US researchers to revive Bangalore's lakes
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BANGALORE: Guess
who is interested in reviving Bangalore's once-beautiful lakes?
Researchers from the US- from Sherwood Institute and environmental
engineering firm Carollo Engineers - have come forward to improve seven
lakes that are linked via Koramangala valley. Miss Earth 2010-11 Nicole Faria is the ambassador for the project.
Bangalore-based Invicus Engineering headed by urban expert Vivek Menon signed an MoU with the BDA in this regard a month ago. Sherwood Institute that was founded to change the way we use our water and energy through sustainable innovative solutions is also a signatory.
The project covers reviving connecting lakes such as Agaram, Bellandur, Varthur, Madiwala, Devarabisalahalli, Doddanekkundi lakes. This will take care of a fifth of Bangalore's stormwater drains too.
Segregating the sewage lines form the stormwater drains is one major task. "We plan a parallel channel where sewage can flow. Here we can grow ecologically sensitive plants that absorb the sewage. In West, there have been experiments on extracting bio-fuel from such plants," said Menon.
Sherwood Institute board member Michel St Pierre was in Bangalore two months ago and visited the lakes. "With the city's rapid development and lack of public action to protect the natural resources of the city, today less than a third of the lakes remain. There is pollution from human and industrial waste and land filling has occurred through illegal dumping and development," Pierre wrote in the institute website.
Bangalore-based Invicus Engineering headed by urban expert Vivek Menon signed an MoU with the BDA in this regard a month ago. Sherwood Institute that was founded to change the way we use our water and energy through sustainable innovative solutions is also a signatory.
The project covers reviving connecting lakes such as Agaram, Bellandur, Varthur, Madiwala, Devarabisalahalli, Doddanekkundi lakes. This will take care of a fifth of Bangalore's stormwater drains too.
Segregating the sewage lines form the stormwater drains is one major task. "We plan a parallel channel where sewage can flow. Here we can grow ecologically sensitive plants that absorb the sewage. In West, there have been experiments on extracting bio-fuel from such plants," said Menon.
Sherwood Institute board member Michel St Pierre was in Bangalore two months ago and visited the lakes. "With the city's rapid development and lack of public action to protect the natural resources of the city, today less than a third of the lakes remain. There is pollution from human and industrial waste and land filling has occurred through illegal dumping and development," Pierre wrote in the institute website.
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