River diversion schemes and waste water recycling for Bangalore city.

摘要

This paper presents the reply of Hedge, G.V. and Subhash Chandra, K.C. to the comment made by Harsha [see J. Curr. Sci. (2012) 103, 144-146] regarding river diversion schemes for Bangalore City, Karnataka, India. The paper addresses the following topics reviewed by Harsha: (1) aquifers going barren with the prevailing situation of over-exploitation; (2) protection and conservation of storm-water discharge as outdated 'silo' approach of water management that does not consider river basin perspective; (3) type of technology and treatment for converting sewage water load into potable water; and (4) a cumulative approach to conserve all the available resources within Bangalore that can prevent the much advocated proposal like diversion of west-flowing Nethravati River water in the Western Ghats to the east.