Framework for Lake Rejuvenation

Professor Margreet Zwarteveen, an internationally recognised scholar of water governance, irrigation, gender, and the politics of natural resources, speaks about how a technical solution always reflects a social choice.

Teju Kumar N, Assistant Engineer at ACIWRM, Government of Karnataka, explains how canal irrigation works, and why canals remain central to India’s agricultural water systems.

The Rural Futures programme was designed to answer a deceptively simple question: how can we increase rural income without degrading land and water quality? As WELL Labs turns 3, we look back at the programme’s journey and impact across Karnataka’s Raichur and Chikkaballapur districts.

Jay Famiglietti, a leading hydrologist and former NASA scientist joins host Veena Srinivasan to talk about the groundbreaking GRACE satellite mission and its role in transforming global hydrology.

Despite many women holding elected positions in Panchayats, the decision-making power largely rests with their male relatives. Our training sessions showed that reservation alone does not ensure empowerment; it also requires knowledge and solidarity.

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.