Yash Dave

science devotee

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@GunjurCharan @Gunjur @ArvindLBJP @MALimbavali Any update on land acquisition of privately owned properties opposite to temple?

[ANMOL JAMWAL @jammypants4]

#DelhiCrime Season 3 close ups be like!

[Namma Balagere. @BalagereConnect]

Venice is built in #BrandBengaluru by our visionary leaders and highly efficient & honest @BBMPCOMM officials , plan your commute only through boats #IThub #Balagere

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Back in 1911, when the British shifted the capital to Delhi, Kolkata froze in time. It’s a museum on wheels

[Sanjiv Kapoor @TheSanjivKapoor]

A megacity with high population density that has transformed within one generation from a "third world" city with constant honking, litter, and general chaos into a thriving, clean, and disciplined metropolis despite national political uncertainty. Lots to learn from it! #Bangkok

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@binayp @MTF_Mobility @Clementcjayakum please look into this

[Sahana @sahana_srik]

Visited 20 breweries over 16 days on the Bangalore Craft crawl, 2024. Going in chronological order of last to first, and my favourites and the hamper given for finishing the crawl are at the end of the thread.
Here's my story
(longish thread) two parts, Part 1

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@IndianExpress We have a cheaper option, which serves buffet in ₹2

[Jibin Jayaram @Jibin1982]

Please help us!! We don’t want to take law in our hands.Fault is that, we are fighting against an alleged association formed using fake document to cheat us, lack of acc stmnt/misrepresented court cases.. Now threatening to cut maintenance.Pls read the details in the screen shot

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

Bangalore’s potable water supply – the math is failing

The issue of Bangalore’s potable water supply used to be an obsession of mine when I was a young journalist in the city. I studied and wrote about it a lot from a landscape perspective. This obsession also came from an early childhood in the city that was water strained and all of us kids used to fill every container we knew with water when there was supply!

Summer 2024 looks bad – very bad, East Bangalore is going to be worst affected with water shortages. And that got me crunching the numbers again after many years. This is not just about one failed monsoon in 2023. The potable water supply scenario of the city is poised to enter negative territory even with normal or surplus monsoons in the future. Read on…

There are no exact estimates for potable water demand in Bangalore but its estimated based on current supply. Currently the BWSSB supplies ~ 1450 Million Litres Daily (MLD) + the city extracts almost half of that 700 MLD (crude guesstimate could be way more!) from borewells. Picture this – half a daily Cauvery supply of borewell water is extracted daily in Bangalore!
Most new property developments in Bangalore rely 100% on groundwater. Even our apartment in Bangalore, built in 2002, received piped water supply only in 2014-15 (lag of almost 15 years). At least 1/3rd of the urban areas and most peripheral urban villages still don’t have piped water. Piped water supply has been lagging in the city since – 1960s! Incrementally at great expense the Cauvery river, 90 kms south of Bangalore has been tapped and water pumped almost 1000m uphill to Bangalore.

Bangalore’s water is probably among the most energy inefficient on the planet, every drop is pumped up using many megawatts of electricity – either from the Cauvery or underground.

Since 1974, it has been a forlorn chase when demand forecasts and supply never meet. One thing is the BWSSB has always been good at is showing how big is the shortfall. It’s an organization in an unenviable position. It spends almost 80 pc of its revenue on electricity to pump water and knows that soon there won’t be any more it can pump.

There is a Cauvery Stage V water supply that might begin this year supplying a maximum of ~750MLD in phases, but that is the END. The Cauvery is fully tapped out for now and can’t spare a drop more for Bangalore.
So that is 1450 + 750 = ~2200 MLD (in a normal monsoon year) from the Cauvery + ~700 MLD (negatively trending) from groundwater.

The problem here is that the BWSSB only estimates demand from ‘planned developments’ and the Bangalore’s growth has been anything but that. Till 2021 the estimated planned demand was 2100 MLD and that will be met by 2025 when Cauvery Stage V is fully ON. The unplanned demand is being catered to by groundwater.

Total demand right now is ~ 2900+ MLD (the BWSSB predicts this ‘planned for’ in 2031 btw!). The way consumption is growing in the city, it might need 3200-3400 MLD before 2030, which the BWSSB only forecasts by 2041. You see the demand supply gap widening massively? The BWSSB itself now says they don’t have any more planned supply coming. Trust me, there is no other perineal water source that is currently being planned to be tapped for Bangalore at least for the next decade.

Cauvery is fixed at 2200 MLD. Where is 1000+ MLD going to come from by 2030? Because borewells are drying up, the ~700 MLD being extracted right now is diminishing. You need mega surplus monsoons to replenish and grow groundwater table. Is that going to happen regularly? Thus, every bad monsoon from now will only be a bigger disaster – less water in Cauvery + even lesser underground. In the next 3-4 years if you have a severe drought and lose 1,000+ MLD, what kind of rationing or prayers can save the population?

This summer is going to be a test for the Karnataka government. Bangalore competes for drinking water from the Cauvery with Mysore and irrigation needs of the entire area fed by KRS Dam. In election season this summer whose needs must be prioritized? There is already a clamor from farmers that they need water for standing crops and in the past protestors (and water thieves) have damaged the pipes that supply water to Bangalore. Will the needs of farmers be sacrificed again to supply more Cauvery water to Bangalore by 2030 in Stage VI, VII…?

If you plan to live in Bangalore for the long term – start answering this question NOW – where will I get water from in 2035? As of now the government hasn’t a clue about this, this problem is being kicked down the road.

My intention in writing this is not to create a doomsday scenario but to make people aware of the problem that has been well-discussed and written about. 2024 summer is the trailer for bigger crises ahead.

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PS: 😆 In a decade North Indians in Bangalore might start heading back north - because even with effects of climate change and 'not so awesome weather', the Gangetic plains will still be water surplus for eons!

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

Irrelevance is the new retirement.

Deloitte India with a retirement age of 62 years, gave golden handshake to 35 partners above 55.

They are removing those who have their past behind them and adding those who have their future ahead of them.

Guess who all will follow. Right, everyone!

When I came in, no one took you seriously until you had grey hair. Age got respect, credibility and deference.

Just when I got there, someone changed the rules of the game!

Now I know what Charlie Chaplin meant, “Time is my only enemy”.

So you see people trying to cover up their age.
The hair gets blacker.
Cosmetic procedures, shiny new wheels, trendy lingo.
In short my generation moved from trying to impress those older than us to those younger to us! And we all know the former is probable the latter are near impossible to please.

Ask anyone who has retired. They don’t miss the money. They miss the routine, meetings, travel, ringing phones- what they may have complained about. As humans we struggle for relevance. That our life matters. Without it there is void.

Along this time, you meet more Doctors than DJs. You may be paying heavy cost of your kids higher education and you realise that time is running out on you.

Henry Thoreau said, “Most men live lives of quiet desperation and they go to their graves with the song still in them.”

In your fifties there are three possibilities.
One is disappointment of not getting that S Class Merc or you got it but think about what you missed in its chase and the third is laughing at the stupidity of ever wanting one. 

कभी किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता
कहीं ज़मीन तो कहीं आसमान नहीं मिलता

No one gets everything, sometimes you get success but failed relationships, kids grew up and parents grew old without you and sometimes you get that right but fall short of success.

What’s funny is that growing old is compulsory but growing up seems optional.

I marvel at people’s ability to be childish, egoistic and ready to fight on trivial things. How did they miss the point of life!

Long back I stopped buying tickets to other people’s dramas. I see all around me with the attitude of the Polish adage, “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
A delayed flight, people venting on counter staff, cutting lines to board an aircraft early. Everything is stressful and everything is funny- depends on our lens.

Ageing well is moving from being a noisy mountain stream in your teens to a deep, calm ocean.

Fifties our ancients called Vanprastha ashram. Facing the forest. I have a different take to it. I think in fifties, one needs to build a Version 2, find our joie di vivre and burn the candle at both ends. Do what you need to do. Sing that song. If not now, when!

The pain of failure is less than the pain of regret. Go for it. Fifties is the new twenties with thirty years of experience! If you are in your twenties or thirties take it from me that time is a thief, it slips away. Buddha was right - The trouble is you think you have time!

Enjoy life to the fullest, as it comes....

😎😍😎😍😎

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@Utsaaaaav @stats_feed Na chale avu

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

Sarpatta Parambarai, Jay Bhim and Asuran aren't just socially impactful, they are great entertainers too. It's a loss to Indian cinema if they didn't get due recognition at the national level. Anyways, congratulations to Nalasopara ke Nolan @vivekagnihotri ji. 💐

[Mimansa Shekhar @mimansashekhar]

#AshutoshGowariker played an NRI - Mohan in episode America Return (Vapasi) of #ZeeTV anthology #YuleLoveStories (1993-94). He comes to meet his Kaveri Amma (late Kishori Ballal herself)
Do you think this inspired him to make #Swades (2004)?
#ShahRuhKhan
Here's an edited clip 👇

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@jammypants4 Should’ve been a full frame song before end credits(maybe a bit shorter)

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@east_bengaluru @BBMPCOMM @DKShivakumar Logical solutions is to get the 80ft CDP road completely build and get the ROB constructed rather than focusing on RUB

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@mannupaaji @JioCinema Diversification of stream in multiple containers i.e regional commentary and camera angles is a great idea

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@MTF_Mobility @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP @manoharGABJP @JCREDDYPK @Clementcjayakum Planned end date includes varthur elevated corridor?

[Yash Dave @yashjd10]

@MTF_Mobility @ItsAi_Science @MALimbavali @ArvindLBJP @manoharGABJP @JCREDDYPK @Clementcjayakum @RisingVarthur @BalagereConnect @SaveNammaPBC @east_bengaluru