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Report of rainwater harvesting at Gunjurpalya Higher Primary School
- 1. RAINWATER HARVESTING AT GUNJURPALYA HIGHER PRIMARY SCHOOL Gunjurpalya Higher Primary School (HPS) overview Management Department of Education, GoK Type Co-educational Medium of instruction Kannada Residential No Teachers 3 Classes 1st to 7th std Classrooms 3 blocks Playground Present Anganwadi Anganwadi has 30 kids. It is not in the same campus but adjacent to the school campus. Midday meal is cooked in the anganwadi but not in the main school Midday meals School gets meals from ISKCON Existing rainwater system Present but defunct. School is not interested in reviving the system because of the location Headmistress Ms Sowbhagyavatamma 9741903001 Students 91 Toilets 3 for boys, 3 for girls, 1 for staff. Built by Rotary Borewell One in the campus but not yielding Storage facility Sump of 3500 L and Sintex tank of 1000L SDMC 9 members Overview of the existing infrastructure and water supply ● The school gets its water supply from the Panchayat borewell to their sump ● The water is pumped to the OHT from the sump ● From the OHT it is distributed to the hand wash station, toilets, etc. ● There is one drinking water filter but currently not being used ● Anganwadi is in the adjacent campus and receives water from the Panchayat Issues observed ● Lack of water supply - the quantity of water supplied is not enough for all daily needs ● Sump size is not adequate ● Anganwadi faces immense water scarcity. Water for cooking is also not available adequately ● Toilets are newly constructed by Rotary and plumbing has been done, but water availability is sketchy
- 2. Existing water supply infrastructure and design Proposed design solution Cleaning and reviving the existing rainwater tank in the school Constructing a ferrocement filter on top of the tank Connecting the downtake pipe with an appropriate first rain separator (FRS) to the ferrocement filter Outlet from the filter to be connected to rainwater tank Provision of taps and plates washing area near this tank Connecting the rooftop downtake pipes of roof 2 and roof 3 Constructing a ferrocement filter Connecting the downpipes with appropriate first rain separator (FRS) with the ferrocement filter Outlet from the filter to be connected to the existing sump in the school From the sump, the connections already exist to the toilet and hand wash station
- 3. The work was taken up in the latter half of 2017 with funding support from Ittiam Systems Pvt Ltd. The orange color indicates new connections for rainwater harvesting.
- 4. RWH pipes and ferrocement filter