rain water harvesting Citizen Matters, Bengaluru

Is Bengaluru ready to drink treated sewage?

January 9, 2017 Arunava Banerjee

With more and more apartments installing sewage treatment plants, recycled water is available for use. After RO treatment, this water becomes potable. But are people drinking it?

BMTC’s Intelligent Transport System; Decoding illegal advertising; Travelling by Metro – the pros and cons

May 26, 2016 News Desk

What is BMTC’s new Intelligent Transport System all about? How many hoardings are there in Bengaluru and is BBMP collecting the revenues due? How is it commuting by work on Namma Metro? Why is rainwater harvesting important? All this and more in this week’s edition of Bengaluru This Week.

No water for peripheral areas of Bangalore: Gaurav Gupta

June 23, 2013 Nikita Malusare

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.

Environment

Water harvesting pits or just pits?

July 5, 2012 Navya P K

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

Residents ask for info on rain-water-harvesting

June 22, 2010 News Desk

This fortnight’s neighbourhood news round-up.

Infrastructure

Water idea, Sirji!

June 1, 2010 N Narayana Murthy

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

Environment

Start harvesting rain water this monsoon

May 24, 2010 Mayank Rungta

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.