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Written By Vijay - 28 February, 2008

Bangalore Bangalore BBMP

Heres something thats totally counterproductive.

For all of you who have travelled on the Bangalore/Mysore road, the Vrishabhavathi canal on the outskirts of Bangalore is a familiar sight. Theres also a water treatment plant that was set up at great cost just before Kengeri.

Of late, there have been these huge garbage trucks that have been dumping waste into the canal AFTER the treatment plant... I cant help wondering why we have that plant in the first place. You clean something and then dump waste in it again???

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Can i do somthing more from my side

raviranjan.kumar - 28 February, 2008 - 06:25

Can i done some more.

I dont know, but i am ready to go to court.. file RTI .. whatever needed .. but i need guidance.

Thanks and Regards,

~ Ravi

will keep you posted

Vijay - 28 February, 2008 - 06:28

@Ravi, I will keep you posted.... I think its time for a group effort.. will talk to these people as well

I am victim of this

raviranjan.kumar - 28 February, 2008 - 05:48

Hi,

I am victim of this garbage dump. I have already contacted the Medical Officer of the BBMp, but looks like they are too busy to kool at this problem.

To add to the problem of garbage dump, there are slum ppl cpme and burn it, afterall that is the easiest way of extracting somthing useful. The toxic smoke makes the whole of the area choking.

Regards,

~ Ravi

Trying to Escalate

Vijay - 28 February, 2008 - 06:22

@Ravi:The people I know (who are facing this problem) have escalated it to a senior politician who has promised to do something about it by calling the appropriate authorities... lets see..

arkavathy

tsubba - 28 February, 2008 - 18:15

vijay and ravi keep us all posted please. great going. from one side they are cleaning up the river and other side they are dumping in it. what sort of waste are they carrying in trucks and why are they dumping such in a river? do you know if they found some good use for all that treated water? nobody seems to be buying it from them. they are thinking of pumping the treated water to TG halli. not a bad plan IMO. if they want, they could pump it into a swamp. if at all anything remain the biomass should take care of it. i have been wanting to write about NGO and BWSSB's efforts to rejuvenate the arkavathy for a while now. if anybody is interested let me know, i can give some leads. just have to figure out how to convert bookmarks to a text file. in general if anybody is interested tracking water and related issues let me know.

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