Vijay Krishna
Vijay Krishna
Hydrology and quality of groundwater in and around Bangalore city - Review and excerpts from the report released in March 2011, by the Department of Mines and Geology (Govt of Karnataka)
Posted on 10 May, 2011 08:34 PMA welcome and important document, it brings up-to-date our understanding of the rapidly changing groundwater situation in Bangalore.
| Month | New borewells added each month | Borewells registered with BWSSB | Monthly % growth |
| Jan-09 | 91018 | ||
| Feb-09 | 924 | 91942 | 1.02 |
| Mar-09 | 705 | 92647 | 0.77 |
| Apr-09 | 965 | 93612 | 1.04 |
| May-09 | 1136 | 94748 | 1.21 |
| Jun-09 | 748 | 95496 | 0.79 |
| Jul-09 | 904 | 96400 | 0.95 |
| Aug-09 | 868 | 97268 | 0.90 |
| Sep-09 | 2062 | 99330 | 2.12 |
| Oct-09 | 838 | 100168 | 0.84 |
| Nov-09 | 875 | 101043 | 0.87 |
| Dec-09 | 2699 | 103742 | 2.67 |
| Jan-10 | 1759 | 105501 | 1.70 |
| Total as on Jan-2010 | 14483 | 105501 | 15.91 |
Growth of bore wells during February 2009 to January 2010 in Bangalore city
Takeaways from NEERI brainstorming workshop - Water technology developers and other stakeholders
Posted on 11 Oct, 2010 03:21 AMThe National Environment Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) is a premier CSIR laboratory. On September 7th, NEERI held a brainstorming workshop entitled "Interface between water technology developers and other stakeholders”. The purpose of the workshop was to engage better with other players involved with bringing scientific innovation in the water sector to reach large numbers of people who need the innovations. Attendees included scientists from many CSIR laboratories involved with water research, senior central government officials from the Rural Water Supply Department and the Dept of Science and Technology, State government officials, representatives from leading corporate houses including Eureka Forbes and Unilever and NGOs.
5th Global YES Summit, Rework The World - A trip report
Posted on 26 Jul, 2010 11:17 PMHad the opportunity to attend a recent worldwide gathering on the topic of youth and social entrepreneurship, which gave much food for thought. The event was the 5th Global YES Summit, entitled “ReWork The World”. Details of the gathering are at www.reworktheworld.org . The message there was that we need to do something radical in order to find productive work for the vast numbers of youth coming into the workforce especially in developing nations. The new jobs cannot be of the old variety, they need to be green, sustainable jobs. In other words, we need to ‘rework the world’. The conference was based on the premise that these new jobs will come out of social entrepreneurship.
Environment flows - Continuing the discussion
Posted on 21 Jul, 2010 12:41 AM
The Portal has earlier seen a debate on Environment Flows (the principle that we must leave some water in the rivers for the environment and ecosystem).
A new course (again) : Sharada Prased moving on to pursue a Phd
Posted on 14 Jul, 2010 09:19 PM
Way back in May 2007, C.S. Sharada Prasad ("CSP") joined Arghyam and India Water Portal and wrote this blog post entitled "A New course" at that time:
June 30th was Sharada Prasad's last day at Arghyam. He is moving on to do a Ph.D. with the Energy and Resources Group at the elite University of California, Berkeley. It is a testament to CSP's capability, motivation and drive that he secured this admission (he has no acrademic background in energy or resources, being a software engineer by training), and also secured a full teaching assistantship.
Book review: "The Big Necessity"
Posted on 19 Oct, 2009 08:23 AM
The Big Necessity - The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters By Rose George
New content on India Water Portal: Research studies of the National Institute of Hydrology
Posted on 10 May, 2009 09:01 AMPortal Staff member Vijay Krishna writes: