Is the STP in your Apartment Always Out of Order?

by Sahana Balasubramanian, Sneha Singh | Nov 25, 2021 | Urban Water Blogs

Is the STP in your Apartment Always Out of Order? A sewage treatment plant at Zed Woods, a residential building in Yelahanka, Bengaluru. Photo by Hari Prasad. In 2016, the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) mandated the installation of decentralised...

How Do We Manage Nutrient Levels in Urban Lakes?

by Anjali V Raj, Priyanka Jamwal | Aug 19, 2021 | Urban Water Publications

How Do We Manage Nutrient Levels in Urban Lakes? This article discusses how lake nutrients, specifically phosphorus, can be managed. This article is the sixth in a multi-part series on lakes that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of lake related problems in...

What Does “Sustainable” Food Production around Bangalore Entail?

by WELL Labs Team | Sep 2, 2020 | Rural Futures Publications

What Does “Sustainable” Food Production around Bangalore Entail? The agricultural landscape around Bangalore is experiencing environmental degradation – groundwater depletion, a decline in soil health and agrobiodiversity, conditions that are hardly conducive to...

Bangalore’s Lakes: What Role do Citizens Play?

by Veena Srinivasan, Apoorva R | Mar 22, 2020 | Urban Water Publications

Bangalore’s Lakes: What Role do Citizens Play? This publication is the third in a multi-part series on lakes that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of lake-related problems in Bangalore and approaches to address them. It describes the crucial role played...

How Do We Solve Bangalore’s Lake Problem?

by Veena Srinivasan, Apoorva R, Priyanka Jamwal, Sumita Bhattacharyya | Mar 15, 2020 | Urban Water Publications

How Do We Solve Bangalore’s Lake Problem? This article is the second in a multi-part series on lakes that aims to provide a comprehensive overview of lake related problems in Bengaluru and approaches to address them. This article explains how these problems are...