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My objection is  to the illegal, unauthorized,illogical  methods BWSSB is using for enforcement.

I have already implemented the RWH in principle- I donot want to pay the BWSSB engineer and his authorized contractor for a certificate. When things run on the basis of such certificates I am sure you know as well as I do that the RWH compliance will be only on paper.

Why not make it every house holder? why not club 2 site owners of smaller size? After all they also get rain water and infact it would encourage  the smaller houses to have atleast  a 3x3  open earth! everything is built up and concreted.

Why should not the meter reader who comes everymonth be permitted to certify compliance? Why burden the consumer?

Why have not rules been brought out for controlling the indiscriminate sinking of borewells which is one of the major causes for depletion of the water table after 25 years of the problem coming to their notice?

Are you one of the householders required to shell out for RWH or 30 percent educated, or 5 percent tax payer,  or  well off'  you  would  have many objections to  carry  all the ills  and ails of the other seventy percent.

They dont have to pay taxes, utilities, power, but get to live in an upscale address.  All the "benefits"  of "city" life they get is from your(?) and my hard earned money.  That goes to subsidize food, schooling and anything else government provides them in their name from your money.

After sixty years of giving "free" rides to the "unfortunates" slum dwellers and uneducated,

I object to hauling  the donkey cart, so they can have cell phones, radios cable TVs two wheelers, alcohol etc on your and my hard earned money.

Why should not the meter reader who comes everymonth be permitted to certify compliance? Why burden the consumer?

 Instead of creating awareness and cooperation. No one will have problems with prospective rules. But to selectively apply the rule to some 60000  old households arbitrarily, retrospectively is undemocratic and illegal. I dont know whether you have a porperty for which you have to make these alterations to "suit" BWSSB officials and the "authorized" contractors.
Have you any idea how much of BWSSBs revenue is drained by the illegal connections?

BWSSB should plug all the loop holes. How much can 60,000 houses save. Seeking voluntary compliance is always a better democratic way and supposed norm in a SIXTY years independent India.

They just sell their votes for a saree,drink, 500 rupees etc and tilt your democracy in their favor each and every time. Democracy becomes the mockery that you can see in every state every day.

Now a days you cannot get any of the villagers to do a day's honest work even by paying because under the Rozgar yojanas each household gets one job, which they get paid doing nothing.
That is why labor contractors are bringing employees from Bihar orissa west bengal etc.

All I want is democracy to be fair to one and all, not be based on the economic/educational status or the burden of the mass be borne by the educated or well off sixty years after independence.

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Including Cauvery 4th stage, BWWSB will be pumping close to 1000 MLD (million litres per day) into Bangalore. With an annual average rainfall of 970 mm, if we can harvest the entire rain falling over the 800 sqKm forming the extended BBMP, it will give us 776,000 ML in a year, or 2130 MLD.

If we can harvest a 50%, we would be getting more than the equivalent of the present pumping, and all for free.

Very clearly, increased RWH is the answer.

 

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I am a little sceptical about this RWH stuff. I've been planning to get RWH done but when I talk to people there are various aspects of the whole thing which are bothersome. For one, it seems like most people are just simply buiding a hole in the ground and allowing the water to go in there - to recharge groundwater. Apparently, according to one of the companies I dealt with - Farmland Rainwater - it seems like this is not good as the soil in Bangalore is not permeable enough - too clayey and so the water simply stagnates and that could lead to other problems - mosquitos etc. A solution to this is to connect the RWH to a borewell but then not everyone has borewells.

The other possibility is to connect the RWH to the sump system directly using a filter. The problem with this is whether the water is clean enough. At least in my place the trees could cause a problem as leaves are constantly falling on the roof so the roof has to be cleaned very regularly. Added to this the occasional monkey doing its job etc. The RWH company guy says that the filtre is good enough to make the water potable but one always has ones fears.

Finally, I think one problem with RWH is that the city water is too cheap. Even with a 200% increase the cost is negligible compared to other things - like cable TV or internet or electricity. So there is little incentive for some one to install RWH as even with the best estimates it takes about 20 years to recover the cost.

At the end of the day, there seems to be Rain Water Harvesting of different flavours. I fear that what the BWSSB has mandated will have no real effect as most people will do the `nam ke vaste' thing and this, while satisfying the mandate, will not really help.

Ramesh

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What is the contribution these unfortunate's can make for the bludgeoning city and its water problems?

Unfortunates owning 60x40 sites in Bangalore? Hmm... I wonder what they will call the hutment dwellers. Gifted?

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