India has the worse city planning and insfrastructures. But kudos to all those people who's trying to overturn the crisis and save the city from falling into water crisis
its funny how I live in Bangalore and I got to know about this project through you and not the NEWS since they are busy licking politician's butt. Thanks for the info, this surely needs recognition
@@gokulkrishna4011 Most of the lakes that have been lost are in areas where immigrants have settled. They don't care because it's not their 'home state'. The ones near where native Bangaloreans live are fiercely protected and developed into clean public spaces
There is another problem with deep wells: They refill much slower. There were a lot of projects in the past where wells got deeper and deeper, starving plants of their water (so all trees in the area died, removing fruits from the food supply) and eventually all of the deep wells either dried up or got so contaminated that the water became useless. It's good to know that the people behind this project are aware of these dangers and track them.
They just say, they track them, but in the end, they will still go deeper and deeper. Plus it is India, co the water is not drinkable for non-indians. They will just suck the water dry as it was done at so many places all over the world.
Yes, and many deeper aquifers are 'fossil' sources, in that they haven't refilled for thousands of years. Too much abstraction also leads to land subsidence and saline intrusion into the aquifer (in coastal areas). Deep groundwater quality depends very much on the local geology.
@@J.L999 I think, you missed the part of the video AND the initial comment of @PhilmannDark. Deep wells are not the solution, shallow wells are preferred. Here is why: The most important issue from the video was: Water is easier to treat as shallow wells have bacteria as an issue to be treated. Deep wells have nutritiens like salt and other minerals which need to be treated in a more complicated way. The comment added another argument for shallow wells and against deep wells, which was not really mentioned in the video.
We have already done this at our business establishment in cHikmagalur at Sunyata eco hotel. We dug a well that recharges through rainwater collection in the 6000 sq feet roof top. We treat waste water and reuse them for flushing and we have an underground tank that saves treated rain water for drinking and cooking purposes for our hotel guests. It has saved us so much money and headache every summer. There is environmental and financial benefit by incorporating small sustainable practices during construction
How do you treat the captured rainwater before drinking and cooking? At the end of this video, it looked like people were using water straight out of the open topped wells that are also where they dump the captured rainwater. This seems like a good way to spread bacteria and disease. I could understand if they were using these wells as recharge only and the water system of the city was centralized through a treatment facility.
@@dentonator2010 there is a method to follow with split pipelines. You first let the surface water of first few rain spells flow into underground well recharge. Once the roof surface is clean of any debris, you then let the flow fill up an basement tank that’s devoid of air and sunlight. During construction, some area of ground excavated for basement was designed in this way with a 50,000 liter water tank for collection(this prevents formation of any algae and the tank needs to cleaned and lime powder applied to the walls every year or two). The water is then tested for any possible contamination. If the results come clean, you pump this to a smaller roof tank and you then filter the water through regular mechanism when needed. For drinking, add any necessary minerals (rain water taste can be extremely bland) to improve the taste. The restaurant uses the pure rainwater for any cooking purpose which actually extends the longetivity of cooking utensils due to lack of any salt content. This is good enough to use for the entire year in our case. We also recycle waste water onsite and reuse it for flushing and gardening. The well water is good enough to be pumped during monsoon for showering purposes. (During summers, we still buy water from the city as the water well dries up due to neighbors pumping their bore wells). When you combine the three, it becomes a circular resource usage and we put in more water into ground than we take from the city. Saves health, money and our guests love it.
Making small changes to building codes such as including rainwater harvesting is such a powerful way of implementing widespread ecological change, we really need to push harder for such initiatives in places like the US. Mandatory solar energy and rainwater harvesting for new construction would do so much for us. We need more people enthusiastic about sustainability to go into public policy careers.
Your suggestions are existing in paper..strict implementation is the need of the hour. Cement roads are replacing the bitumen and tar roads without any space for the water to percolate to feed the underground aquifer. New buildings are built without much space between 2 buildings.
Solar won't keep up at that pace because a) can't make panels fast enough and b) panels wear out and c) nowhere to put the trashed panels, which are tremendously bad for environments
Funny thing is we needed andrew like people outside of India to recognize the efforts of our peers. Shows how humble the people working on such problems are
Shows how shit our media is, shows a lot of problems of our country in general. Even as a citizen, I wouldn't have known about this without this being in my feed. Also does show how ignorant I am too.
A youtuber needs to recognise instead of Indian TV medias . Indian medias are busy talking bs about Muslims and Sikhs. Somehow godi media will find a way to blame Muslims and fake illlllegal Bangladeshis for this water crisis.
@@abhinandhari7812 Our media is too busy being a lapdog for Modi and the ruling BJP government. How will we know anything about local issues? We had a civil war in Manipur for god's sake for months on end and media pretended like nothing was happening.
There is indeed a lot of strong evidence in India's thinking and actions that implies a commitment to sustainability. Vishwanath Srikantaiah and the older gentleman are representatives of this.
Here, we average 8" of rain a year, at 7000 feet elevation. We harvest rain to grow food. Our household water comes from a spring at 9000 feet, on an 11,000 foot mountain. We are obsessed with water. All of this information about what others are doing is inspiring, and it creates a web of common concerns. For all of you here, if you have not gone to India, go there if you can. On every level, India is extraordinary. India has one of our oldest civilizations, some of the most extraordinary geology on our planet, ... great food ... art, and everything. Choose a place, whether it is Kashmir or Bengaluru, you will have a great and thought provoking time.
Andrew your videos make me feel hopeful for mankind. Thank you for posting them and thank Bengaluru and India for creating these water harvesting projects that positively impact the societies it serves.
Another inspiring story from a water insecure city in Asia and how the community came together to help solve it. Thanks, Andrew and all who bring these success stories to our attention. Well done !
Bangalore is dotted with numerous IT parks, characterized by the presence of palm and Arab trees. However, these trees provide minimal shade and air circulation. I propose that planting native trees such as "Honge Maara" would greatly enhance the ecological balance and air quality of these areas. Moreover, many IT parks allocate significant space for decorative lawns which, in reality, serve no practical purpose as employees seldom utilize them. I suggest repurposing these areas to construct more recharge pits, thereby promoting water conservation and groundwater replenishment.
@@dhruvakhera5011 Your comment misses the point made in the video: there is no actual river water in Bangalore, making it clear that investing in recharge pits is essential. Your reasoning, full of "ifs" and "buts," resembles the typical mindset of a car owner who avoids planting trees to keep their car clean or avoid falling branches, but then seeks shade under trees in the sun and complains about poor air quality without contributing to tree planting.
@@RoodeMenon Feel free to disagree, but I never mentioned Cherry Blossom trees-I was specifically talking about Palm trees. Also, please remember that Whitefield is not the entire Bangalore. I’d appreciate it if you could read carefully before commenting.
Thank you so much for shedding light on Vishwanath Sir's One Million Recharge Wells project and thereby helping to expand awareness of that model/solution. Your effort in this area is extremely appreciated. Hope the Pilot in 10 cities blasts off with ample support from Central and State Governments and this solution becomes part of our town planning design and water management becomes an intrinsic part of our culture. These endeavours are not just top-down but they now require community participation. I hope and urge every human living in Bangalore (and such drying cities) starts feeling passionately about water management problems and solutions. Thank you Sir once again !!!!
Hey! Student from Bengaluru here, Im really happy to see the outstanding effort by these amazing people in my city Thanks for shedding light on this :D
Wow! Mr Srikantaiah is such a brilliant spokesperson, he sells the vision so well! And in his second language, no less! Thank you for sharing these stories, Andrew 🙏❤
@@mikerwriter Just for the sake of info - Malyalam is the least sopekn of all 4 south indian langauges. Its soothing to the ear but very difficult to learn and pronounce.
@@mikerwriter Malayalam is the least spoken language of the south but you'll find a malayali guy almost everywhere in the world lol. I think Tamil or telugu is the more spoken language of the south.
I'm from Banglore , and I didn't even know they were doing this , WOW , and the editing done is amazing and the time and patience you have taken to do this is just amazing Andrew
Try Perth WA. The issue is an encroaching saltwater lense. They have recharge ponds all over and it is sometimes part of the development code to provide recharge wells in your driveway. I helped install one in 2011 or 2012
Great solution to a problem. As to your 'permaculture' courses, would love to see more emphasis on Northern solutions rather than the easy Tropical/Desert solutions. Take the northern sections of Canada for example, how do you treat that environment.
Well you can start by banning the spraying of glyphosate across huge swaths of boreal forest. You can allow the growth of aspen and deciduous trees/undergrowth that will retain moisture and resist forest fires. Most of the forests in Canada are being managed like a Christmas tree farm...
The problem with the 'north' is that touching a watershed are mired in legalize. Stakeholders need to be consulted, committees need to be established, surveys need to be done, studies on shark breeding habits need to be done. Good luck running a diversion (even if it historically was an aquifer recharge in the area).
Just moved to Bangalore and I notice the amount of water trucks doing daily deliveries all around the city... Interesting to see some people are looking for solutions to such dramatic problem
Hey andrew, you should link up with shaun overton and his dust ups ranch, he is trying to revive a desert forest in texas i believe. it's a really cool project which proves that regenerative agriculture is feasible even in the west.
In reality, Shaun Overton should read up on Sand Dams, a perfect solution to his desert environment. He's doing the little dams, but he would have a much larger impact on preventing the majority of the water from running off his property in the gully, stop erosion and keep the water from evaporating, eventually the gully fills in with sand which protects the water from evaporating and creating an oasis in the desert. A couple weekends of putting in a larger dam in the gullies would have a massive impact. Sure, everyone hears dams and thinks bad, but this is not a river, it's restricting run-off water from stripping any organic benefits from the soil and building up the water table.
This sounds kinda similar to Los Angeles' recent work on rainwater capture for aquifer recharge. So cool seeing these concepts gaining traction around the world.
Watched this while sitting in Bengaluru, fantastic video - great to learn about the initiative. And also beautifully shot! Loved all the B roll you’ve captured, really makes it stand out from the usual urbanist kind of content (not sure if that’s the right adjective but hopefully you know what I mean!) My kids and I really enjoyed :)
What a great idea! I have been so scared over the past years of what will happen even to my country, Denmark, which has also seen a change in rainfall patterns, namely from a green country with regular rainfall throughout the year to country of brief, violent rainfall interspersed with long periods of drought which leaves nature looking bone dry and yellow after some weeks of no rain. These videos of water-harvesting and water-management have given me hope that there might be ways of adapting to the change in climate and still have a green country.
This is a great solution for bangalore because lately for a few years I have been seeing more and more news stories of bangaluru suffering from urban flooding, this is amazing and hope its implemented everywhere in india. We get a lot of rain, it doesn't make sense for us to be drying up our water reserves!
OR Just de-centralize the work force, allowing for more flexibility; so that the city can recover on its own (The natives know how to use the resources better and will treat it as their home instead of a milking machine) The city is running way over its capacity to hold people! Love how people are all eager to solve the issue at hand but not the underlying problem :D
@@warpspeedscp tbh, it depends all on your comfort, if not home you can take a good flat in some tier 3 city and your quality of life to expense ratio will be way better than to live in city like BLR and work from office. We’re all in this together man
I'm not entirely sure how water conservation practices work since I haven't implemented any yet. However, I'm currently living in the USA and planning to move back to my home country, settling in Bangalore. I've heard a lot about water issues there, so I want to prepare in advance. Here are a few ideas I've gathered from friends, along with some of my own: 1. Harvest rainwater. 2. Promote the use of flushable toilet wipes. 3. Before washing dishes, wipe them with a paper towel to remove grease and residue, then wash them with soap and rinse. This helps minimize water usage. 4. Direct wastewater from drinking water filters to toilets for flushing. 5. Encourage the installation of solar panels. 6. Build vertical gardens for terraces or explore other types of gardening. 7. Filter water used for washing vegetables and fruits, as well as water used for steaming food (like idli), and redirect it to plants or use it to water the garden directly. 8. Promote biodegradable wipes and sanitizers for handwashing. I hope these ideas contribute to better water conservation! While I'm not sure how effective or realistic they are, they feel worth a try.
Tx for another great video topic on urban water solutions & the power of community. It's estimated that 70 % - 80 % of people will live in cities by 2050 - cities MUST start providing SOLUTIONS to ecological & social challenges going forward. I would really love it if you could do a video on the beautiful stepwells of India, many of which are hundreds of years old & still providing water solutions today. Unfortunately India has lost & is losing many of its stepwells - a heritage quite unique to India.
Enjoyed your videoas always! They always give me hope. One thing I have noticed though is that the background music in your videos tends to have a high enough volume that it almost overtakes the main audio and makes it difficult to focus on the video. I think lowering the volume so the voices stand out more could help with clarity. Either way, keep up the good work!
Love your content dude. Probably some of the most important knowledge for humans to understand moving forward as we deal with the effects of climate change and over-development of land.
Rainwater harvesting is becoming mainstream in South Africa. Many homes have rain tanks to harvest rain water from their roofs, even in low rainfall areas they can make a significant contribution to household water needs. We learned how to live with less than 50L of water per person per day when several cities including Cape Town and Gqeberha almost reached Day Zero. The problem is caused by reduced rainfall but exacerbated by poor infrastructure maintenance and lack of planning by local municipalities and National Government. So ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands by installing rain tanks and recycling water. #proudlysouthafrican🇿🇦
Lucky you. My local government limits rainwater collection so we can sell water rights to other states down river. Doesn't seem right to me that citizens of my state have summer limitations on water use so that someone in Nevada can have a green lawn and swimming pool
Our house in BTM had an open well. Water was available just 10 ft below. During rainy season, it used to over flow.. we used the same fresh water. Unfortunately near by dye manufacturing unit spoiled our well water. We closed it 15 years ago.
in the indian states of telangana and andhra pradesh, rainwater harvesting is an almost traditional thing implemented while building new houses. no govt mandates, just tradition
Dear Andrew, thanks for another fascinating video. One thing I don't quite understand. It sounds like their problem started due to paving over lakes and something that destroyed the shallow well industry. To solve the problem they are reviving the shallow well industry, but what about the lakes?
For many of the lakes it is too late. They are using the existing lakes now as a way to recharge their treated wastewater back into the aquifer. But 1,000,000 recharge wells will perform the groundwater recharge function that the lakes were previously serving
I have a doubt my village is near hirakud dam ( world's longest man-made dam) and the water level is 35-40 feet higher than the my village's ground level but still when we dig borewell of 100 feet their no water. What reason behind this?? Reply please🙏
this is one of the ways where you don't need advanced technology to solve an issue - sometimes the simplest solution is the best one and im glad india will be implementing this in more cities! definitely a case study country for sure
Bengaluru has a whole list of problems caused by excessive urbanization just like this, it is rank one in traffic in the world, real solution is to build satellite cities to decongest and connectivity (like High Speed Rail) to ease stress or else it will become just another bubble of real estate speculation which is not good news for anyone. Best cities in India right now are Pune and Navi Mumbai with Hyderabad and Indore also showing promising future.
I live in a desert. Wells tap aquifers; underground water sources. They must be replenished. In many places in India (and in the US west) the aquifers are being exhausted.
I love this -- except near the end, the man mentioned "an era of climate change". At no point earlier in the video was climate change mentioned as a cause of the water shortage. Causes mentioned were: paving over of lakes due to urban development, reduction in traditional water conservation techniques and skills, including reduction in number of wells, etc. It was stated that the city still has abundant rainfall and is even at risk for floods. So climate change -- if it exists -- doesn't seem to be at fault here. Other than this one errant comment, it's a great video / interview, and I love what they're doing.
1.what is the area of the city 2.what is the area required for one shallow well 3.total area required for one million wells. 4.that much area is available in Bangaloru city
This is also a solution to the problem of combined sewage overflows in the USA. Currently many of our cities dispose of rainwater through the sewage system, when there is heavy rain/flooding the sewage plants are overwhelmed and raw sewage is released into waterways. The typical solution is to collect the rainwater runoff in a parallel centralized system and dispose of it in waterways but because the runoff is collected it needs to be somewhat treated so you're not dumping turbid water full of trash etc into rivers. Also, this concentrated runoff from an impervious city contributes to downstream flooding. If this runoff was collected in a distributed system of recharge wells it would need less collection piping and the local aquifer would be recharged and act as a buffer for torrential rains rather than contributing to flooding.
My company has a factory in the north of Indian in Haridwar. The factory has a trench most of the way around it, all the rainwater from the factory roof and paved outdoor areas is fed into the trench in order to return the water to the ground. They don’t want the water to just be carried away in pipes to the river, rather let the soil absorb and filter it.
What we have totally forgotten is to estabv;ish wells. It is our heritage for 1000s of years. Large wells were very common in Bengaluru. Remeber Indira Nagar had such large wells always with water.
one problem not discussed would be the chemical contamimation of the sgallow aqufier steming from human sources. plastic and daily life chemicals get easily on the street and washed out into the ground. This especially true in poorer ares. So i guess the strategy should be to implement good reclycling systems and provide education and incentives for people to be careful
First collect waste water from kitchen and bathrooms, recycling this water can produce 50 % of drinking water. Secondly, Collect each and every drop of rainwater and collect it into lakes, wells, water pits and dams. This will cover 50% water need .
I wish there was no music attached, can't listen to people explaining, still a very cool video. maybe youtube would finally allow sound tracks controls :) (so I can tone down music or up speach) (since the music is being added as a separate track anyway).
India need few laws for safeguarding our people. 1. Water law: every building must have own water regeneration plant with storage. 2ndly water harvesting by all companies, societies, municipalities, organisations and ministries. 2. Air law 3. waste management law for home and businesses. 4. Land laws to allow higher buildings then expanding cities. Keep jungles mountains and fields
My locality used to have around 10 lakes/ponds that we used to play around as children. I watched as most of the water bodies got filled up and large apartment complexes were built over them. Now only 1/2 lakes/ponds remain in our area. 😢
Please sir, do post videos of different water harvesting structures during heavy rainfall..We would love to see them getting used to their full potential....
India has the worse city planning and insfrastructures. But kudos to all those people who's trying to overturn the crisis and save the city from falling into water crisis
Given a chance, Indians are capable, dedicated and intelligent improvisers
Most indian cities were never planned in st place. Now govt is making greenfield cities with planning. @@andrewst9797
Yep, Same with my city 🙂↔️
There is no planning at all, people build where they see empty space
Rampant corruption is one big cause. @@kp-fh1pv
its funny how I live in Bangalore and I got to know about this project through you and not the NEWS since they are busy licking politician's butt. Thanks for the info, this surely needs recognition
stop evil real estate developers who encroch lakes.
Those who stop them are labelled anti development and communists
It takes guts which people of Bangalore do not have
@@gokulkrishna4011 Most of the lakes that have been lost are in areas where immigrants have settled. They don't care because it's not their 'home state'. The ones near where native Bangaloreans live are fiercely protected and developed into clean public spaces
@MahiMahi-yu5jo Immigrants will have to sell their settlement for dirt cheap if not water is available
@@MahiMahi-yu5jo What immigrants ??
No other channel on RUclips lifts my spirits like yours Andrew. I love knowing so many people worldwide actually care for the Hearth.
Thanks 🙏Words like that keep me going
I'm about to sub, thanks to this comment!
We should collectively care about Earth than Hearth now, isn't it?
There is another problem with deep wells: They refill much slower. There were a lot of projects in the past where wells got deeper and deeper, starving plants of their water (so all trees in the area died, removing fruits from the food supply) and eventually all of the deep wells either dried up or got so contaminated that the water became useless. It's good to know that the people behind this project are aware of these dangers and track them.
They just say, they track them, but in the end, they will still go deeper and deeper. Plus it is India, co the water is not drinkable for non-indians. They will just suck the water dry as it was done at so many places all over the world.
Yes, and many deeper aquifers are 'fossil' sources, in that they haven't refilled for thousands of years. Too much abstraction also leads to land subsidence and saline intrusion into the aquifer (in coastal areas). Deep groundwater quality depends very much on the local geology.
Then what is other solution, you think a better solution please share your knowledge sir .
@@J.L999 I think, you missed the part of the video AND the initial comment of @PhilmannDark.
Deep wells are not the solution, shallow wells are preferred. Here is why:
The most important issue from the video was:
Water is easier to treat as shallow wells have bacteria as an issue to be treated.
Deep wells have nutritiens like salt and other minerals which need to be treated in a more complicated way.
The comment added another argument for shallow wells and against deep wells, which was not really mentioned in the video.
@@J.L999 Just like the video said: Preserve water, stop waste, capture rain and keep in mind that it will always be finite, no matter what you do.
We have already done this at our business establishment in cHikmagalur at Sunyata eco hotel. We dug a well that recharges through rainwater collection in the 6000 sq feet roof top. We treat waste water and reuse them for flushing and we have an underground tank that saves treated rain water for drinking and cooking purposes for our hotel guests. It has saved us so much money and headache every summer. There is environmental and financial benefit by incorporating small sustainable practices during construction
How do you treat the captured rainwater before drinking and cooking? At the end of this video, it looked like people were using water straight out of the open topped wells that are also where they dump the captured rainwater. This seems like a good way to spread bacteria and disease. I could understand if they were using these wells as recharge only and the water system of the city was centralized through a treatment facility.
@@dentonator2010 there is a method to follow with split pipelines. You first let the surface water of first few rain spells flow into underground well recharge. Once the roof surface is clean of any debris, you then let the flow fill up an basement tank that’s devoid of air and sunlight. During construction, some area of ground excavated for basement was designed in this way with a 50,000 liter water tank for collection(this prevents formation of any algae and the tank needs to cleaned and lime powder applied to the walls every year or two). The water is then tested for any possible contamination. If the results come clean, you pump this to a smaller roof tank and you then filter the water through regular mechanism when needed. For drinking, add any necessary minerals (rain water taste can be extremely bland) to improve the taste. The restaurant uses the pure rainwater for any cooking purpose which actually extends the longetivity of cooking utensils due to lack of any salt content. This is good enough to use for the entire year in our case. We also recycle waste water onsite and reuse it for flushing and gardening. The well water is good enough to be pumped during monsoon for showering purposes. (During summers, we still buy water from the city as the water well dries up due to neighbors pumping their bore wells). When you combine the three, it becomes a circular resource usage and we put in more water into ground than we take from the city. Saves health, money and our guests love it.
Making small changes to building codes such as including rainwater harvesting is such a powerful way of implementing widespread ecological change, we really need to push harder for such initiatives in places like the US. Mandatory solar energy and rainwater harvesting for new construction would do so much for us. We need more people enthusiastic about sustainability to go into public policy careers.
In the US, all you'll accomplish is adding another $50,000 to home ownership, and contributing to further homelessness.
Imagine, towing the party line, and being able to remain unopposed by any comment.
Your suggestions are existing in paper..strict implementation is the need of the hour. Cement roads are replacing the bitumen and tar roads without any space for the water to percolate to feed the underground aquifer. New buildings are built without much space between 2 buildings.
@@want2behere - This guy is a Demo-warrior and doesn't understand your needs or US needs. That he feels good about what he said is what's important.
Solar won't keep up at that pace because a) can't make panels fast enough and b) panels wear out and c) nowhere to put the trashed panels, which are tremendously bad for environments
Funny thing is we needed andrew like people outside of India to recognize the efforts of our peers.
Shows how humble the people working on such problems are
shows how ignorant the people are of their own problems
Shows how shit our media is, shows a lot of problems of our country in general.
Even as a citizen, I wouldn't have known about this without this being in my feed. Also does show how ignorant I am too.
A youtuber needs to recognise instead of Indian TV medias .
Indian medias are busy talking bs about Muslims and Sikhs.
Somehow godi media will find a way to blame Muslims and fake illlllegal Bangladeshis for this water crisis.
@@abhinandhari7812 Our media is too busy being a lapdog for Modi and the ruling BJP government. How will we know anything about local issues? We had a civil war in Manipur for god's sake for months on end and media pretended like nothing was happening.
@@Sujay95 I live in manipur man it's a very serious situation modi doesn't give a f
Not only in Bengaluru, but every city in India must follow this to fight water crisis.
Unlike many western media outlets, you are showing actual solutions rather than just discussing the problems and pessimism. Awesome work! Subscribed!
There is indeed a lot of strong evidence in India's thinking and actions that implies a commitment to sustainability. Vishwanath Srikantaiah and the older gentleman are representatives of this.
no there is not.
Here, we average 8" of rain a year, at 7000 feet elevation. We harvest rain to grow food. Our household water comes from a spring at 9000 feet, on an 11,000 foot mountain. We are obsessed with water. All of this information about what others are doing is inspiring, and it creates a web of common concerns. For all of you here, if you have not gone to India, go there if you can. On every level, India is extraordinary. India has one of our oldest civilizations, some of the most extraordinary geology on our planet, ... great food ... art, and everything. Choose a place, whether it is Kashmir or Bengaluru, you will have a great and thought provoking time.
If you can cope with dirt & human cruelty
@@carlitox4721you just described the streets of new York and Los Angeles
@@jk_ilyu india too
@@carlitox4721 actually I see worse homelessness in North America, particularly sad as there is so much land and money
Andrew your videos make me feel hopeful for mankind. Thank you for posting them and thank Bengaluru and India for creating these water harvesting projects that positively impact the societies it serves.
Another inspiring story from a water insecure city in Asia and how the community came together to help solve it. Thanks, Andrew and all who bring these success stories to our attention. Well done !
People need to realize how important relocalization of resources is. So glad to see and hear this mentioned in the video.
Bangalore is dotted with numerous IT parks, characterized by the presence of palm and Arab trees. However, these trees provide minimal shade and air circulation. I propose that planting native trees such as "Honge Maara" would greatly enhance the ecological balance and air quality of these areas.
Moreover, many IT parks allocate significant space for decorative lawns which, in reality, serve no practical purpose as employees seldom utilize them. I suggest repurposing these areas to construct more recharge pits, thereby promoting water conservation and groundwater replenishment.
yea but without proper management you risk a mosquito crisis
@@dhruvakhera5011 Your comment misses the point made in the video: there is no actual river water in Bangalore, making it clear that investing in recharge pits is essential.
Your reasoning, full of "ifs" and "buts," resembles the typical mindset of a car owner who avoids planting trees to keep their car clean or avoid falling branches, but then seeks shade under trees in the sun and complains about poor air quality without contributing to tree planting.
Scammer-parks you mean
I disagree, I see Cherry Blossom trees in Whitefield. They give pretty good shade.
@@RoodeMenon Feel free to disagree, but I never mentioned Cherry Blossom trees-I was specifically talking about Palm trees. Also, please remember that Whitefield is not the entire Bangalore. I’d appreciate it if you could read carefully before commenting.
Thank you so much for shedding light on Vishwanath Sir's One Million Recharge Wells project and thereby helping to expand awareness of that model/solution. Your effort in this area is extremely appreciated. Hope the Pilot in 10 cities blasts off with ample support from Central and State Governments and this solution becomes part of our town planning design and water management becomes an intrinsic part of our culture. These endeavours are not just top-down but they now require community participation. I hope and urge every human living in Bangalore (and such drying cities) starts feeling passionately about water management problems and solutions. Thank you Sir once again !!!!
Hey!
Student from Bengaluru here, Im really happy to see the outstanding effort by these amazing people in my city
Thanks for shedding light on this :D
Wow! Mr Srikantaiah is such a brilliant spokesperson, he sells the vision so well! And in his second language, no less!
Thank you for sharing these stories, Andrew 🙏❤
Malayalam is not the only Southern language 🙈
There are also Tamil, Telugu and Kannada (the language of Karnataka where Bengaluru is).
@@mikerwriternah, they get to learn english but tney don't have this fluency
@@mikerwriter Just for the sake of info - Malyalam is the least sopekn of all 4 south indian langauges. Its soothing to the ear but very difficult to learn and pronounce.
@@mikerwriterI think my mother tongue Telugu is dominant? It’s Satya Nadella’s mother tongue as well!
@@mikerwriter Malayalam is the least spoken language of the south but you'll find a malayali guy almost everywhere in the world lol. I think Tamil or telugu is the more spoken language of the south.
I'm from Banglore , and I didn't even know they were doing this , WOW , and the editing done is amazing and the time and patience you have taken to do this is just amazing Andrew
Much respect and gratitude for sharing their take on water resource solutions. Thank you
Thank you, Andrew, again! This is a fantastic series and is inspiring people all over the world! I hope more people in India discover this work!
Try Perth WA. The issue is an encroaching saltwater lense. They have recharge ponds all over and it is sometimes part of the development code to provide recharge wells in your driveway. I helped install one in 2011 or 2012
I'm amazed at the lack of grey water systems and rain water tanks here in Perth. You would think they should be standard in our climate.
My parents went for retirement to India. Thanks a lot for this great video! It's wonderful
Great solution to a problem. As to your 'permaculture' courses, would love to see more emphasis on Northern solutions rather than the easy Tropical/Desert solutions. Take the northern sections of Canada for example, how do you treat that environment.
Well you can start by banning the spraying of glyphosate across huge swaths of boreal forest. You can allow the growth of aspen and deciduous trees/undergrowth that will retain moisture and resist forest fires.
Most of the forests in Canada are being managed like a Christmas tree farm...
The problem with the 'north' is that touching a watershed are mired in legalize. Stakeholders need to be consulted, committees need to be established, surveys need to be done, studies on shark breeding habits need to be done. Good luck running a diversion (even if it historically was an aquifer recharge in the area).
Too many bureaucracy in Canada. I doubt that you can do even anything on your own private land. Unless you're a part of First Nations.
day break mines become water resrvoirs eventually
I live in the tropics (and so does 40% of the world's population) and tropical solutions are not "easy".
This Background Music.... Never fails you to Identify India.
Just moved to Bangalore and I notice the amount of water trucks doing daily deliveries all around the city... Interesting to see some people are looking for solutions to such dramatic problem
We pay 900 rs per tanker.
177 timees × 900 is 1,59,300 rs divided among 125 residents is 1,274.
Epic storytelling brother.
Really good program. Unfortunately our media doesn't give these things any attention as only sensational things gets eyeballs and money for them
Thats so kick ass. Yet in the u.s. many states make it illegal to catch rain water.
wtf? why?
Wait, what😮
Wish i knew.
Since childhood I have always wondered why we don't use wells to replenish depleting ground water. And here they are doing exactly that 😍😍😍😍
Are we finally beginning to understand that concrete pavement and asphalt cause drought? 😱
Hey andrew, you should link up with shaun overton and his dust ups ranch, he is trying to revive a desert forest in texas i believe. it's a really cool project which proves that regenerative agriculture is feasible even in the west.
That sounds so cool and it makes me so proud to hear this stuff is happening in America too.
In reality, Shaun Overton should read up on Sand Dams, a perfect solution to his desert environment. He's doing the little dams, but he would have a much larger impact on preventing the majority of the water from running off his property in the gully, stop erosion and keep the water from evaporating, eventually the gully fills in with sand which protects the water from evaporating and creating an oasis in the desert. A couple weekends of putting in a larger dam in the gullies would have a massive impact. Sure, everyone hears dams and thinks bad, but this is not a river, it's restricting run-off water from stripping any organic benefits from the soil and building up the water table.
@@gonnagetya1433 I’m pretty sure he is not allowed to do that sadly, so he is doing the next-best thing
@@gonnagetya1433 Is this something you could communicate to him? I've also seen his videos in my feed and seen some of them - hoping he is successful.
This sounds kinda similar to Los Angeles' recent work on rainwater capture for aquifer recharge. So cool seeing these concepts gaining traction around the world.
Watched this while sitting in Bengaluru, fantastic video - great to learn about the initiative. And also beautifully shot! Loved all the B roll you’ve captured, really makes it stand out from the usual urbanist kind of content (not sure if that’s the right adjective but hopefully you know what I mean!) My kids and I really enjoyed :)
Amazing video, Vishwanath is a true super hero.
What a great idea! I have been so scared over the past years of what will happen even to my country, Denmark, which has also seen a change in rainfall patterns, namely from a green country with regular rainfall throughout the year to country of brief, violent rainfall interspersed with long periods of drought which leaves nature looking bone dry and yellow after some weeks of no rain. These videos of water-harvesting and water-management have given me hope that there might be ways of adapting to the change in climate and still have a green country.
I so appreciation these glimpses into ways water is appreciated and stewarded around the world!
This is a great solution for bangalore because lately for a few years I have been seeing more and more news stories of bangaluru suffering from urban flooding, this is amazing and hope its implemented everywhere in india. We get a lot of rain, it doesn't make sense for us to be drying up our water reserves!
OR Just de-centralize the work force, allowing for more flexibility; so that the city can recover on its own (The natives know how to use the resources better and will treat it as their home instead of a milking machine) The city is running way over its capacity to hold people!
Love how people are all eager to solve the issue at hand but not the underlying problem :D
If only I could stay home...
@@warpspeedscp tbh, it depends all on your comfort, if not home you can take a good flat in some tier 3 city and your quality of life to expense ratio will be way better than to live in city like BLR and work from office. We’re all in this together man
@@शाकुन्तलम् if only my office thought that way lol
I'm not entirely sure how water conservation practices work since I haven't implemented any yet. However, I'm currently living in the USA and planning to move back to my home country, settling in Bangalore. I've heard a lot about water issues there, so I want to prepare in advance. Here are a few ideas I've gathered from friends, along with some of my own:
1. Harvest rainwater.
2. Promote the use of flushable toilet wipes.
3. Before washing dishes, wipe them with a paper towel to remove grease and residue, then wash them with soap and rinse. This helps minimize water usage.
4. Direct wastewater from drinking water filters to toilets for flushing.
5. Encourage the installation of solar panels.
6. Build vertical gardens for terraces or explore other types of gardening.
7. Filter water used for washing vegetables and fruits, as well as water used for steaming food (like idli), and redirect it to plants or use it to water the garden directly.
8. Promote biodegradable wipes and sanitizers for handwashing.
I hope these ideas contribute to better water conservation! While I'm not sure how effective or realistic they are, they feel worth a try.
Tx for another great video topic on urban water solutions & the power of community. It's estimated that 70 % - 80 % of people will live in cities by 2050 - cities MUST start providing SOLUTIONS to ecological & social challenges going forward.
I would really love it if you could do a video on the beautiful stepwells of India, many of which are hundreds of years old & still providing water solutions today. Unfortunately India has lost & is losing many of its stepwells - a heritage quite unique to India.
I have visited many beautiful Indian step wells all over the country. It would be nice to make a video of them
You actually travelled to Bengaluru to find out. Wow!
Thank you for showcasing these solutions Andrew! You’re awesome! People are awesome! The earth is awesome!
Enjoyed your videoas always! They always give me hope. One thing I have noticed though is that the background music in your videos tends to have a high enough volume that it almost overtakes the main audio and makes it difficult to focus on the video. I think lowering the volume so the voices stand out more could help with clarity. Either way, keep up the good work!
I always feel hopeful from your videos.
After listening to all the scary Global warming documentaries I find relief in Andrews videos. Thank you Andrew for all your effort.🙏
Love your content dude. Probably some of the most important knowledge for humans to understand moving forward as we deal with the effects of climate change and over-development of land.
That's an amazing way to do it, demanding that all private areas have rainwater harvesting as well.
share this video as much as you can.. we need to educated people more
Great to see this,many mainstream news channels did not share this….
Philippine goverment and private water companies should learn from this practice on water management.
Rainwater harvesting is becoming mainstream in South Africa. Many homes have rain tanks to harvest rain water from their roofs, even in low rainfall areas they can make a significant contribution to household water needs. We learned how to live with less than 50L of water per person per day when several cities including Cape Town and Gqeberha almost reached Day Zero. The problem is caused by reduced rainfall but exacerbated by poor infrastructure maintenance and lack of planning by local municipalities and National Government. So ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands by installing rain tanks and recycling water. #proudlysouthafrican🇿🇦
Lucky you. My local government limits rainwater collection so we can sell water rights to other states down river. Doesn't seem right to me that citizens of my state have summer limitations on water use so that someone in Nevada can have a green lawn and swimming pool
I am learning so much from you! I’ll apply those techniques to my land
Our house in BTM had an open well. Water was available just 10 ft below. During rainy season, it used to over flow.. we used the same fresh water. Unfortunately near by dye manufacturing unit spoiled our well water. We closed it 15 years ago.
Great idea! May God be with you all in your noble mission❤️
Subscribed..Most underrated channel on YT. thanks Andrew for supporting This initiative 👏
Thanks professor Millison, for share with us these kind of water alternatives 💙
impressive topic, solution and of course: video production!
great to hear local music & see happy students throughout the video ❤
in the indian states of telangana and andhra pradesh, rainwater harvesting is an almost traditional thing implemented while building new houses. no govt mandates, just tradition
Dear Andrew, thanks for another fascinating video. One thing I don't quite understand. It sounds like their problem started due to paving over lakes and something that destroyed the shallow well industry. To solve the problem they are reviving the shallow well industry, but what about the lakes?
For many of the lakes it is too late. They are using the existing lakes now as a way to recharge their treated wastewater back into the aquifer. But 1,000,000 recharge wells will perform the groundwater recharge function that the lakes were previously serving
@@amillisonis there any concern about water quality as it’s getting sent straight to the shallow aquifer rather than filtering through a lake bed?
@@JoshuaRes In the video this was addressed: contaminants to the shallow aquifer are easy to clean, mostly bacteriologic
I have a doubt my village is near hirakud dam ( world's longest man-made dam) and the water level is 35-40 feet higher than the my village's ground level but still when we dig borewell of 100 feet their no water. What reason behind this??
Reply please🙏
@@pritampandey4932 could be a whole bunch of things, like an underground river system or a bedrock barrier preventing lateral seepage.
Great 👍. Wish All The Best To The Water Conservation 💧 Project. 🎉🎉
even i was thinking about rain water harvesting as the solution for bangalore's water shortages. Glad that they are implementing that.
One of my most favourite youtube channel ❤
Dedication and passion
The coverage of positive solution is good.
As a Bangalorean, this is awesome effort. Salute.
But again, as a bangalorean, i know the politics wont let this to fruition.
this is one of the ways where you don't need advanced technology to solve an issue - sometimes the simplest solution is the best one and im glad india will be implementing this in more cities! definitely a case study country for sure
Great video on an amazing community and program!
Wow this is great information!! Thanks for documenting
So as usual, citizens are doing what the lousy governments should be doing.
Yes. Congress won by saying they'll fix the water issue but they aren't doing anything.
Yes. Congress won by saying they'll fix the water issue but they aren't doing anything.
Don't pay taxes
Inko do wo paisa
There is one word duty not always rights
*local governments to be specific
I would love if you can make a report on himalyan water conservation as well. In states like Uttarakhand, Himachal or J&K
Again, amazing and inspiring video! I am waiting when you will visit some different countries as well
Great coverage of solutions and very simple strategy i like it
Great channel Andrew, keep up the good work!
Bengaluru has a whole list of problems caused by excessive urbanization just like this, it is rank one in traffic in the world, real solution is to build satellite cities to decongest and connectivity (like High Speed Rail) to ease stress or else it will become just another bubble of real estate speculation which is not good news for anyone. Best cities in India right now are Pune and Navi Mumbai with Hyderabad and Indore also showing promising future.
I live in a desert. Wells tap aquifers; underground water sources. They must be replenished. In many places in India (and in the US west) the aquifers are being exhausted.
I love this -- except near the end, the man mentioned "an era of climate change". At no point earlier in the video was climate change mentioned as a cause of the water shortage. Causes mentioned were: paving over of lakes due to urban development, reduction in traditional water conservation techniques and skills, including reduction in number of wells, etc. It was stated that the city still has abundant rainfall and is even at risk for floods. So climate change -- if it exists -- doesn't seem to be at fault here. Other than this one errant comment, it's a great video / interview, and I love what they're doing.
Another Brilliant Project!
1.what is the area of the city
2.what is the area required for one shallow well
3.total area required for one million wells.
4.that much area is available in Bangaloru city
Thank you for this service! ❤
Love frim Bangalore ❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳❤️❤️
This is also a solution to the problem of combined sewage overflows in the USA. Currently many of our cities dispose of rainwater through the sewage system, when there is heavy rain/flooding the sewage plants are overwhelmed and raw sewage is released into waterways. The typical solution is to collect the rainwater runoff in a parallel centralized system and dispose of it in waterways but because the runoff is collected it needs to be somewhat treated so you're not dumping turbid water full of trash etc into rivers. Also, this concentrated runoff from an impervious city contributes to downstream flooding. If this runoff was collected in a distributed system of recharge wells it would need less collection piping and the local aquifer would be recharged and act as a buffer for torrential rains rather than contributing to flooding.
Absolutely brilliant. Is there something that is being done across other cities in India as well. Better to act now.
My company has a factory in the north of Indian in Haridwar. The factory has a trench most of the way around it, all the rainwater from the factory roof and paved outdoor areas is fed into the trench in order to return the water to the ground. They don’t want the water to just be carried away in pipes to the river, rather let the soil absorb and filter it.
What if it didn't rain, we must plant more tree. Thanks for covering Karnataka ❤
Thanks for this video. Good to know something is happening
What we have totally forgotten is to estabv;ish wells. It is our heritage for 1000s of years. Large wells were very common in Bengaluru. Remeber Indira Nagar had such large wells always with water.
South Indian people are so smart.
Best part of India!
Goverment could have did it but they didn't. You see how heroes like them should be in charge of cities management to specific fields .
Stop over development and let the city breath
We should rephrase it ," Let the land breath 🫁"
Just loved this initiative and also looks forward to implement it in my area too ❤.
one problem not discussed would be the chemical contamimation of the sgallow aqufier steming from human sources. plastic and daily life chemicals get easily on the street and washed out into the ground. This especially true in poorer ares. So i guess the strategy should be to implement good reclycling systems and provide education and incentives for people to be careful
First collect waste water from kitchen and bathrooms, recycling this water can produce 50 % of drinking water.
Secondly, Collect each and every drop of rainwater and collect it into lakes, wells, water pits and dams.
This will cover 50% water need .
I wish there was no music attached, can't listen to people explaining,
still a very cool video.
maybe youtube would finally allow sound tracks controls :) (so I can tone down music or up speach) (since the music is being added as a separate track anyway).
India need few laws for safeguarding our people.
1. Water law: every building must have own water regeneration plant with storage. 2ndly water harvesting by all companies, societies, municipalities, organisations and ministries.
2. Air law
3. waste management law for home and businesses.
4. Land laws to allow higher buildings then expanding cities. Keep jungles mountains and fields
Rain water harvesting is just one part but regeneration of black and grey water is more important.
Florida could use some of this!
Going back to the old ways of well water our grandfathers had the solution Long ago
My locality used to have around 10 lakes/ponds that we used to play around as children. I watched as most of the water bodies got filled up and large apartment complexes were built over them. Now only 1/2 lakes/ponds remain in our area. 😢
Please sir, do post videos of different water harvesting structures during heavy rainfall..We would love to see them getting used to their full potential....