Here are the resources compiled from the Water Workshop. Participants will also receive invitations to join the ‘Voices for Water’, invitations will arrive from the Rainwater Club.
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Extract from BWSSB presentation
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Handouts
Sustainable water supply in Apartments
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Casestudy
The below set of links provides a guide towards community rainwater harvesting and integrated water management and the story of how Rainbow Drive achieved it. This was published in the Citizen Matters. While it is written as though it is for a layout, its principles are applicable to the Apartment Complex or any group housing context :
Water supply from the bottom up
RWH in a layout: getting started
RWH in a layout: engaging the people
RWH in a layout: What, how, why and how much
RWH in a layout: Residents are water managers
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Videos on various facets of Water management
Rooftop rainwater harvesting in an apartment block -Bangalore India
Borewell – Workings, fissures and water in hard rock
Borewells in India – determining recharge rates for rainwater harvesting
Water in a recharge well, well after the rains
Rainwater harvesting,H2S strip test for e.coli and SODIS
Bangalore urban water supply- Chlorine use to disinfect water
Bangalore-Treating kitchen waste water for reuse
Electrical and Water Metering of borewells
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Mr Krishnan explains his Rainwater harvesting system
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The website of Rainwater Club and Biome Environmental Solutions
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More casestudies in Bangalore
Below link provides a whole bunch of case studies spatially mapped of different communities / individuals that have done rainwater harvesting or Integrated water management. It also provides a story, photographs and videos if available for each of the case studies. This is best viewed on mozilla firefox :
http://www.biome-solutions.com/biome/
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Useful tips
WATER SAVING TIPS
Lower your water bills with these simple steps
A change of a flush, a bucket bath, a dual sink, here are simple ways to conserve water in your own homes. .
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1212-saving-water-in-bengaluru
DRINKING WATER
Is your tap water safe or do you need to purify it? Or should you just buy bottled water? How do you decide? Here is a quick guide to water quality and water purifiers. .
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/1334-water-filter-purification
WORLD WATER DAY
Not a drop to waste How can we conserve water? How does one start on recycling water and harvesting rainwater. An introduction from India Water Portal..
http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/articles/view/930-bengaluru-water-resource
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Rice in my terrace? There is hope in this world for survival. Keep it coming my friend. We need inovations not just Green slogans.
You become the hope!