Bali Water Protection (BWP): Ensuring Freshwater Resilience For Bali
Gianyar, IndonesiaIndonesia
Year Founded:
Project Stage:
2015
Organization type:
nonprofit/ngo/citizen sector
Idea
Budget:
$500,000 - $1 million
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Scaling strategies launched within the past 6 months:
Large Scale Partnerships
Trainings, Consultation
Campaigns
- Corporate social responsibility
- Fundraising
- Philanthropy
- Scholarships and grants
- Travel and tourism
- Education
- Youth leadership
- Ecology
- Conservation
- Environment
- Pollution
- Sustainability
- Sanitation
- Disaster relief & crisis management
- News & knowledge
Example: Walk us through a specific example(s) of how this solution makes a difference; include its primary activities.
Case Study : Rainwater harvesting can recharge the declining groundwater levels in cities. Data from 11 rainwater-harvesting projects spread across Delhi and Gurgaon (Haryana) shows an increase of 5 to10 meters in the groundwater levels over two years. These are the results of a survey from May 2002 to May 2004 on the level of groundwater in rainwater harvesting sites, carried out by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).
Recharge wells: The advantages of this technique are:
. Rainwater is bacteriologically pure, free from organic matter and soft in nature.
. It helps in reducing the flood hazard.
. It improves the quality of existing ground water through dilution.
. The structures required are simple & economical
Impact: What is the impact of the work to date? Also describe the projected future impact for the coming years.
Impact to date:
* An agreement has been setup etween research institute between Polytecnic Negeri Bali and IDEP to impulse the construction and use of wells with PNB
being in charge of the necessary research and blueprint design, to analyze and complement existing data regarding the water situation in Bali and to assist into the implementation of the first wells
* The project has been endorsed by the Governor of Bali
* US 15000 raised through donations.
* Increased media coverage about the issue and BWP as the solution.
Projected future impact:
While the BWP program cannot fix the entire water depletion problem, it has the strong opportunity to significantly contribute to Bali's aquifers recharge and to impulse good-practice freshwater management at the provincial level - contributing to a blueprint for new and best practice water legislation.
Spread Strategies: Moving forward, what are the main strategies for scaling impact?
IDEP's technical partner, Polytecnic Negeri Bali will be in charge of designing and building the first wells before independent contractors to use the manual that will have been created. 136 recharge wells will be built within BWP and we hope that the technique will be expended in Bali province but also at a national level.
Ultimately, we hope to create a blueprint for other popular touristic destinations which success create water availability and quality issues.
Financial Sustainability Plan: What is this solution’s plan to ensure financial sustainability?
Financial Strategy:
* Individual donations (Crowdfunding)
* Corporate Social Responsibility
* Grants
BWP's funding strategy is primarily targeting businesses and major partnerships have already been established with a leading water park and a worldwide brand of natural body products.
Associated to individuals donations and grants, we hope that the success of our initial funding strategy will lead to government funding.
Marketplace: Who else is addressing the problem outlined here? How does the proposed project differ from these approaches?
The Bali governance is aware of the issue and will create a network of "biopori". However, their locations is not necessarily suitable and their small size will not allow high rate of aquifer replenishment.
A few consulting agencies are providing solutions for businesses to conserve water. However, the necessary awareness and education of the population is missing. More importantly, the restoration of the aquifer, now 60% dry will not be achieved from water savings.
Founding Story
Members of our team in 2012 came across two local governmental studies regarding the state of our provinces’s natural resources which sent us a shock wave, in particular in regards to the state of its freshwater supply.
Some articles raising alarms bells kept (and keep on) being published every once and then and local discussions have been taking place about freshwater over the years, both supply and quality wise - but we hadn’t realized the extent of the issue; so many ecosystems and livelihoods, both present and future depend on this natural resource - taken so long for granted.
We got so alarmed that we started to look seriously into the issue and more importantly on what was being done in the world to redress the situation.
Team
Dr. Ir. Lilik Sudiajeng, : PNB reseach Director
Florence Cattin: program facilitator
Julien Goalabré: communication & fundraising officer
Doni Marmer: ressource development
Avi Yosephine: program supervisor
Maitri Fischer: technical adviser
At this stage, the project is in its fundraising period prior to implementation.Thus, only the fundraising and communication officer is assigned full time, with all other team members being part time.
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