Water

Water And Children

Rebuilding a water culture

Shubha RamachandranBiome Environmental Trust

Biome Environmental Trust

2008 2010

Rainwater Club

Chitra Vishwanath Architects

Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Biome Environmental Trust

Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Rainwater Club Rainwater Club Rainwater Club

WATER USE

How much water do I use ?

Use Litres/person

Drinking 3

Cooking 4

Bathing 20

Flushing 40

Washing-clothes 25

Washing Utensils 20

Gardening 23

Total 135

Real Consumption range :

from 50 to 300 liters per person per day

National Town planning Norms :

Urban : 135 Lpcd

Rural (Karnataka) : 55 Lpcd

WATER AVAILABILITY AND

WHERE DOES MY WATER COME FROM ?

● 2.4% of World Area● 16% of World

Population● 4% of total available

fresh water

INDIA

Cities search for water

•Chennai: 235 km

•Bangalore: 95 km

•Delhi: from Tehri dam (450 km).

Chennai

Veeranam lake

Map of Tamil Nadu

Manjira dam

Hyderabad

Nagurjuna

105 km

100 km

Himayat Sagar

Osman Sagar

Vaitarna cum Tansa

90 km

105 km

Mumbai

Bhatsa

Bangalore need

Bangalore

Bangalore gets its water from the Cauvery 95 kms and 500 meters below the city

My water comes from a tap !!

My tap gets its water from an overhead tank......

.....to which water is PUMPED from my sump

tank........

And

My sump tank

Gets water from ??

But Many people don’t

Have “taps” at home !!!!

(Many places

don’t have

City/municipal connections

and many cant afford it)

Where do they get their

Water from ???

.... The unlucky many.....

…..And the lucky few…..

Tankers or borewells borewells !!

.... Some (i think) clever lot.....

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WATER HAS BEEN USED

What happens to all the water I have already used ??????

Use Litres/person

Drinking 3

Cooking 4

Bathing 20

Flushing 40

Washing-clothes 25

Washing Utensils 20

Gardening 23

Total 135

I use

clean water

And i throw out

Dirty water

What happens to

The rainwater that falls on

My house ?

The Sewerage treatment plant

Primary, Secondary and Tertiary treatment

…sewer and storm water drain networks ….

Sewage

treatment

plant

Lakes

And tanks

…but then many times storm water and sewage water gets mixed….

….. And lands up in lakes untreated…..

RIGHT TO WATER AND SANITATION recognised by the United Nations General

Assembly on the 28 July 2010

human right to water

The human right to water entitles everyone without discrimination to

sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible affordable water

for personal and domestic use.

Sufficient. The water supply for each person must be sufficient and continuous for personal and domestic uses. According to the WHO, between 50 and 100 litres of water per person per day are needed to ensure that most basic needs are met and few health concerns arise.

Safe. free from micro-organisms, chemical substances and radiological hazards that constitute a threat to a person's health.BIS 10500

Acceptable. acceptable colour, odour and taste for each personal or domestic use.

Physically accessible. Everyone has the right to a water and sanitation service that is physically accessible within, or in the immediate vicinity of the household, educational institution, workplace or health institution. According to WHO, the water source has to be within 1,000 metres of the home and collection time should not exceed 30 minutes.

Affordable. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) suggests that water costs should not exceed 3 per cent of household income.

human right to sanitation

The human right to sanitation entitles everyone without discrimination to physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, which is ●safe, ●hygienic, ●secure, ●socially and culturally acceptable, ●which provides for privacy and ●ensures dignity.

Sanitation is defined as a system for the collection, transport, treatment, disposal or reuse of human excreta and associated hygiene.

DID YOU KNOW ?

● In rural Sub-Saharan Africa millions of people share their domestic water sources with animals or rely on unprotected wells that are breeding grounds for pathogens.● The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 kilometres.● Average water use ranges from 200-300 litres a person a day in most countries in Europe to less than 10 litres in countries such as Mozambique. People lacking access to improved water in developing countries consume far less, partly because they have to carry it over long distances and water is heavy. For the 884 million people or so people in the world who live more than 1 kilometre from a water source, water use is often less than 5 litres a day of unsafe water.

DID YOU KNOW ?

● The basic requirement for a lactating women engaged in even moderate physical activity is 7.5 litres a day.● At any one time, close to half of all people in developing countries are suffering from health problems caused by poor water and sanitation. Together, unclean water and poor sanitation are the world's second biggest killer of children. It has been calculated that 443 million school days are lost each year to water-related illness.● In Tajikistan nearly a third of the population takes water from canals and irrigation ditches, with risks of exposure to polluted agricultural run-off.

DID YOU KNOW ?

● A survey of 5 000 schools in Senegal showed that over half had no water supply and almost half had no sanitation facilities. Of those schools with sanitation, only half had separate facilities for boys and girls. The result was that girls chose not to utilise these facilities, either because they did not want to risk being seen to use the toilet, or because they were warned that these facilities were not private or clean enough. Girls also avoided drinking water at school to avoid urination, thereby becoming dehydrated and unable to concentrate● People living in the slums of Jakarta, Manila and Nairobi pay 5 to 10 times more for water than those living in high-income areas in those same cities and more than consumers in London or New York. In Manila, the cost of connecting to the utility represents about three months' income for the poorest 20% of households, rising to six months' in urban Kenya.

WATER Quality

Quality● FAECAL

COLIFORM● NITRATES

● FLUORIDES● ARSENIC

WATER filtration

● Alum● Filtering with cloth● Boiling, SODIS● Chlorine dosing, bleaching powder, potassium permanganate, UV● Softening● RO, Ultra filtration, Nano filtration

Water in Bottles

Rights and Duties

Know your Water : For Schools

Water Literacy in Schools

Simple Steps

● Dual Flush/Eco San

● RO reject

● Low flow shower heads – kitchen, bathroom

● Bucket Bath

● Tippy Tap

● Kitchen wash water

● Metering

● Reuse waste water

● RWH

● Gardening use

Tippy Tap

Rainwater harvesting

components:

1) Catchment

2) Conveyance

3) Filtration

4) Storage

5) Recharge

<<< The saree is the

Catchment, conveyance

And filter !!!!!!

The collection and storage of rain for future productive use

The pit has reach the silt layer

Pit and concrete rings

Placing of the rings

The making of a recharge well

Waste Water Treatment

The product

Lake Primer – detailed 101 for understanding and helping

rejuvenate Bangalore Lakes

BIOME's engagement with children/schools

Asha WorkerSchool

Aanganwadi

Self Help groups

Panchayat

Village institutions relevant to Child and Women Empowerment and Well being

The School

• Critical for the country’s future

• A central point which concerns everybody in the village – elders and children

• Targets of child nutrition / health programs

• Clear need for access to safe drinking water and sanitation

School

Anganwadi

Toilets : Not always used, water problems ! Big implication For girl Child

School sources of water:

1.Panchayat / Muncipal water supply 2.If School owns a borewell,

its own borewell.3. Imminent Fluoride belt

Government Programme:•Suvarnajala : Rainwater harvesting for 20000+ schools•Miserable failure due to process

Tanks filled Up after therains

Water very happily used by theSchool

Handholding with maintenance

Reviving Dead Assets :Rejuvenating Suvarnajala RWH

Making Toilets functional

Making life easier for Mid-day meals

Rural Schools

RWH implementationWater filters

BooksTree plantation

15 schools in Pavagada and Devanahalli taluk

Others

Playspaces Water Awareness and education programmes

CMCAVolunteers / Students of public health from Australia, US

Internships

Blind Schools, Namma Shaale, Rishi Valley, Prakriya

Children/Schools Programme

WATER FOR FUN !!

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(Rainwater Club) www.biome-solutions.com

Www.rainwaterclub.org 1022, 1st floor, 6th Block,

HMT Layout, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore – 560 097,

Phone : 080 41672790

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