They have 10 offices in Bangalore alone (isnt that good news ;)
They have a lot of laboratories which are set up for KSPCB for data analysis and data gathering.
The site says "Samples collected by the Regional Offices of the Board, Industries, Organizations and from general public are analysed."
When i read this I only get evil ideas (evil because it might not be fun for a lot of people)
They have listed a number of parameter that they analyze.
Industrial waste water has: 41 parameters
Air: 6 parameters
Water: 26 parameters.
They have things like "monthly avg result of national ambient air quality" and "classification of river water quality as per GEMS and MINARS"
The only small, tiny winy problem is they have failed to update any new reports and the last one is of 2007.
The last annual plan has been put up for year 2006-2007.
So I have a simple question, what happened to KSPCB? Does it exist? If it does then where are the reports?
If they have reports then cant we file RTI to get it?
All
What's on FM radio about Bus Day this week!?
Just to keep all in the loop about what's on air about bus day.... 94.3 , radio one, started Monday this week.
Busday:
Incremental List of Parameters
The following is an incremental list of the parameters we plan to track as part of the water index. We shall continue to add parameters until we finalise a stable index.
Request Praja members to review this list, focusing on
* Any broad category that has not been covered.
* Any parameter that has been left out.
To add to the list,
edit this wiki page and enter your suggested parameter(s) under the sixth category (Additonal Parameters). Please enter clear and concise parameters/descriptions. Rap on the knuckles for vagueness. :)
The first five categories form the initial list. Additonal parameters suggested by Praja members form the 6th category:
1. Pipe Water
a. Hours of Supply
b. Coverage - Percentage of households having a bwssb connection.
c. Unaccounted for Water- Calculated by measuring the amount of water that BWSSB bills to the amount of water that it supplies.
Open Schooling
For a detailed FAQ please check out http://openskool.wordpress.com/faq/ and the PPT attached.
List of Experts to Contact
Once we have the presentation and an initial list of parameters ready, we need to start reaching out to all the experts we can for feedback.
Let us create a list of experts we should get in touch with as well as the person who can be the point of contact.
This is a wiki so make the changes in the post itself.
- Prof TV Ramachandra ( IISc) -- Neha/Manjari are trying to get in touch with him--DONE
- Dr Shekhar Muddu ( IISc) -- He is a hydrogeologist. Zenrainman sir can get us in touch with him.--Meeting him on monday
- Mr Tippeswamy (ex- BWSSB) -- Swati Dandekar is the point of contact. Consider checked out to Shekhar-DONE
- Dr Harini Nagendra -- Who is he/she??--Sent out email--response awaited
- Once we have reached out to all the above folks, we should also get in touch with Prof Ashwin Mahesh and Prof Rajeev Gowda.
- Another name that came up at CiSTUP is of a Professor Mohan. It seems he has done a lot of work with BWSSB and was instrumental in getting RWH mandatory.---Sent out email--response awaited