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  • Save these trees - road widening?

    20 October 2008 - 10:36pm — Rithesh
    Infrastructure

    BBMP/BWSSB are at it again. I am surprised at the ease with which they go about cutting the trees.

    This time it is the stretch of road between BDA junction and Cavery Theater junction (New Airport Road). Some one really very creative is at work here - they are finding new innovative ways to cut down trees and this time BWSSB has chipped in to help them.

    In this particular case - BWSSB dug deep trenches just next to the trees (they are laying a pipe line). With in days most of the trees tilted dangerously towards the trench. A couple of days latter all these trees were cut down - may be citing treat to life and property. Surprise surprise, a few days latter, the foot paths are decreased and work is on to increase the width of the road - all this natak for a few extra feet of road (for a road which is already wide enough). Most of these tress were atleast 50-60 years old.

    BDA Junction

  • Power and water connections only after BBMP approval

    29 September 2008 - 12:37pm — murali772
    PowerWater

    Aspiring house owners, beware. It would be best to stick to the sanctioned building plan, as even the smallest deviations in the form of setbacks in front, rear, left or right side of the building, height of the structure or number of floors, could leave the building in darkness and without water.

  • Storm Water Drains and BBMP budget

    1 September 2008 - 9:54am — Ravi_D

    Vehicles, animals and now people floating in rain water pools - Sound familiar?

    Deja vu. Examples: Today's Deccan, Friday's Deccan

    For once, let us forget what happens with the money spent. But what if the allocation was never spent? Attached PDF is an extract from BBMP's budget document.

  • Water supply PPP

    13 August 2008 - 11:28am — murali772

    Nagpur Municipal Corporation has invited for 'Expression of Interest' for pre-qualification for bidding for its 24x7 City Water Supply Project, on PPP basis. Should Bangalore follow suit?

    Through its ad on page 15 Sunday TOI (dt 10/08/08, click on right-side bottom corner at

  • Need for a water regulatory authority

    9 July 2008 - 8:46am — tsubba
    Latha K. Rao Chairperson BWSSB. source: Zenrainman's channel http://youtube.com/user/z...

  • The OORU-NEERU Water Walk

    29 June 2008 - 9:14am — tsubba
    29 Jun 2008 09:08
    6 Jul 2008 09:08
    Asia/Calcutta
    LakesWater
    Attention shutterbugs and bangalore enthusiasts!! An excellent oppurtunity to show your camers skills and to get some insider gyaan on water in bangalore from S. Vishwanath. The OORU-NEERU Water Walk will look at the Hesarghatta reservoir and its current state. A siphon provided as an overflow mechanism, another unique structure worth a closer look, remnants of a brick aqueduct and a small temple on the bund are some of the other facets that will be looked upon during this walk. http://bcp.wikidot.com/ci... The Hessarghatta Urban Space Event is being organised for the Bangalore City Project by S. Vishwanath, (www.rainwaterclub.org and www.arghyam.org) who writes extensively on water issues.

  • BWSSB's plans

    18 June 2008 - 7:59am — tsubba

    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.

  • The Holy Grail of Citizen Participation

    23 May 2008 - 9:20pm — tsubba

  • Harnessing a scarce resource

    27 March 2008 - 11:24am — murali772
    Governor Rameshwar Thakur's call for constituting a 'Water Resources Regulatory Authority', vide the report in your columns on 26th March under the caption 'PPP can be answer to water scarcity', has not come a day too soon.

  • Arkavathy Serious. Arrive Soon.

    23 March 2008 - 8:37pm — tsubba
    Lakes
    Arkavathi had origins in the Nandi Hills. After a journey of 190 kms around Bangalore it joined the Cauvery at the Sangama in Kanakapura district. Vrushbhavathi was a tributary of the Arkavathi. Arkvathi had a catchment area of 4351 sq. kms from where it collected water.

    Both Doddaballapura and Ramanagara depend on Arkavathi, not to mention numerous villages. In 1894 Bangalore first ran out of water from within its boundaries. Then they built two reservoirs on the Arkavathi - the Hesaraghatta reservoir(1894) and the Thippagondanahalli reservoir(1933). Even to this day Arkavathy supplies 20% of Bangalore's water supply.

    Like the rest of the peninsular rivers, Arkavathy was never a Brahmaputra. During summers, Arkavathy would reduce to a trickle. Yet was a time when, even in summers, you could get water at 4 meters below ground in any of the 30000 wells in its basin. Now there is no river even in the rainy season. But now, Arkavathy is dead. Maybe not, but Arkavathi is atleast in coma.
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