South India’s Groundwater explained with Vivek Grewal

In the second episode of The WELL Labs Show, host Pavan Srinath sits down with Syamkrishnan P Aryan, Senior Program Manager at WELL Labs, to unpack the world of cooperatives in India.

Host Veena Srinivasan speaks with Henk Ovink, world’s first “Water Diplomat”, about global cooperation, imagined redundancy, and the future of global water governance.

In the first episode of The WELL Labs Show, host Pavan Srinath sits down with Dr. Veena Srinivasan, socio-hydrologist and Executive Director at WELL Labs, to unpack the science behind Bengaluru’s lakes.

The WELL Labs Show features rich conversations on water, environment, land and livelihoods, from the people and partners of WELL Labs.

In this episode, host Veena Srinivasan speaks with Richard Taylor who has spent decades studying groundwater systems across East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and the UK, and has helped reshape how scientists understand recharge, resilience, and climate impacts underground.

In this episode, host Veena Srinivasan and guest co-host Nirat Bhatnagar of Dalberg Advisors are joined by two remarkable guests: Dr. Sejal Worah, Programme Director at WWF India, and Dr. Kate Brauman, Lead Scientist at the Global Water Security Center, University of Alabama.

In this episode, Esha Zaveri and Veena Srinivasan zoom in to India’s use of urea for agriculture, large fertiliser subsidies, low nitrogen use efficiency, groundwater exposure, and the challenge of legacy nitrogen that slows water-quality recovery.

Alan M MacDonald, Head of Groundwater at the British Geological Survey, joins host Veena Srinivasan on Season 2, Episode 6 of the Water Data Podcast

It brings us profound grief to write or even think of Soil Vasu in the past tense, but someone as special as him should be celebrated openly so that his legacy lives on.

Host Veena Srinivasan talks to Dr Murugesu Sivapalan about his rich career of starting out with hydrological modeling, and early explorations into collecting and analysing hydrological data to infer how complex catchment and river basin systems functioned.