The Mallapalli Lake Vision Document (LVD) is a comprehensive documentation of the participatory process of consensus-building for lake rejuvenation, co-created by residents, farmers, fisherfolk, and civic agencies.
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Framework for Lake Rejuvenation
The Lake Rejuvenation Framework offers a structured, science-backed, and community-informed roadmap for lake rejuvenation. The framework is co-created by WELL Labs, Friends of Lakes, research institutions, civil society organizations, government agencies, and citizen groups of Bengaluru.
Three Years of Designing Water Resilience
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.
World Water Day 2026: Understanding the liquid asset with Dr Veena Srinivasan
Published in Research Matters
Cascading urban lakes: how spatial, temporal, and anthropogenic characteristics control lake behavior
This study investigates how upstream–downstream interactions, temporal changes and human interventions shape lake behavior and function.
How India Can Promote Nature-Based Solutions: Lessons from Singapore, China, and the European Union
In this insight brief, we examine how Singapore, China, and the European Union facilitated research, policies, integrated governance, funding, and participatory planning for the large-scale adoption of nature-based solutions
In the News | Closing the Loop: Strategies for Decentralised Water Reuse in India
Published in Various Media Outlets
Strategies to Catalyse Safe, Efficient, and Reliable Decentralised Water Reuse in Bengaluru
WELL Labs has partnered with the Swiss Federal Aquatic Institute of Science and Technology (Eawag) to research decentralised wastewater treatment and reuse and enable their adoption in Bengaluru for improved water security
WELL Labs Featured in Discovery Channel
The episode highlights innovators restoring rivers, protecting ecosystems, and transforming India’s water conservation landscape.
Shreya Nath Featured in the Climate Charche Podcast
The episode unpacks Bengaluru’s water crisis and its links to climate change.
The Value of Green: Why Cities Must Invest in Nature-Based Solutions
Published in Citizen Matters
WELL Labs Featured in ‘Down the Drain’ by Nitya Misra
Down the Drain is a documentary on Bengaluru’s sewage system
Environmentalists concerned over size-based buffer zones for water bodies
Published in Mongabay India
Barriers to Mainstreaming Nature-Based Solutions in Urban India
Our study delves into the barriers to the large-scale adoption of nature-based solutions in Indian cities, synthesises insights from other geographies, and explores solutions
Bengaluru: BWSSB sets up expert panel under retd IISc prof to boost reuse of treated water
Published in Deccan Herald
Why Nature-Based Solutions Must Balance Ecology, Economy, and Community
Nature-based solutions offer ecological, social, and economic benefits, but focusing on one while neglecting the others can lead to inefficient, unjust, or even harmful outcomes
Bengaluru’s water woes: How to deal with poor water quality
Published in Times of India
New zonal drainage master plan on the cards to tackle flooding in Bengaluru
Published in The Hindu
Whitefield drains expose severity of Bengaluru’s stormwater crisis
Published in Deccan Herald
Incorporating Nature-Based Solutions to Manage Flooding: Transforming Bengaluru’s Manyata Tech Park
With conventional engineering solutions failing to control flooding in Bengaluru, we assess the potential of nature-based solutions through a modelling exercise