09 Sep 2025
Citizen Matters
Civic activists oppose government’s plan to shrink Bengaluru’s vital drain buffers
In an open letter to the Urban Development Department, a concerned citizen says drain buffer cuts defy court orders and climate plans, risking floods...
07 Dec 2024
Deccan Herald
Wastewater crisis brews in Bengaluru’s backyard
The sewage treatment plant attached to the Tippagondahalli reservoir lacks the capacity to treat the sewage water coming into the reservoir
22 Apr 2022
Citizen Matters
The story of Thippagondanahalli Dam on the Arkavathi
Thippagondanahalli Dam, once Bengaluru’s main drinking water source, is now defunct because Arkavathi river is polluted, and running dry.
10 Jan 2021
SANDRP
My mother is the river. The river is my mother.
This is time of immense grief and loss for me. Unable to face the harsh reality of my mother gasping for each breath in the ICU, I was drowning myself in work. Co-incidentally or so I think, I was working on a report analysing asphyxiation of Vrishabhavathi, Arkavathi and Cauvery…
18 Nov 2020
SANDRP
CITIZEN’S AGENDA FOR BELLANDUR-VARTHUR CATCHMENT
Following the trail of Bellandur and Varthur lakes rejuvenation, we discovered the rejuvenation process of the infamous burning lake of Bengaluru to be ad-hoc , illogical and not supported by well documented data and scientific facts...
24 Aug 2019
SANRP
Brewing Farmer Crisis in heavily polluted, frothing Byramangala Tank Region
Diverting sewage and desilting are cornerstones of all lake rejuvenation today. Some important questions loom large. Doesn’t this push the problem downstream to the next water body?
10 Jan 2019
Citizen Matters
Bengaluru is hot. Steel flyover will make it hotter, it needs to be dropped
An umbrella of hot air over the built-up area of the city is an 'urban heat-island’. There are many processes contributing to the temperature —air pollutants, vehicular movements, loss of tree cover and more. Steel flyover could be one of them.