Rainwater harvesting system
New Delhi: Soon a list of provisions will be set that have to be followed by those owning plots of size 3,000 square metre and above. An amendment has been proposed by management action groups to the Master Plan 2021 as per which the local bodies should ensure that building plans for such plots have [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now planned to seek suggestions and objections for wastewater recycling in the city. The bylaws of wastewater recycling which was made three years ago for new properties in Mumbai was not taken seriously then. Now, the civic body want to make the recycling process mandatory and plans to ask for [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has taken an initiative to promote rainwater harvesting in the city. To start with, the civic body has planned of training the senior citizens of the city of good effects of saving water. This workshop was recently held in the BMC headquarters. The workshop went on for three hours which was [...] Continue Reading »
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has ordered a probe into all occupation certificates (OC) issued by the civic body in the last 10 years against promised rainwater harvesting systems by builders. The announcement of the enquiry came after several corporators alleged that officials of the civic building proposal department had handed out OCs to builders [...] Continue Reading »
The fashion of installing Rainwater harvesting system seems not to have fancied the minds of Bangalore residents. The main fact is that maximum of the population do not know the functioning and structure of this system. To prove the same, the “water man of Bangalore” Jeff D’Lemos a retired engineer says that he has been [...] Continue Reading »
The greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation will grant discount on installation of green housing infrastructure in apartments. Installation of a solar water heater system or a rainwater harvesting system will provide a house owner for 10 percent discount on property tax. Hotels like Taj Banjara and The Park are availing 20 percent discount on their property [...] Continue Reading »
Now, as installation of rainwater harvesting was already mandatory in Bangalore, other cities are also following suit. The state Legislative Assembly recently passed an amendment bill to make rainwater harvesting mandatory in all the cities of Karnataka. It was already mandatory in all Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) wards with the passing of Bangalore Water [...] Continue Reading »
As the 1st day of the year is over, now it is time for some serious work. The first deadline for rainwater harvesting (RWH) system installation is over and now it is time for inspection by the authorities. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has started the auditing work in the houses from January [...] Continue Reading »
Unable to cope with the growing need for the potable water, HDMC has now decided to make RWH compulsory in new buildings coming up in the Hubli-Dharwad twin cities. Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation has made Rainwater harvesting compulsory. If owners of new buildings fail to set up rainwater harvesting (RWH) facility in their buildings, the Corporation [...] Continue Reading »
