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.
