I had visited the site at Karnataka last year in April.It is a temple pond which had experienced algal bloom.This was arrested. Now the sludge at the bottom is there and the water has plenty of fish and a king fisher was quite busy!I gathered water at the top by skimming with a white paper cup. The water was crystal clear and quite refreshing and sweet to taste.In the several days and nights I spent there and one more night at a coffee estate in in the Kodagu (Coorg) hills, where the pond in the estate was also treated, there was absence of mosquitoes.The temple is located at Halekiranguru, Srirangapattana district a few hours by road and rail from Bengaluru. The ecological indicators and taste of sweet water are the observational proof. The sludge is inactive and the pond which has about 500,000 litres of water capacity, can be desilted, but obviously is not posing any sanitation/health hazard.However the temple has a well and water is drawn from that to the washroom and toilets and for cooking needs.Since the area is close to Talaikaveri in Mandya district where Cauvery originates, the water table is high.The temple is of Shri Anandalvar who had established Tirupathi Temple thousands of years ago.That is also the place of his original domicile in his life time.When the temple pond was dug up, the civic PWD authorities tried to dissuade the devout Vaishnavaites saying that such open ponds create and add to the mosquito menace! The water body at Maharashtra is a very big lake located in Keshavpuri, Yavtamal district, Maharashtra. This place is close to Gandhigram railway station and about 100 kms from Nagpur.The last leg is not traversible and one has to walk. I have not visited the place. Swami Valmiki has shown bench scale demos of treatment of highly toxic 3rd stage spent wash (after methanatiom) from distilleries in Maharashtra, a chemical factory of BASF located at Mangalore and more recently an industry located in Andhra Pradesh.I have spoken to persons who had done these studies. Due to extraneous problems, they were not implimented. In 2009 Karnataka Government, Department of Agriculture had released a document of his work in Kannada language. A scan copy is available of this and also of the pet bottles in which small quantities of industrial effluents were treated and shown at different stages.

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I had visited the site at Karnataka last year in April.It is a temple pond which had experienced algal bloom.This was arrested. Now the sludge at the bottom is there and the water has plenty of fish and a king fisher was quite busy!I gathered water at the top by skimming with a white paper cup. The water was crystal clear and quite refreshing and sweet to taste.In the several days and nights I spent there and one more night at a coffee estate in in the Kodagu (Coorg) hills, where the pond in the estate was also treated, there was absence of mosquitoes.The temple is located at Halekiranguru, Srirangapattana district a few hours by road and rail from Bengaluru. The ecological indicators and taste of sweet water are the observational proof. The sludge is inactive and the pond which has about 500,000 litres of water capacity, can be desilted, but obviously is not posing any sanitation/health hazard.However the temple has a well and water is drawn from that to the washroom and toilets and for cooking needs.Since the area is close to Talaikaveri in Mandya district where Cauvery originates, the water table is high.The temple is of Shri Anandalvar who had established Tirupathi Temple thousands of years ago.That is also the place of his original domicile in his life time.When the temple pond was dug up, the civic PWD authorities tried to dissuade the devout Vaishnavaites saying that such open ponds create and add to the mosquito menace! The water body at Maharashtra is a very big lake located in Keshavpuri, Yavtamal district, Maharashtra. This place is close to Gandhigram railway station and about 100 kms from Nagpur.The last leg is not traversible and one has to walk. I have not visited the place. Swami Valmiki has shown bench scale demos of treatment of highly toxic 3rd stage spent wash (after methanatiom) from distilleries in Maharashtra, a chemical factory of BASF located at Mangalore and more recently an industry located in Andhra Pradesh.I have spoken to persons who had done these studies. Due to extraneous problems, they were not implimented. In 2009 Karnataka Government, Department of Agriculture had released a document of his work in Kannada language. A scan copy is available of this and also of the pet bottles in which small quantities of industrial effluents were treated and shown at different stages.