Refresh, Rejuvenate and Conserve Water

by January 6, 2015 Environment

Soil and Soul brings to you a unique workshop on water that will cover two different challenges we are facing globally:

– Understand the natural water cycle and its interconnectedness with our food
– Various steps to inculcate as our lifestyle and to contribute back to earth’s regeneration cycle
– Entire water healing & dynamisation process  based on our experiential learning
– Various practical methods to implement in water conservation
– Screening of a Film
– Explore sustainable lifestyle choices we have in our lives
– DIY – Making your own Natural Alternatives for Mr. Muscle, Harpic, Fabic Conditioner, Vessel Cleaner, Shampoo, Detergent
– The world of Bio-Enzymes
– Water Dynamisation as water purification
 
The workshop is on Saturday, 17th January 2015 at 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Rain Water Harvesting Theme Park in Jayanagar 5th Block, Bangalore.
 
For the DIY workshop, you will need to bring the following:
– one 2 ltr empty plastic bottle
– two 1/2 ltrs empty bottles
– 300 gms of citrus peels (sweet lime / orange / lemon – any or even all mixed)
– 100 gms of jaggery
 
Prior registration for the event is a must. More details are in the poster below. See the Facebook link here.

 

Sections:

About Arathi Manay Yajaman

Arathi is a market researcher who loves to run and write. She has been actively involved in issues that affect citizens, including apartment management, waste management and lakes. She used to live in Mumbai and is now based in Bengaluru, working as a Community Anchor with Citizen Matters.
Read more by Arathi Manay Yajaman

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Similar Story

Blocked Kovalam-Nemmeli wetland channels risk disaster for South Chennai; Conservationists urge action  

by October 21, 2026 Environment
Barriers built for the Mamallan Reservoir block Buckingham Canal water flow, vital to keep the wetland alive, avoid floods and sustain fishing families.

In Chengalpattu district, the main water channels of the Kovalam-Nemmeli coastal wetland, which drains a catchment of more than 270 square kilometres, have currently been blocked. Barriers that obstruct water flow have been built across Chennai's Buckingham Canal at three places: Thiruvidanthai-Vadanemmeli, near the Nemmeli-Thiruporur bridge, and Saluvankuppam. Earlier, we explored how the Mamallan Reservoir causes serious damage to the wetland’s ecology and how fishing livelihoods are affected. Field investigations by the Wetland Conservation Network have recorded the blockages preventing tidal exchange in the Buckingham Canal.           According to officials, these barriers were put up to enable construction of the Mamallan…

Continue reading

Similar Story

Explained: How Mumbai is losing its tree cover to infrastructure projects

by October 12, 2026 Environment
Mumbai's landscape is changing with big infra projects. Experts suggest better use of government plots and improved street design to retain green cover.

Long before Mumbai’s relentless summer even began this year, the city was already simmering. In March, Mumbai was hit by a severe heatwave, with the temperature reaching a five-year high of 40° Celsius. As rapid urbanisation and a flurry of infrastructure projects replace dense tree cover with steel and mortar, heatwaves seem to have gone from being rare occurrences to an annual threat.   The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) cut a whopping 3,093 trees in Aarey Colony to make way for Mumbai’s Aqua Line ( Metro 3). For environmentalist Stalin Dayanand, this is not just a temporary problem.…

Continue reading