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)
The Department of Mines and Geology, Government of Karnataka recently released a report on the hydrology and quality of groundwater in and around Bangalore city.
Posted on 10 May, 2011 08:34 PM


 A welcome and important document, it brings up-to-date our understanding of the rapidly changing groundwater situation in Bangalore.

MonthNew borewells added each monthBorewells registered with BWSSBMonthly % growth
Jan-09 91018 
Feb-09924919421.02
Mar-09705926470.77
Apr-09965936121.04
May-091136947481.21
Jun-09748954960.79
Jul-09904964000.95
Aug-09868972680.90
Sep-092062993302.12
Oct-098381001680.84
Nov-098751010430.87
Dec-0926991037422.67
Jan-1017591055011.70
Total as on Jan-20101448310550115.91

Growth of bore wells during February 2009 to January 2010 in Bangalore city

Takeaways from NEERI brainstorming workshop - Water technology developers and other stakeholders
Engaging better with different stakeholders involved with bringing scientific innovation in the water sector to reach large numbers of people who need the innovations.
Posted on 11 Oct, 2010 03:21 AM

The 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
The YES Summit: Working toward a new world for the youth
Posted on 26 Jul, 2010 11:17 PM

Had 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
Environment Flows are simple, yet devilishly difficult to achieve. Continuing the discussion on environment flows
Posted on 21 Jul, 2010 12:41 AM
As It Flows Cartoon
 
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
testament to C. Sharada Prasad's capability, motivation and drive that he secured him an admission with the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
Posted on 14 Jul, 2010 09:19 PM

C.S. Sharada Prasad's photo

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"
Two reviews of this very good book are below; one by Anuradha Hegde and one by Vijay Krishna Posted on 19 Oct, 2009 08:23 AM

Cover of "The Big Necessity"   

 

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
New content on India Water Portal: Research studies of the National Institute of Hydrology
Posted on 10 May, 2009 09:01 AM

Portal Staff member Vijay Krishna writes: