by Smita Kumar, Cheshta Rajora, Rashmi Kulranjan | May 25, 2023 | Urban Water Blogs
Soak Up the Rain: How a ‘Sponge City’ Makes Urban Areas Climate Resilient Indian cities are rapidly urbanising and becoming more vulnerable to floods. Credit: Dibakar Roy on Unsplash Bengaluru, India’s high-tech IT capital, was in deep water even before the arrival of...
by Rashmi Kulranjan | Nov 7, 2022 | Urban Water Press & Media
Study on Cascading Lakes in Hebbal Explains Why Many Have Dried Up Challekere lake in Bengaluru. Photo by Rashmi Kulranjan The flooding in Bengaluru in October 2022 made national headlines as the ‘high-tech’ IT capital of India was ground to a halt. The severity of...
by Rashmi Kulranjan, Shashank Palur, Muhil Nesi | Nov 3, 2022 | Urban Water Blogs
Setting the Context — Water Governance in Bengaluru Cities are shaped by their water resources. Think of coastal cities that have evolved to become important trade centres, such as Mumbai and Cochin. There are riverine cities too. Many were capitals of past empires,...
by Rashmi Kulranjan, Shashank Palur, Muhil Nesi | Aug 22, 2022 | Urban Water Blogs
Why We Need Urban Water Balances Bengaluru’s water crisis — A tale of mismanagement Bengaluru’s water problems may sometimes seem contradictory. Stories of drying borewells and lakes compete with outcries about flooded streets. But these twin water problems are...
