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December 2011
5th Annual Water Management Workshop, University of California – Davis
Presenter Vishal K. Mehta, PhD Title Urban hydrology: examples from East Africa and India
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AGU Fall Meeting
Presenter Vishal K. Mehta, PhD Title Web-based urban metabolic mapping for Bangalore, India Download Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, December 6th, 2012
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International Ground Water Conference (IGWC 2012), in Aurangabad, India. The team will present ongoing research on groundwater modeling for Bangalore, India.
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SEI Science Forum 2013
Title Cities as tightly coupled social-ecological systems: the water-energy nexus of Bangalore city, India. Presenters Vishal K. Mehta and Eric Kemp-Benedict Venue SEI Science Forum 2013, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract India’s 370 million urban population exceeds the total population of all countries except China. Water supply has not kept up with increasing demand. No city receiving 24x7 water supply. As utilities reach farther out to increase supply, their energy consumption and costs are increasing, even as private self-supply from groundwater pumping…
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Water in the Arkavathy sub-basin
Dr. Deepak Malghan has been invited to present at a dissemination workwshop "Water in the Arkavathy sub-basin: status, concerns and future under climate change" He will present in the session on Water Governance, in a talk titled "Urban water supply and management in Bangalore".
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“Why all urban hydrology is social hydrology”
WHY ALL URBAN HYDROLOGY IS SOCIAL HYDROLOGY? EVIDENCE FROM BENGALURU, INDIA Dr. Deepak Malghan Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore Abstract: One of the principal concerns of hydrology is to characterise the dynamic water balance in a watershed. Rapidly burgeoning urban agglomerations in Asia present a unique challenge to hydrology as natural hydrological cycles are severely perturbed by human activity. Bangalore receives an average rainfall of about 1800 MLD (million litres a day) but also imports 1450 MLD of river…
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