Presentations

Why all (Urban) Hydrology is Social Hydrology? Evidence from Bengaluru, India

Location: University of Chicago, Delhi campus
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Authors: Deepak Malghan, Vishal Mehta, A. Nehra, R. Goswami, E. Kemp-Benedict, S. Muddu, C. Mathur, B. Thomas, V. Srinivasan, D. Wong, M. Gautam, V.Vivek, D. Sharma
Presenter: Dr. Deepak Malghan

Dr. Deepak Malghan was invited to present at the U. Chicago – Delhi campus EPIC India seminar series.

This presentation covered many aspects of the research team’s work, from water demand surveys to groundwater sampling and modeling, to initial results from the survey.

Can technology make urban social hydrology legible? Water wisdom, citizen science, and democratic deliberation

Location: Hotel Taj West End, Bangalore
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
Authors: Deepak Malghan and Vishal Mehta
Presenter: Dr. Deepak Malghan

Dr. Deepak Malghan was an invited speaker at the Confederation of Indian Industry’s Annual Water Conference titled

“Indusry-Government-Community Partnerships for Sustainable Water Management”

Understanding Bangalore as a Coupled Social-Ecological System: The Water-Energy Nexus

Location: ATREE campus, Bangalore
Date: Monday, November 9, 2015
Authors: Vishal Mehta, Deepak Malghan, and Muddu Sekhar
Presenter: Dr. Vishal Mehta

At the invitation of ATREE, Dr. Mehta presented the coupled social hydrology of Bangalore as part of ATREE’s ongoing monthly seminar event. The event served as a dialogue for researchers working on Bangalore’s water crisis from different perspectives.

Urban metabolism in Bangalore and Bangkok: findings and future directions

Location: Wipro campus, Bangalore
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2014
Authors: Vishal K. Mehta
Presenter: Vishal K. Mehta

At the invitation of Wipro staff, Dr. Mehta presented a comparison of the water metabolism of Bangalore and Bangkok, with a focus on groundwater policy development in Bangkok and what Bangalore could learn from the same.

Title
Urban metabolism in Bangalore and Bangkok: findings and future directions

Urban metabolism in Bangalore and Bangkok: findings and future directions

Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Monday, January 27, 2014

At the 2014 SEI science forum, held in Stockholm Sweden, SEI researchers from the US and Asia centres presented the preliminary findings of a comparison of urban metabolism in Bangalore, India, and Bangkok, Thailand.

The goals of this comparative work are to compare these two big Asian cities using the metabolic framework, in order to bring about a cross-fertilization of policy ideas.

Understanding Bangalore as a Coupled-Social Ecological System: The Water-Energy Nexus

Location: Bangalore International Centre
Date: Monday, December 9, 2013

Dr. Vishal Mehta was invited to present the Bangalore Urban Metabolism work to a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, government officials. The presentation covered work to date documeting the growth of Bangalore, water supply status, critical knowledge gaps and how coupled social-ecological models can be used to understand the dynamic connections between water use and the health of the city’s ecological foundations.

The event was moderated by Mr. V. Balasubramanian, former Additional Chief Secretary of the Govt. of Karnataka.

Groundwater Impacts of Water Consumption Patterns in Bengaluru, India

Location: Aurangabad, India
Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012
Authors: Vishal K. Mehta, M. Sekhar,Eric Kemp-Benedict
Presenter: Manish Gautam (ME candidate, IISc.)

The team presented ongoing research on groundwater modeling for Bangalore at the International Ground Water Conference (IGWC 2012), in Aurangabad, India.

Title
Groundwater Impacts of Water Consumption Patterns in Bengaluru, India

The coupled social-hydrology of Bangalore city, India

Location: San Francisco
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012

Title
The coupled social-hydrology of Bangalore city, India

Authors
Muddu Sekhar, Vishal K. Mehta, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Deepak Malghan, Soeren Gebbert

Venue
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2012 Meeting, San Francisco

Presenter
Vishal K. Mehta

Suggested citation
Sekhar, M., Mehta, V.K., Kemp-Benedict, E., Malghan, D., Gebbert, S. ” The coupled social-hydrology of Bangalore city, India”. AGU Fall 2012 Meeting, San Francisco. Dec 6, 2012. Poster #H23F-1459

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Web-based urban Metabolic Mapping for Bangalore, India

Location: San Francisco
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Authors: Vishal K. Mehta, Douglas Wang, Eric Kemp-Benedict, Deepak Malghan
Venue: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 2012 Meeting, San Francisco
Presenter: Vishal K. Mehta

Title
Web-based Urban Metabolic Mapping for Bangalore, India

Suggested citation:
Mehta, V.K., Wang, D., Kemp-Benedict, E. and Malghan, D. “Web-based urban metabolic mapping for Bangalore, India”. AGU Fall 2012 Meeting, San Francisco. Dec 4th, 2012. Poster #IN51D-1715.

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