Integrated urban water management (IUWM) is the key to match with the thirst of increasingly urbanizing cities wherein the surface water, rain water, treated waste-water and groundwater should be placed into one paradigm.
IUWM focuses on building a collaborative approach involving all stakeholders – local authorities such as Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike, and local citizen groups among others can allocate priorities, develop solutions and take accountability.
Recharge Wells Building water resilience and sustainable water management. Biome Environmental Trust, Bengaluru. This document has been made to be used as a community resource and is meant to evolve with the contributions and experiences of everyone. Please write to us with your contributions. Please feel free to use, share and disseminate this document. We… Continue reading Recharge well primer
Bengaluru well Map – Not long ago, almost every house in Bengaluru had a well. Many of them were closed or fell into disrepair. Biome has been encouraging people to revive these wells and also to dig new wells. Putting these wells on a map will not only help us see how many wells are there… Continue reading Well mapping
Table of contents Introduction Recharge through recharge wells can serve two very important purposes: first to control and mitigate flooding and secondly to help ensure rainwater percolates into groundwater. Groundwater recharge can be achieved through multiple “artificial recharge structures” such as recharge wells, direct borewell recharge, check dams (found in the rural context) etc. However… Continue reading Rainwater Harvesting 3: How to recharge groundwater
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