plan 100Laughing Waters Water and Sewage projects

Summary

Urban community project to manage and conserve water resources and repair and enhance sewage system

Background

The Laughing Waters community is one of the oldest planned/gated communities in Whitefield, Bangalore. However, for most of the last 20 years the plots remained mostly vacant. Recently many homes have been built (including 3 apt buildings) and there has been much stress on the original water and sewage systems.


The current water tower has a capacity of 300,000 liters approximately. It is filled up every other day and the residents get water for a couple of hours. Each home has put in tanks that fill up and thus supply water inside the home. There is quite a bit of leakage, however, it is hard to measure.


The plan called for 4 sewage treatment plants (STP) and one was constructed. Due to being volunteer run, the association was unable to continue the original project to completion. The costs for completing the other 3 have gone up and the residents are raising funds.


Originally there was one borewell and a second one was installed a greater depth. The first one is showing signs of drying up and there is a plan to put in a 3rd.


There is 2 acres of common area which are watered with borewell water. The residents are hoping to use grey water to water all the common areas and thus save precious ground water.


In addition, consumption needs to be measured and then maybe a plan to have a pay-for-use system.

Location

Karnataka, South India, India

Attachments

  • ADEPT-LW...
  • ecolife2...
  • LW_Water...
Name Status Completion Date Final Cost
LW:1 STP-1 Treated Water Storage and Reuse completed_partial Apr 2009 0
LW:2 STP-2 Design, Construction, and Deployment of Sewage Treatment Plant completed_partial Apr 2009 90,000
LW3 Metering Program to Measure Water Usage in_progress Dec 2009 10,000
LW7 Development of Backup Borewell #2 completed Dec 2009 1,000
LW5 Developing Backup Borewell #1 or Using it for Groundwater Recharge in_progress Mar 2009 0
LW6 Original Borewell Restoration in_progress Mar 2009 0
LW7 Groundwater Recharge Next to Main Borewell complete_unsuccessful Feb 2009 1,500
LW8 Groundwater Recharge Through Deep Injection Into Unused Borewell complete_unsuccessful Feb 2009 0
LW:4 STP-4 Design, Construction, and Deployment of Sewage Treatment Plant completed_late Apr 2010 200,000
RWH tank#3 completed_partial Jan 2014 2,000