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HomeAuthorsNirmala Gowda

Articles by Nirmala Gowda

About Nirmala Gowda
Nirmala Gowda is a trustee of Bangalore Environment Trust.
Thippagondanahalli Dam and Reservoir
Water Supply

The story of Thippagondanahalli Dam on the Arkavathi

September 22, 2022 Nirmala Gowda

Thippagondanahalli Dam, once Bengaluru’s main drinking water source, is now defunct because Arkavathi river is polluted, and running dry.

Arkavathy river source
Environment

Vrishabhavathi, Arkavathi, Cauvery, my mother

June 15, 2021 Nirmala Gowda

Waiting in line to perform my mother’s last rites at Sumanahalli Crematorium, the familiar smell in the air took me towards the valley. The Vrishabhavathi river flowed dark and foul next to the crematorium.

Commute

Bengaluru is hot. Steel flyover will make it hotter, it needs to be dropped

January 10, 2019 Nirmala Gowda

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.


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