Shree Padre

"Percolating young minds", is a case study written by Shree Padre in December 2007 , about a far-sighted educational trust, that is reaping the benefit of digging recharge wells long before the need for them.

"College saves lakhs of rupees on water", is a case study written by Shree Padre in February 2008, about the RWH work of Yenepoya Medical College 15 kms from Mangalore, which has already saved the institution a substantial sum on getting water from outside.

"Shedding the borewell dependency", is a case study written by Shree Padre in March 2008, about the initiative taken up by an educational institution near Mangalore, for rain water harvesting, that now ensures that the institution can do without water tankers during the monsoon months. In addition, the borewell also gets recharged.

"A two-in-one well", is a case study written by Shree Padre in April 2008, about the coastal village of Velneshwar in Maharashtra, which is home to a unique well that doubles up as a rainwater storage tank.

"Water deposit revives open wells", is a case study written by Shree Padre in March 2007, about the voluntary water harvesting measures done by a few, as well as legislation-led Rainwater Harvesting done by the others, due to which many of Chennai's open wells have sprung back to life.

"This bank deposits rain and draws water", is a case study written by Shree Padre in June 2008, about a Karnataka Bank branch in Mysore's simple plan to allow accumulated rainwater, which was earlier just pumped out and wasted, to percolate into the earth.

"Faithfully harvesting the rain", is a case study written by Shree Padre in September 2005, about the RWH work of an old church in Dakshina Kannada district, where despite living in one of the rainiest places in the nation, monks put up a roof water harvester many decades ago, and maintain it to this day.

"Water is no pipe dream here", is a case study written by Shree Padre in July 2008, about Konkodi Bhat's rain water harvesting work, using a simple pipe system at his home in Dakshina Kannada, that allows the family to use rainwater for half the year and lets the excess recharge the open well for usage in the remaining months.

"The gift from the sky", is a case study written by Shree Padre in October 2008, about H Ramesh and his family's work on rain water harvesting in their Mysore house, which they took up after being frustrated with the hardness of their bore-well water. They now use this rain water for almost all their domestic purposes.

"Rain barrels catalyse water harvesting", is a case study written by Shree Padre in March 2005, about the potential of rainwater harvesting, using examples from the Bangalore-Mysore region, with technology as simple as an ordinary plaststorage drum connected to the roof through a pipe. ic water