rain water harvesting

The mindless planning of infrastructure in Bangalore has led to depletion and contamination of ground water. Bangalore is already drawing 140 MLD water from Cauvery, while the actual limit is 90 TMC.

BBMP has allocated Rs 30 cr for setting up RWH pits in the city. But faulty design may render much of this useless.

This fortnight’s neighbourhood news round-up.

Casa Ansal apartments, Bannerghatta road makes great progress in water management, cutting down Cauvery water consumption and substantially reduced the monthly water bill.

One litre of milk requires five litres of water during processing in a dairy. 1kg of sugar equals 2500 litres of water. All these and more were discussed in this BWSSB’s session on rain water harvesting.