Mr Sanjeev Patil’s Sanyam Permaculture Farm is set on two plots of farmland adjacent to each other in Halligeri Village, Dharwad. Both plots are principally...
Introduction Ferns Residency is a residential layout in Kothanur in north-east Bangalore. It is 21 years old and is spread over 30 acres. It currently...
Introduction Astro Rosewood Regency, located on Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru, is an apartment complex of 188 flats, of which 175 are occupied. They use borewells and...
Understanding water demand Have you ever wondered how much water you use? Would you be able to estimate how much water do you actually need?...
Our planet’s water circulates continuously from the atmosphere to land and oceans, and back again in a process known as the hydrological cycle. The hydrological...
The word “groundwater” might conjure the image of a wide, subterranean sea or lake beneath our feet but this important water source is actually extracted...
This presentation gives examples of wells in use in different situations, from a house to an industry to a town.
Bengaluru Water Context- Click here to see the Bengaluru Water Story in videos Table of Contents Introduction Historical Context Demographic and Landuse Context Ecological Context Bengaluru Topology Bengaluru...
Mr Abhishek Oomen built a house in OMBR layout in the northeast of Bengaluru. The construction of the house started in 2017 and was completed...
NOTE ON CONSTRUCTED WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEM – A NATURE BASED SOLUTION FOR TREATING CONTAMINATED URBAN RUNOFF AT ONE OF THE INLETS OF SELAIYUR LAKE IN...
NOTE ON DIGGING RECHARGE WELLS ON PUBLIC ROADS WITH PARTIAL FUNDING FROM WIPRO FOUNDATION In Chennai, almost all the roads, big and small, are covered...
The borewell is now perhaps the most common source of water in urban India. These are wells dug deep into the ground to tap into...
Recharge Wells Building water resilience and sustainable water management. Biome Environmental Trust, Bengaluru. This document has been made to be used as a community resource...
Kaikondrahalli in southeast Bengaluru is a parched area. BWSSB does not supply water here, and borewells around 1000 feet deep are common. But there is...
Table of contents Introduction Recharge through recharge wells can serve two very important purposes: first to control and mitigate flooding and secondly to help ensure...
With sub-metering, a few Bengaluru apartments have reduced their water demand and better managed their water scarcity If you live in an apartment that does...
On a Saturday morning, K P Singh is surrounded by residents of a neighbouring layout asking questions. Singh, middle-aged and bespectacled, is a resident of...
Given the severe water shortage we face in cities, reducing water demand is no longer a choice, but a given. Whether you live in an...
To implement any water reform in an apartment or layout – be it metering, rainwater harvesting or sewage treatment – the entire community has to...
If you live in an independent house, wastewater treatment and reuse is a good way to meet a large part of your water needs. Wastewater,...
In most Indian cities wastewater is a common feature – we see it overflowing our drains and lying stagnant in puddles. Despite the problems it...
India is a groundwater based civilisation, and wells were always a part of people’s lives. With the advent of piped water, wells slowly disappeared from...
As communities dig borewells hundreds of feet deep in the desperate search for water, the idea of simply digging a traditional open well may not...
Safina Towers is a 13-year-old multi-storied office building with two towers on Ali Asker Road, Bengaluru. Set in a 2.5-acre plot, with two parking basements,...
An open well is simply a hole in the ground that allows access to water underground. Open wells are used to extract water found at...
In Bengaluru, lakes often lay trapped under layers of water hyacinth, a sure sign of how polluted they are. But in Jakkur lake, weeds and...
About five years ago, Gayatri Pandit set up a Direct Use rainwater harvesting (RWH) system in her home, concerned that too much rainwater was getting...
Ravi Iyer’s home is surrounded by a bright green garden and lawn even at the peak of summer. Plantains and other trees, flowering plants and...
When we think about preventing water contamination, the first thing that comes to mind is boiling water to destroy microbes. Avoiding microbial contamination is the...
The ‘Million Wells for Bengaluru’ campaign was started by the Biome Environmental Trust in July 2015 and is expected to run for ten years, till...
The household of Mahalakshmi Jayaram, an architect, is nearly independent when it comes to water. Wastewater is treated and reused here, and rainwater is directly...
In most cities, municipal water utilities do not charge for the true cost of water – you may have noticed this when you look at...
We complain about the muck that our cities are mired in, often forgetting that it is us who generate it – untreated sewage from households...
Lakes are large water bodies surrounded by land. They are found in all kinds of environments including plains, mountains and deserts and can also vary...
When Mourya Jayaram found that the plot in Kaikondarahalli once had an open well, he was fairly confident that it would have water. Mourya’s company,...
Imagine if we could get our water for free – no payment to municipal agencies or private tankers, or having to buy cans of drinking...
Lying at the corner of a quiet residential lane in Vidyaranyapura, R Balasubramaniam’s house is anything but plain. Greenery surrounds the two-storeyed orange-painted house, unlike...
The main components of a rainwater harvesting system designed to directly reuse rainwater are: Catchment: The area where rain falls and the runoff from which...
