Bengaluru is Staring at Possible Water Crisis: Report
Explaining the situation, Dr Veena Srinivasan, executive director, WELL Labs, said that the flow of water into the lakes has brought down its capacity to hold floodwater.
Over the last three years, Bengaluru has been struggling between two contradicting situations. While the city was struggling to manage the flash floods, owing to heavy rainfall in the 2021 and 2022 monsoon, this year the city is staring at a possible water crisis. Surprisingly, sometimes both situations occur simultaneously owing to heavy rainfalls in a short duration.
However, a recent report by WELL Labs, a research and innovation centre at the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), points out a single sustainable solution to both these issues– efficient reuse of wastewater.
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Sneha Ramesh for Deccan Herald.
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