Bellandur, a suburb in southeast Bengaluru, has witnessed rapid growth due to the IT sector, bringing challenges in urban commuting, waste management, and water resource...
Nandi Deepa, an apartment complex built in 2005 on Bannerghatta Road, has 109 occupied flats with 350 to 450 residents. The complex does not receive...
Vidyaranyapura, a locality in North Bengaluru, is surrounded by multiple lakes, but as the area got urbanised, the lakes dried up. However, the groundwater table...
Waterworks – The Bengaluru story from biometrust
SJR Verity, an apartment complex with 334 units and 1000 residents, required 180 KLD (kilolitres per day) of water, mostly supplied by 40 tankers of...
Sai Poorna Paradise, situated in Bengaluru’s HSR Layout, is an apartment complex surrounded by the picturesque Begur, Somasandra, and Agara lakes. Established in 2008, the...
In 2021, Biome implemented a groundwater recharge project at the Association for People with Disability (APD) campus spread across a 5-acre property on Doddagubbi Road, Kothanur. The...
Introduction The Rail Wheel Factory (RWF), is a unit of Indian Railways, established in 1984. It manufactures and supplies 95% of the wheels, axles and...
JR Greenwich Layout, an 18-acre residential layout in Kodathi in Southeast Bengaluru, was constructed in 2015 with 180 plots and approximately 400 residents. The layout...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
When Mourya Jayaram found that the plot in Kaikondarahalli once had an open well, he was fairly confident that it would have water.
