Priyanka Jamwal is a fellow at the Centre for Environment and Development, ATREE. Her work focuses on the identification of contaminant sources in surface water bodies, modelling the fate and transport of contaminants in urban hydrological systems and assessing the risk to human health due to exposure to contaminants.
One of the characteristic features of a lake is its colour. You may have noticed that the water in many lakes in Bengaluru is green, and not blue, as you might have imagined it to
Bellandur and Varthur lakes release huge amounts of foam almost every year, especially around the monsoons. Why does this happen, and what can we do to stop it?
Raw sewage, industrial effluents, solid waste dumping, can all lead to build-up of flammable gases in lakes. Why do these issues persist and what can be done to resolve these?
