by Sanjana Shashidhar | May 23, 2025 | Urban Water Press & Media
The Greater Bengaluru Authority Must Embrace River-Centric Planning Photo credit: Rashmi Kulranjan With a population now touching 14.4 million and growing at 2.76 percent annually, the pressure on Bengaluru’s water system has reached alarming levels. According to WELL...
by Sneha Singh, Shashank Palur | Aug 28, 2024 | Urban Water Blogs
Grey to Blue: What Can Bengaluru Learn From Chennai on Tertiary Treatment of Wastewater This is the water pumping station at Porur lake. Credit: Shashank Palur. Climate change is exacerbating water woes in Indian cities. For example, Chennai — like many rapidly...
by Veena Srinivasan, Shreya Nath | Aug 16, 2024 | Urban Water Press & Media
Making Every Drop Count Cities are growing faster than they can cope and are growing more vulnerable to extreme weather. With Bengaluru’s ever-escalating water problems becoming a recurrent, annual feature, innovative new thinking and plans are the need of the...
by Sneha Ramesh | Jun 30, 2024 | Urban Water Press & Media
Cauvery Stage V draws to a close; what next for BWSSB? Given that water supply projects take a long time and are financially heavy, experts and residents suggest that the BWSSB should begin work on the Cauvery Stage VI soon by picking up the learnings from the Cauvery...
by Sravasti Datta | May 17, 2024 | Urban Water Press & Media
For home-buyers in Bengaluru, a checklist to assess water security According to the Water, Environment, Land, and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs’ Bengaluru urban water balance report, freshwater demand in Bengaluru is approximately 2,632 million litres per day (MLD). The...
