Presentation made on 8th August 2015 at the Akshila Bharatiya Adi Shaiva Sangha. Talks of community efforts at Rainbow Drive and Classic Orchards. Lakes covered are Puttenahalli, Jakkur and Kaikondrahalli

1. Water
Rebuilding an urban
water culture
Shubha Ramachandran
Biome Environmental Trust

2. COMMUNITY : HOW SHOULD
WE MANAGE OUR WATER?

3. RAINBOW DRIVE
Location Sarjapur Road, Bangalore – Ground water stressed area
Size 34 acres, approx 350 plots, 258 occupied
Details Currently governed by Plot owners association (Society)
since 2002.
No BWSSB connection
Dependent on Ground water ( owned bore wells)

4. Entrance:
Prone to Flash
Floods during
Rain

5. ONLY Community Borewells

6. Every household
connection
METERED !!!!

7. Production Cost of Water and
Water Tariff
Slab Tariff
Upto 15KL Rs 30/- per KL
15KL to 25KL Rs 50/- per KL
Above 25KL Rs 120/- per KL

8. RECHARGE WELLS – THREE TYPES
Wells in Storm
water drains
invested in by RWA
(Collective
Investment)
Wells in Storm
water drains
invested in by
House hold
(Just outside the
house - individual
Investment)
Wells inside
the House
(individual
Investment)

9. Re-investment in Waste water
reuse

10. Phytorid STP and Community

11. EXCESS WASTE WATER SOLD
TO A FARMER

12. Classic Orchards – Off
Bannerghatta Road

14. Jakkur Lake
● 10 MLD design
● 8.45 MLD inflow
from Yelahanka
and Jakkur
● WETLAND
● STP open for
viewing

16. Treatment Plant and Jakkur Lake

17. Treated Wastewater entering the wet
Land System of Jakkur Lake

18. Nature as further treatment

19. Lake ecosystem

20. Fisheries

21. Sludge as Compost

22. Groundwater

24. Community – Jala Poshan

25. Puttenahalli – JP Nagar
● 13 acres
● 5-8 MLD from
private STP
● Provision for
WETLAND
● New Idea/Hope

26. Puttenahalli – JP Nagar

27. Kaikondrahalli

30. Participatory Aquifer Mapping

31. Thank you
Biome Environmental Trust
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