by Sweekruthi K | Apr 1, 2023 | Urban Water / In the News
Wanted: A plan to quench Bengaluru’s thirst People washing their autorickshaws at an outlet of Bengaluru’s Jakkur lake. Photo by Rashmi Kulranjan Managing and utilising Bengaluru’s abundant rain to reduce the city’s piped water demand needs a...
by Shreya Nath | Sep 26, 2022 | Urban Water / Op-eds
How Open Data and Wastewater Reuse Can Prevent Flooding in Bengaluru A residential neighbourhood in central Bengaluru is waterlogged after the rains. Photo by: Shreya Nath On September 4th, Bengaluru experienced one of its wettest days on record, causing large parts...
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...
by Anjali V Raj, Priyanka Jamwal | Aug 19, 2021 | Urban Water / Research
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...
by WELL Labs Team | Sep 2, 2020 | Rural Futures / Research
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...
