River Stories with the Beehive Design Collective
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Desilting
I was looking up desilting as Mr. Keishav mentioned it and was wondering if it was a viable option.
I found a pretty concise presentation to explain it.
You need only read the first 8 slides.
http://www.gwsp.org/fileadmin/GCI_conference/Products/Pos_pres_-_Paimpillil_-_Reservoir_de-siltation.pdf
I still don't know if its an environmentally friendly option.
I found a pretty concise presentation to explain it.
You need only read the first 8 slides.
http://www.gwsp.org/fileadmin/GCI_conference/Products/Pos_pres_-_Paimpillil_-_Reservoir_de-siltation.pdf
I still don't know if its an environmentally friendly option.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Talk with Anitha Aunty
Talk with Anitha
Aunty:
- Riots in 92 - Tamilian child burnt to death.
People were afraid to leave their houses. City wide shut down(police
shooting?). Teenage boys throwing large rocks.
- Borewells
These are extremely expensive to
dig and maintain She herself has one that is within her property that was
dug out long before you needed special permission to do so.
Water from bore wells require
testing to see if they are safe for use. A lot of the times they are unsafe if
they are dug near an industrial area.
The underground water level is also
decreasing as more bore wells are dug out.
She said that a large number of
villagers are coming to the city and abandoning their land because there is no
water near the surface and the well have to be dug over 300ft into the ground
and that becomes too expensive.
And so there needs to be a larger
supply of Kaveri water in the city itself as it keeps expanding.
- Yelahanka(SFS?) started out as a government
housing colony that has proper drainage and Kaveri water supply.
She had Kaveri water supply for her house earlier
before she broke it down to make a building and then dug the bore well and so
never bothered to get the connection back.
- She has two basins in her kitchen, one solely
for washing fruits and vegetables. The water from this is collected in a
bucket which she then uses to water her plants.
- There are specific plants that have oil producing
seeds (some are Vengi and Punna). People collect these seeds to use as
fuel. One man in a village near her farm has managed to use only these
seeds to help pump water from his well.
- People believe the Kaveri water is purer
because it is ever flowing and not stagnant.
- Kaveri water only comes 2-3 times a week so
the water is stored in a sump which is a sealed cemented tank.
- She feels like it should be made compulsory for
every house (or at least buildings and large houses) to have solar panels,
water harvesting systems, proper waste management, water and waste
recycling, etc.
- The large amount of chemicals used in cleaning
fluids kills microorganisms and makes waste and water non-recyclable.
- TN has a lot of power with the central government
because of Jaylalitha.
TN asked Kerela to raise the walls of an age old
unstable dam on the Periyar river called Mullaperiyar just to store water for
their use.
Kerela gets enough rainfall to supply everyone but
they don’t harvest enough of it.
Coca Cola in Karnataka
"After the recent visit of The Coca Cola
Company's Executive Vice President Irial Finan to Andhra Pradesh and Telanganafor
a possible investment, the Karnataka government has suddenly woken up and
making a fresh attempt to retain the company"s project in the state.
The state government, which has been sitting
for the last four years over the company"s request for allotment of 250
acres land at Yadgir in north Karnataka to set up a greenfield bottling plant,
has all of a sudden started the process of acquiring land for the company"
Aug 7, 2013: http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/coca-cola-s-bottling-plant-meets-roadblock-113080600371_1.html
Aug 20, 2014: http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/karnataka-renews-bid-to-retain-coca-cola-in-state-114082000907_1.html
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