A good monsoon, but Pune Municipal Organization fails to prepare for a stormy day

After a worse monsoon in 2009, the Pune Municipal Organization had planned to have a backup plan that might come handy if the monsoon failed or was postponed.

Annually considering that, the social system has talked about the plan and other options at the beginning of the stormy season, but taken them apart when a good monsoon when the reservoirs of its ravage are full, like in the present season, follows.  

The plan is a complete must now because 22 of the 32 big towns in India face water issues with some battling with just 60% of their daily necessity. Although Pune has sufficient water for now, worse monsoon years in series and an growing town can create whatever is accessible now a shortage, specialist said. 

"As of now, there is enough water in the dams. It will suffice till the next monsoon. However, in the long term, the city does need a contingency plan. The plan announced in 2009 remains on paper," said a civic official. 

Major Gen (retd) SCN Jatar of Nagrik Chetana Manch said the civic body is not serious about planning for water supply. "The civic body is not at all prepared to tackle a major water crisis and every year after a good monsoon, the civic body postpones its contingency plan. Only after a major crisis will the PMC wake up," he added. 

Established data show that the town gets sufficient water. But a lot is dropped in travelling from Khadakwasla, making the genuine accessibility much low and what is accessible is erratically allocated.

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Karnataka government to make rain water harvesting mandatory in Bangalore

The Karnataka government may make rainwater harvesting system mandatory in the city, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah indicated today.

"Let's try to make it mandatory," he said in reply to a question from K S Puttannaiah (Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha), who pointed that Coimbatore city in Tamil Nadu has done a good job in rain water harvesting, adding, Bangalore's water requirements would soar in the coming years.

To decongest Bangalore and check rapid migration of people, the Chief Minister agreed with the Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa that towns around the city such as Tumkur, Hoskote, Chikkaballapura and Ramanager needed to be developed. 

Government would come out with a perspective plan for Bangalore, Siddaramaiah added.

The Chief Minister, meanwhile, said work on the 65 km peripheral ring road project from Tumkur Road to Hosur Road with a width of 75 metres would be taken up very soon.

Japan International Cooperation Agency has agreed to provide financial assistance to the Rs.4,300 crore project, which includes land acquisition and construction costs besides intelligent transport system.

Responding to a question from S R Vishwanath (BJP), Siddarmaiah said farmers, from whom 1,810 acres had been acquired for the project, would be given an option of either financial compensation or sites.

Initially, the road width was planned to be 100 metres but it has been scaled down with proposal to have sites in the "cut-out" 25 metres stretch, he noted.

The Chief Minister also said that Justice (Retd) B Padmaraj inquiry committee which looked into the allotment of sites under 'G' category by Bangalore Development Authority as per a judgement of the Karnataka High Court would submit its report on August 26.

Siddaramaiah, replying to M P Appachuranjan (BJP) who wanted to know the steps taken by the government to allot sites to legislators who have not got them, said the Government has stopped allotment following the court order. He said based on the recommendations of the committee, the government would take further action on the issue.

The High Court in its August 25, 2012 judgement, observed that the allotment of sites made under 'G' category by the BDA is illegal and without the Authority of law. 

A Better Rainwater-Harvesting System

Harvesting rainwater to use for growing vegetables makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, the most common method of rain harvest isn’t the most effective. Typically, gardeners invest in a rain barrel — which holds only 50 or 60 gallons of water — and then dole out the captured water to plants as needed, hopefully emptying the barrel before the next storm.

But 50 gallons is only a small fraction of the water you could be harvesting each time it rains. During a 1-inch shower, more than 900 gallons of water flow off the roof of a 30-by-50-foot house or barn. Instead of catching just a little bit of it in a rain barrel, why not capture it all? You can do just that with a simple setup that diverts rain from your downspouts directly to your garden. We’ll tell you more about how to do this in a minute, but first, we’ll explain why we think it’s such a good idea.

How Soil Stores Water

Even many experienced gardeners have trouble comprehending just how much water soil can hold. Except in areas with consistently high rainfall, your garden soil’s moisture level will seldom be at “field capacity.” That’s the term scientists use to describe the maximum amount of water a soil can hold. When it rains or when we irrigate, gravity pulls the water down into the soil. After a heavy rain, some of the water may move all the way down to the water table or the bedrock, but a large amount of it is held by capillary forces that cause water to coat each soil particle and partially fill the spaces between particles. (An example of capillary action is the way a paper towel absorbs liquid.) That capillary water is what your crops use as they grow.

Each soil’s field capacity varies depending on how much sand or clay is in it. One cubic inch of coarse sand may contain 125,000 particles, while the same amount of the finest silt could contain 15.6 trillion particles! Soil particles have an astonishing amount of surface area. One cubic inch of an ordinary soil (with a mix of sand, silt and clay particles) could have a surface area of 25 square feet.

What those numbers mean is that many soils can hold 2 to 3 inches of water in each foot of soil depth, and garden soils that contain lots of organic matter can hold even more. Crop roots can reach down 4 feet — sometimes even 8 feet deep — to tap this capillary water. To be sure crops get the water they need, gardeners would ideally want to keep their soil moisture near field capacity to a depth of at least 4 feet. During peak growth, crop transpiration together with surface evaporation can draw as much as a half-inch of water per day. The more water you’ve stored in your soil, the less you will need to provide supplemental irrigation.

To understand how soil moisture levels vary in your area, check out the soil moisture maps from the National Weather Service. These maps will tell you whether soil moisture levels in your region are above or below normal at any particular time.