BIOME Environmental Trust has implemented Rainwater Harvesting in several government schools in the peripheries of Bangalore City. This has been done with the intent of providing safe drinking water to children in schools. This is a generic presentation that can be used to convey the context, process and budget to any prospective donor
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Implementation of RWH in Government Schools by BIOME
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3. Biome Environmental Trust
Chitra Vishwanath Architects
Rainwater Club
Biome Environmental Biome Environmental
Solutions Pvt. Ltd Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Biome Environmental
Trust
Rainwater Club Rainwater Club Rainwater Club
2008 2010
4. Children/Schools Programme
Urban ground water
IGWT
Rural Schools Bloogle
RWH implementation
Water filters
Books
Tree plantation
15 schools in Pavagada and Devanahalli taluk Corporates
Water Stewardship
Awareness workshops
Others
Playspaces
Water Awareness and education programmes
CMCA
Volunteers / Students of public health from Australia, US Policy / Research / Training
Internships
RWH policy
Honeysuckers
Blind Schools, Namma Shaale, Rishi Valley, Prakriya Plumbers / contractors
5. Village institutions relevant to Child and Women
Empowerment and Well being
Asha Worker
School
Self Help groups
Panchayat
Aanganwadi
6. The School
• Critical for the country’s
future
• A central point which
School concerns everybody in the
village – elders and children
• Targets of child nutrition /
health programs
• Clear need for access to safe
drinking water and sanitation
Anganwadi
8. 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
9. Toilets : Not always used, water problems ! Big implication
For girl Child
18. Government External Help
Mid-day meal scheme
Education: water and sanitation
Nutrition supplements
Medicines : Anaemia, Diabetes Books: Reading
RWH: With filter, storage, hand pump
RWH: Suvarnajala
Bacteriological/Flouride Water filter
Books and Uniforms
Shortcomings
Schools
Education
Sanitation
Food
Health
19. How to loop in other Village entities
Self Help Groups : Credit worthy
Aanganwadi : Kitchen, Educational aids for
smaller children, young mothers, unmarried
girls
ASHA worker : Health and Hygiene
information in the village, cleaning of drains,
new mothers, young children
SDMC : School Development Management
committee
Panchayat : Local Governance
20. What is the project ?
1. Engage with Schools with Water problem to –
• Help design and build RWH with storage and a
pump for withdrawal
• A “Tata Swach” filter for the school
• Sample testing kits to test water being used (H2S
strip test and Fluoride indicative test)
21. What is the project ?
2. RWH, Water and Sanitation education module
• Give / work with kids to generate material on
School’s RWH and different parts
• Small Video show / book reading and mini
workshop on water, sanitation and health
• Water testing – do and learn
• Invite the Asha worker, some key shg members
etc for this workshop. What conversation does it
create ? Will it help define / deepen intervention ?
22. What is the project ?
3. Monitor performance of RWH and storage
over atleast a two-three year period –
• Is it used regularly, how ?
• What are the maintenance issues ?
• What happens when teachers change?
• Is water quality maintained ?
• Does the storage double up as mutli-purpose
storage ?
• What conversations “go home” or elsewhere ?
23. Description School with about 100 %
kids and 250 sqm rooftop
Storage (10KL sump) 90,000
Plumbing, Filter, Hand 60,000
pump and other civil
works
86.5
Filter 5,000
Books 2,500
Tree Planting 2,500
Trust Administrative 25,000
Fee
TOTAL 1,85,000
* Schools proposed in Vijayapura and Hosa Gudya
* Existing infrastructure like sumps can also be reused in certain cases
