by Kashish Tandon, Nandan Mandayam, Varun Vyas Hebbalalu | Oct 25, 2024 | Urban Water / In the News
Rain batters India’s Bengaluru, Renews Haphazard Expansion Concerns Over the last four decades, the city has lost 88% of green cover, while areas covered by concrete have increased 11-fold, according to studies by the Indian Institute of Science. “The...
by Rashmi Kulranjan | Dec 6, 2023 | Urban Water / Op-eds
Drought in India: Can businesses play a role in collective action for water security? By intervening in meaningful ways to tackle India’s water crisis, businesses would not just mitigate operational and supply chain risk for themselves but have a wider, basin-level...
by Bhanu Sridharan | Oct 17, 2023 | Urban Water / In the News
Why Researchers are Developing a Balance Sheet for Bengaluru’s Water Citizen Matters spoke to urban hydrologists and researchers, Rashmi Kulranjan and Shashank Palur, about how Bengaluru can reduce dependence on external water sources, like Cauvery, and become water...
by Bhanu Sridharan | Oct 16, 2023 | Urban Water / In the News
Deluge or Drought: Water Researchers Explain How Bengaluru Can Build Resilience How can a mega city like ours handle the unpredictability of a climate change era monsoon, where we experience searing heat one month and flooded streets the next? As I write this, we have...
by Rashmi Kulranjan, Shashank Palur, Muhil Nesi | Oct 11, 2023 | Urban Water / Research
How Water Flows Through Bengaluru: Urban Water Balance Report Illustration depicting the flows and stores of water in Bengaluru city. Credit: Sarayu Neelakantan Bengaluru’s water problems may seem contradictory. In the height of summer, borewells and lakes dry up and...
