1. Biome Environmental Trust Chitra Vishwanath ArchitectsRainwater Club Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. LtdBiome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd Biome Environmental Trust Rainwater ClubRainwater ClubRainwater Club20082010

2. Children/Schools ProgrammeRural SchoolsUrban ground water IGWT BloogleRWH implementation Water filters Books Tree plantation 15 schools in Pavagada and Devanahalli talukOthers Playspaces Water Awareness and education programmes CMCA Volunteers / Students of public health from Australia, US Internships Blind Schools, Namma Shaale, Rishi Valley, PrakriyaCorporates Water Stewardship Awareness workshopsPolicy / Research / TrainingRWH policy Honeysuckers Plumbers / contractors 3. Village institutions relevant to Child and Women Empowerment and Well beingSchoolAanganwadiAsha WorkerPanchayatSelf Help groups 4. The School SchoolCritical for the countrys future A central point which concerns everybody in the village elders and children Targets of child nutrition / health programs Clear need for access to safe drinking water and sanitationAnganwadi 5. 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 6. Toilets : Not always used, water problems ! Big implication For girl Child 7. Tanks filled Up after the rains 8. Water very happily used by the School 9. Handholding with maintenance 10. Reviving Dead Assets : Rejuvenating Suvarnajala RWH 11. Making Toilets functional 12. Making life easier for Mid-day meals 13. External HelpGovernmentMid-day meal scheme Nutrition supplements Medicines : Anaemia, Diabetes RWH: Suvarnajala Books and UniformsEducation: water and sanitation Books: Reading RWH: With filter, storage, hand pump Bacteriological/Flouride Water filterShortcomingsSchoolsEducation Sanitation Food Health 14. 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 15. What is the project ? 1. Engage with Schools with Water problem to Help design and build RWH with storage and a pump for withdrawalA Tata Swach filter for the schoolSample testing kits to test water being used (H2S strip test and Fluoride indicative test) 16. What is the project ? 2. RWH, Water and Sanitation education module Give / work with kids to generate material on Schools RWH and different partsSmall Video show / book reading and mini workshop on water, sanitation and healthWater testing do and learnInvite the Asha worker, some key shg members etc for this workshop. What conversation does it create ? Will it help define / deepen intervention ? 17. What is the project ? 2. RWH, Water and Sanitation education module Give / work with kids to generate material on Schools RWH and different partsSmall Video show / book reading and mini workshop on water, sanitation and healthWater testing do and learnInvite the Asha worker, some key shg members etc for this workshop. What conversation does it create ? Will it help define / deepen intervention ? 18. 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 ? 19. PROJECT SPECIFICSEstimated Cost for Each projectDescriptionCost (in Rs)Storage (5KL sump)50,000Plumbing, Filter, Hand pump and other civil works32,000Filter5,000Books2,500Tree Planting2,500Trust Administrative Fee8,000TOTAL1,00,000 20. PROJECT SPECIFICSBudget : $20,000 ~ Rs 1,20,000 Cover about 12 schools with a budget of Rs 1,00,000 per school 6 Schools proposed in Vijayapura and 6 in Mulbagal Taluk Girls Schools as far as possible RWH System will last for a minimum of 20 years and each school has a minimum of 100 children. Hence each Rs 1,00,000 will impact about 2,000 children. Overall impact on 24,000 children Impact from School children to the entire community 21. 6 Projects Proposed in Vijayapura 22. 6 Projects Proposed in Mulbagal Taluk 23. Videos that detail prior work a) Rainwater harvesting, water quality and water literacy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8SJuhZ4QtY b) Water literacy- learning to check for bacteria in water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9U4FZdLfjg c) Rainwater harvesting at Urdu school Vijayapura http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT4MYGRvIc4 24. Volunteering 25. Thank You !!Biome Environmental Trust (Rainwater Club) 1022, 1st floor, 6th Block, HMT Layout, Vidyaranyapura, Bangalore 560 097, Phone : 080 41672790