How Satellite Tech Imaged the Global Groundwater Crisis with James (Jay) Famiglietti

Karan Misquitta unpacks the long and complex history of watershed development in India – from its origins in colonial famine relief programmes to its evolution into large-scale public policy and, more recently, technology-driven interventions.

The Urban Water Programme was designed to tackle the issues of water security and resilience in urban areas. As WELL Labs turns 3, we look back at the journey and impact this programme has had on Bengaluru’s water story.

In part two of this seven-part series on learnings from three years of running WELL Labs, Veena Srinivasan shares how the organisation stays accountable.

WELL Labs is three years old. Veena Srinivasan, our Executive Director, writes about the journey, and what we have learnt from it in a series of blogs. This is part one of seven.

Hydrogeologist Vivek Grewal unpacks the basic science of groundwater and how groundwater behaves in the Indo-Gangetic region.

Raichur’s resilience to climate change is not built on a single path, but through the conscious navigation of multiple, co-existing hydro-social pathways. This makes the landscape of possibilities visible so that communities, researchers, and policymakers can together decide which futures to pursue.

Veena Srinivasan and Gayathri Muraleedharan join host Pavan Srinath to unpack the nature of Bangalore’s water crisis — what caused the severe summer crisis of 2024, why similar crises may recur, and what the city can do to avoid lurching from one groundwater emergency to the next.

India Research Corps aims to close the evidence gap in the water sector by curating critical research questions that have a clear pathway to impact, and matching them to early-career research scholars, who then produce action-oriented knowledge.

Published in Research Matters

This study investigates how upstream–downstream interactions, temporal changes and human interventions shape lake behavior and function.