by Dipu Rai | Mar 14, 2024 | Urban Water Press & Media
Thirsty Bengaluru: Water scarcity amid rapid urbanisation and climate change Politicians downplay the crisis, but experts warn that Bengaluru is on the brink of disaster. It faces a water crisis with a twist: dry borewells, empty lakes in summer, and floods during the...
by Garima Prasher | Feb 7, 2024 | Urban Water Press & Media
Why Construction Sites in Bengaluru Must Use Treated Wastewater Photo by Amine KM, Pexels Apartment complexes in the city with mandatory wastewater treatment facilities (STPs) are demanding regulations that will allow them to freely trade treated wastewater that is...
by Veena Srinivasan, Partik Kumar | Oct 20, 2023 | Community and Outreach Press & Media
The Atal Bhujal Yojana, Meant to Address Groundwater Depletion, is Missing a Key Part of Water Flows The water budgeting process carried out as part of Atal Bhujal Yojana by the gram panchayat of Karnataka’s Nonavinakere village, failed to account for imported surface...
by Sneha Ramesh | Oct 18, 2023 | Urban Water Press & Media
Bengaluru is Staring at Possible Water Crisis: Report Explaining the situation, Dr Veena Srinivasan, executive director, WELL Labs, said that the flow of water into the lakes has brought down its capacity to hold floodwater. Over the last three years, Bengaluru has...
by Sneha Ramesh | Oct 18, 2023 | Urban Water Press & Media
‘Bengaluru has Highest Number of Decentralised STPS in the World’ Experts say that reuse can be promoted only when the economics are planned well. With close to 2,644 decentralized Sewage Treatment Plants (STP), Bengaluru is one of the top cities that has...
