Urban Water Program

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

  • Individual citizens, citizen groups, students, or institutions can apply
  • Action and outcome-oriented projects will be given higher priority
  • Pure research or academic projects will not be selected
  • Working with multiple stakeholders is encouraged
  • Project geography is limited to Urban Water cities, i.e., Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, and its peri-urban areas. It should be a community/commons project proposal
  • Articulate your idea as precisely as possible, examples below:
    • Working with KSPCB, communities, and fishers to enable discharge of treated STP water into the Lower Ambalipura Lake. Establishing monitoring and maintenance protocols for the same
    • Improving water quality in Ulsoor Lake
    • Prevention of flooding in Shanthinagar

Indicative Project Ideas:

  • Facilitating rainwater harvesting or community ground recharge – at a specific community or ward level by working with the community, ward committees, and government departments
  • Understanding the correlation between water and health in cities (e.g., water bodies, flooding, and vector-borne diseases) and encouraging or piloting practices can help improve health in a specific locality
  • Engagement/solutions to avoid mixing of sewage and stormwater in cities. The project can look at a specific drain or locality where the same will be addressed
  • Protocols and processes for maintaining and managing STPs in a watershed (we are not looking for a services/AMC offering)
  • Improving reuse of wastewater at various levels depending on context constraints; piloting wastewater ‘markets’.
  • Solutions for sewage/pollution/trash in/around water bodies; Solutions to avoid eutrophication in water bodies; aeration solutionsThe list is only indicative, and applicants are encouraged to identify problems they associate with and are keen to find solutions.

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