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 Veena Srinivasan, Sneha Singh | Sep 20, 2023 | Urban Water / Op-eds
India is running out of phosphorus. Does the solution lie in our sewage? Photo by Nirjon Nakib, Pexels. Phosphorus is an essential ingredient in fertilisers as well as a major pollutant. We need to address both problems The problem with the fertilisation of land is as...
by Zumbish | Aug 7, 2023 | Rural Futures / In the News
70-80% Indian farmers depend on groundwater; solar irrigation inadequate to change crop choices: Report Policies favouring growth of staple water-intensive cereal crops in different states have played major role in irrigation expansion India’s looming groundwater...
by WELL Labs Team | Jul 31, 2023 | Rural Futures / Blogs
We Need More Agricultural R&D: Dr Ashok Gulati at WELL Labs Launch Agricultural economist Dr Ashok Gulati delivers the keynote address at the launch of WELL Labs at the India International Centre in New Delhi on July 26. WELL Labs was formally launched on July...
by Smita Kumar, Cheshta Rajora, Rashmi Kulranjan | Jun 13, 2023 | Urban Water / Blogs
A Visionary Architect and a New Growth Model: What’s Behind the Rise of Sponge Cities in China? Dong’an Wetland Park in the city of Sanya in China’s Hainan Island, an example of a sponge city designed by Kongjian Yu. Credit: Turenscape Kongjian Yu was only...
