This document summarizes participatory urban water management efforts in Bangalore, India. It involved: 1) Participatory aquifer mapping with local residents, government bodies, academia and NGOs to understand groundwater resources and challenges. 2) Citizen dialogues and collecting data from over 130 borewells to map local water resources and quality issues. 3) Engaging schools, communities and corporates to increase water awareness through rainwater harvesting projects, lake rejuvenation efforts, and understanding the true costs of water. 4) The goals are to institutionalize local responsibility for sustainable water use through metrics, transparency, knowledge sharing and inclusive community participation.

1. PARTICIPATORY
URBAN
Integrated Water Management
Vishwanath Srikantaiah
BIOME ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST
BANGALORE

2. Participatory Aquifer
Mapping

3. BOUNDARIES – Micro Watershed

4. Participants

5. Participants
Understanding Ground Water
Government Bodies
- KSRSAC
- KSPCB
- KUWSDB
- CGWB
- BWSSB
- DMG
- BBMP, LDA, BDA, Panchayats
ACADEMIA
- IISc
ATREE
CHRIST University
Civil Society
Residents/RWA
Local small businesses
Local NGOs
Service Providers
Water Quality Testing Labs
Borewell Diggers
Tanker Operators
Camera Inspection
Hydrofracturers
Plumbers
Well diggers

6. Citizen Dialogue at
Pollution Control Board

7. Data Collection ~ 130 Borewells

8. Data Collection – Recharge Wells

9. Recharge Well Information from
Well diggers

10. Understanding Demand/Waste Water:
NCC cadets for door to door survey

11. Events / Community - formal

12. Getting People Together : Events

13. Corporates : Reaching out to employees

14. RWH in a Govt School : NDTV programme

15. Engagements with Schools and Children

16. Engagements with Schools and Children

17. Water Audits

18. Weather Station

19. CORPORATES
WATER CONSCIENCE
WATER RESPONSIBILITY

20. FRAMEWORK TO
INSTITUTIONALISE
RESPONSIBILITY

21. Institutionalising responsibility:
Foundations of the
Framework
Metri
cs
Deman
d
Metric
Embodi
ed
Energy
Water
Sustainabil
ity Metric
Responsible
Siting
Metric KPI
Knowledg
e
Inclusive
ness
Transparen
cy
 Data
 Experiences (processes)
 Entitlements
 Self regulation

22. Communication material

23. Communication material

24. Social Media
● YouTube Channel
● Water Wise in THE HINDU
● On Facebook, Twitter

25. Outcomes : Emphasis on Ground water recharge

26. Outcome : Increased acceptance of a shallow open well as a
source of water of good quality and low production cost

27. Outcome: True Cost of Water gaining acceptance
● Increasing block
tarif
● Pay for True Cost
of Water
● Increase in STP
treatment and
reuse
● Encourages RWH

28. Outcome: Community Eforts to Rejuvenate Lakes

29. Outcome: Lake seen as an option for discharge of excess
treated STP water : Community takes responsibility

30. Outcome : Beginnings of understanding the Aquifer

31. Outcome: Volunteering/ Increased
participation

32. Biome Environmental Trust
(Rainwater Club)
rainwaterclub@gmail.com
www.rainwaterclub.org
1022, 1st
floor, 6th
Block,
HMT Layout, Vidyaranyapura,
Bangalore – 560 097,
Phone : 080 41672790
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