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"Water and a City" - discussions following the screening

26 April 2010 - 11:58am — murali772

The movie brought out the scenario fairly well, but which most on Praja are quite aware of.

During the discussions that followed, I brought up the matter of the reported 40% odd losses, largely on account of the inefficiencies/ mismanagement in distribution (compared to less than 10% in an efficient system), and followed it up with a suggestion "if the kind of contract entered into between Mysore City Corporation and JUSCO, was not the way to address the issue?".

Prof Mohan Kumar (Civil Engg Dept, IISc) responded saying a study/ survey had been conducted by L&T and Anglian Waters (or, one of the other foreign players - I am not quite sure which) a few years back covering some parts of Bangalore (I thought I heard the name Fraser Town mentioned) at a cost of Rs 32 crores - did he mention World Bank funded?. He did not mention if any work was actually undertaken. But, went on to add that it raised all kinds of technical issues, like "how do you replace the pipes in an area like Avenue road, etc?"

Meeting with Prof. Mohan Kumar

24 April 2010 - 7:26pm — deepakar

Prof. Mohan Kumar, http://cistup.iisc.ernet...., 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

Rain Water Harvesting in Bangalore - A Report

21 April 2010 - 7:08pm — Rithesh

Growth in the no. of buildings with RWH facilities over the last one year.  

 

Apr-09

MoM from meeting with Prof. M.Sekhar

20 April 2010 - 5:37pm — deepakar

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.

Public screening of " Water and A City": April 22nd 2010

20 April 2010 - 12:30pm — shekhar_mittal
22 Apr 2010 15:30
Asia/Calcutta

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

  1. Prof Mohan Kumar, Deptt of Civil Engineering

  2. Mr Thangaraj, Former Principal Secretary, Urban Development

 

Need Volunteers for Sample Collection

18 April 2010 - 3:10pm — shekhar_mittal

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

 

Meeting with Gautham Ravichander from WISA-Janaagraha

18 April 2010 - 2:44pm — shekhar_mittal

I met Gautham Ravichandar who is co-ordinating the new WISA project at Janagrahaaa. I wanted to find out the extent to which they are tracking water in their index and see if there is any way we can collaborate.

So, WISA has hired around 50 people who are going to each and every ward to collect the required info. Once TOI publishes the data they plan to make it open for everyone. I am not sure whether they will make it online but people can go to their office and access that data.

Their focus is more on creating some sort of a quality of life index. The categories they are going to cover are 

1. BWSSB Supply - 1 thing to notice is that the plan to track the BIS Benchmarks measuring with the help of a NABH accredited lab.

2. Parks and Playgrounds

3. Sewage and Sanitation - Public Toilets

4. Mobility

5. Environment - Air Pollution, Green Cover

Bangalore Bore well data

16 April 2010 - 8:06am — Rithesh

Total number of borewells in all BWSSB zones: 

 

31/01/09

28/02/09

31/03/09

30/04/09

31/05/09

Malathahalli Lake - Flushed out - Now a dry lake

14 April 2010 - 11:26am — Neeyathi_hemmige

Hi Prajas,

I stay in Malathahalli , especially close to Malathahalli Lake  When we moved in to this location, we really liked it as it was very calm, a perfect place to live amid nature, a lake close by and lot of trees. The lake was streching upto 7 acres ..

Unfortunately this was a short lived paradise, as i see that the authoriities have forcibly removed the water from the lake and now its a dry land. Upon enquiry, I was told that the BDA has taken-up this project and that would re-create a mini lalbagh and that they would introduce boating etc etc..

What I am worried about is that the water condition in the state is pathetic and if they forcibly dry out a natural lake then what.. Recently there was an artilce in Deccan Herald about the city bore-wells are drying up...

I am not sure if this information is true, however some activity is being conducted. Can you please if anyone who is reading this post have insight to this piece of activity. Thank you in anticipation.

Kind Regards,

Neeyathi

 

Meeting with Prof Sekhar Muddu

13 April 2010 - 1:03pm — shekhar_mittal
19 Apr 2010 18:00
Asia/Calcutta

Prof Muddu is a hydrogeologist at Civil Deptt IISc.

One can read about him here

All those who can make it, please confirm.

 

-Shekhar

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