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Reducing fossil fuel more beneficial than afforestation

Deccan Herald – July 10, 2023

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Bengaluru to get flood prediction system soon

Deccan Herald – Sept 16, 2022

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ICWaR student Mr. Shairik Sengupta is assisting Bangalore slum dwellers to get clean water following the flood incidents.

This is a crowd-funded initiative led by Mr. Sengupta where several ICWaR students participated.

Bangalore Mirror – Sept 13, 2022

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Reducing global warming: Could reflecting sunlight back into space work?

Deccan Herald – Oct 01 2021

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Public information session organized by Krishna AchutaRao, IIT-D

Sep 2, 2021

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‘Extreme weather to be more common, Delhi-NCR must invest in waterbodies’

Times of India, Delhi editionAug 22, 2021

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Karnataka will see 10-25% increase in rainfall in coming years: scientists

The Hindu, Bangalore Edition – August 15, 2021

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Climate report unlikely to lead to extra efforts

Hindustan Times – Aug 10, 2021

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Geoengineering marks scientific gains in U.N. report on dire climate future

Reuters – August 10, 2021

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Global warming will hit us faster, UN body sees temperatures rising by 1.5°C in next 20 years

Economic times – August 10, 2021

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Contamination in Water Distribution Systems

Rajya Sabha TV – Jul 3, 2021

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Indian Cities Prepare for Floods with Predictive Technology

15 June 2021

This was featured on EoS by American Geophysical Union

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Kerala Floods

March 30, 2021

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Has urbanisation led to increased precipitation in cities?

This was published on IISc main website in the Featured Research section.

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Namma Bengaluru: Resources being pooled to predict rain and tackle floods

August 20, 2019

IISc, Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre and other organisations will analyse data from ongoing projects to get accurate information to provide location-specific flood forecasting within the city to help mitigate floods. Find link to the full article here.


IISc to map out 50-year climate change impact

March 06, 2019

The study, led by Professor Pradeep Mujumdar (Department of Civil Engineering, IISc) in collaboration with Telangana State Development Planning Society (TSDPS), will guide the Telangana State Government on climate change and its impact on water availability and agriculture. Find link to the full article here


Monitoring drains to generate flood alerts

August 31, 2018

Karnataka State Natural Disaster Management Centre in collaboration with IISc is installing sensors at outlets and inlets of major lakes. Find link to the full article here.


Extreme rainfall leaves cities floundering (by S. GopiKrishna Warrier)

August 28, 2017

Independence Day was unusually wet and waterlogged for residents of Bengaluru in Karnataka. Heavy rains started near midnight when they were asleep, and by morning, it had poured 128 mm. Localities in and around Koramangala in the southern part of the city went under water, with parked vehicles nearly submerging. Find link to the full article here.


The precarious situation of India’s water problem (by Hari Pulakkat).

April 02, 2017

Water is a precious but dwindling resource for India, but till a decade ago the country had very few hydrologists who could model the state of its resources using advanced methods. As more scientists began to study ground water, river flows and evapotranspiration, they ran into a serious problem that affected the quality of their work. The country’s water data were largely hidden from public view, and what were available were poor or untrustworthy. Find link to the full article here.


Don’t rain on the monsoon parade (by PP Mujumdar).

It’s time to start looking for alternative ways of managing an all too possible drought. Topping the list has to be a more responsible management of water resources during non-summer periods. Water must be respected as a precious resource, not a commodity that can be taken for granted, so that we have adequate water for the summer. Find link to the full article here.


Team studying cauvery basin hydrology to predict demand. (by Mihika Basu)

December 08, 2016

Stating that there has been a severe water shortage in severe water shortage in several pockets of the Cauvery river basin over a period of time, researchers from Bengaluru, Hyderabad and the UK, have started a first-of-its-kind comprehensive project to study the hydrology (rainfall, water flow) of the entire basin and look at predicting water demands for the next few years based on the effects of climate change, type of crops, amount of water used for agricultural purpose and the extent of urbanisation. Find link to the article here.


IISc, Japanese firm join hands to study agriculture sector.

October 09, 2016

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Extreme rainfall not because of global factors: study.

24 February, 2016

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Global warming signals still unidentifiable in extreme rainfall over India. 

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Present methods to predict droughts may be unreliable under climate change.

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Climate change affects Ganga significantly, finds IISc study.

March 24, 2015

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How much water should be released from a reservoir?

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