology which has 8 collection points spread around Bangalore city that capture information on the ground water on a monthly basis. However, this data might not be available to the general public in it's raw form. Prof. Sekhar has given us references in the department who will be able to lend us the reports that they generate out of this data. See page 26 for more information; the "plus" signs on the map indicate the sampling locations. 2. IISc's ground water report for BMRCL. The main focus of the IISc Report is the impact of the underground sections of the metro on the ground water flow in Bangalore. |
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Public screening of " Water and A City": April 22nd 2010 shekhar_mittal - 20-APR-2010
CiSTUP and a few folks at praja.in are organising a public screening of the documentary "Water and a City". Everyone is cordially invited. Please spread the word and inform who ever you think will be interested. Date: 22nd April 2010 Time: 5.30 pm Venue: Golden Jubilee Seminar Hall, Civil Engineering Dept, IISc, Bangalore The screening will be followed by a panel discussion. The confirmed panelists are
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Need Volunteers for Sample Collection shekhar_mittal - 18-APR-2010
Building on to the post made here and here Janaagraha is collecting collecting info related to BWSSB water supply in all the wards. They need volunteers who agree to get pressure meters installed in their houses and provide water samples to Janagrahaa. Janagrahaa folks will come to your house and install the meter themselves. You won't have to do anything. The data generated will be useful for the water index which we are doing at Praja as well. Volunteering for this requires no effort at all so I hope anybody who sees this post should agree to doing it. Kindly make a comment giving your details: Area of Residence, Ward Number if you know it, contact details etc.
Thanks Shekhar Mittal
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