THE Jal Jeevan project is very close to all our hearts at the Water Resources Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay. On August 29th, 2019, IPP Rtn. Vijay Jatia, PP Rtn. Sandip Agarwalla, Rtn. Siddharth Bhimrajka and Rtn. Anand Parikh visited Jalna to inaugurate three Jal Jeevan Safe Drinking Water facilities in villages in Jalna...
THE project of installing six Aqua Guard units at the SPCA was completed by the Water Resources Committee on July 29th, 2019. SPCA was one of Rotary Club of Bombay’s target projects which required water purifiers to supply clean drinking water for animals, hospital staff and visitors. ...
THE RCB water committee has been busy. Three more villages were supplied with safe drinking water facilities through the Club’s Jal Jeevan programme for rural Maharashtra. On July 12th and 13th, 2019, our Water Resources Committee members Rtns. Abhishek Saraf and Akhil Sanghi, together with RCB’s project manager Nikhil Sonawane, inaugurated water plants in Rajderwadi (Nashik),...
EXCERPTS FROM ACTOR AAMIR KHAN’S INTERVIEW TO NDTV ON WATER MANAGEMENT What can Mumbai do? In cities like Mumbai, which receive a lot of rainfall, if all of us harvest the water instead of letting it go into the sea, it will help to reduce the load on water greatly. There are thousands of societies, complexes, houses,...
BETWEEN July 6th and 8th, 2019, our Water Resources Committee members Rtns. Vineet Suchanti and Bimal Mehta, together with RCB’s project manager Nikhil Sonawane, inaugurated water plants at Diksal Village in Ahmednagar. Elated villagers welcomed them with fanfare, music and fire-crackers. Subsequently, the team drove to another village Jogewadi, with a population of around 1,500, to...
Director-in-charge: Rtn. Homi Katgara Committee members: Rtn. Vineet Suchanti (Chairman), Rtn. Abhishek Saraf (Vice-chairperson), PP Rtn. Sandip Agarwalla, Rtn. Abhinav Aggarwal, Rtn. Raj Ajmera, Rtn. Homi Katgara, Rtn. Ravi Fotedar, Rtn. Rohan Dalal, Rtn. Sanjiv Saran Mehra, Rtn. Christopher Bluemel, Rtn. Suresh Goklaney, PE Rtn. Preeti Mehta, Rtn. Mahesh Khubchandani, Rtn. Bimal Mehta, Rtn. Akhil Sanghi,...
SAFE DRINKING WATER: JALNA AND AURANGABAD (VILLAGE CLUSTERS) Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) is a globally recognised organization dedicated to transforming the lives of millions across India in participatory watershed development and ecosystems restoration, adaptive sustainable agriculture, integrated and efficient water management, and climate change adaptation, with a special emphasis on vulnerable communities, farmers, and women. WOTR works...
RCB’S JAL JEEVAN HAS INAUGURATED 12 PROJECTS IN VIDARBHA REGION OF MAHARASHTRA The Rotary Club of Bombay’s Water Resources Committee inaugurated the installation of seven RO plants, one UV plant and distributed a total of 879 gravity-based filters in four villages in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. These were done as a part of the Jal Jeevan...
Rotary Club of Bombay’s Water Resources Committee inaugurated the installation of seven RO plants, one UV plant and distributed a total of 879 gravity-based filters in four villages in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. These were done as part of the Jal Jeevan initiative which provides safe drinking water to villages which will benefit them...
The Rotary Club of Bombay inaugurated a new Jal Jeevan Safe Drinking Water Facility at Yusuf Meherally Vidyalaya (YMV) at Tardeo, Mumbai on March 25, 2019. YMV is a co-educational Marathi medium school established in 1963. It provides an almost-free education to children from lower income groups. The facility was inaugurated by Moti Saraf (father of...
RCB inaugurates safe drinking water facility at Malabar Hill Post Office The Water Resources Committee of the Rotary Club of Bombay has installed a UV-based safe drinking water plant at the Malabar Hill Post Office. The equipment was supplied by Eureka Forbes Limited and is inclusive of a one-year warranty and two-year maintenance. The installation will benefit...
Republic Day inauguration of Jal Jeevan plants Jal Jeevan inaugurated water purification plants at Jeevandhara Kanya Ashram Shala, Ashagad, Dahanu city, and at Adivasi Seva Mandal School & Hostel, Talwada on January 26, 2019. The Ashagad facility will benefit 550 children and 25 faculty members while the Talwada facility will provide water to over a thousand...