Cascading tanks are a system of small man-made tanks containing river or rainwater run off that drain into a large reservoir. Founded during the Vijayanagara Empire, cascading tanks in Karnataka…
Doddammana Kere lake, located in Chikkaballapura district in Karnataka, is more than 400 years old and is one of over 4,000 man-made lakes built during the period of the Vijayanagara…
Approximately 2,800 people are bitten by snakes in India every day, and thousands of snakes are killed in conflict situations with humans. The impact of interactions between humans and snakes…
Unlike the polluted waste management sites that we commonly find in our cities and villages, material recovery facilities (MRFs) process and sort segregated dry waste to derive maximum revenue from…
Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, people from the economically weaker section (EWS) are provided with permanent houses that have basic amenities such as toilets, water, and electricity. Jyothi,* a…
In the run-up to Karnataka’s state election on May 10, Reap Benefit—a nonprofit that works with youth and local governance—launched a Citizen War Room, comprising a toll-free helpline and a…
“Earlier, I used to pick up waste from the streets and sell it to scrap shops,” says Indumathi, who now runs three dry waste collection centres (DWCC) in Bengaluru and…
The poor health of Adivasi communities in the remote regions of Karnataka can be attributed to lack of access to basic amenities such as clean drinking water and sanitation facilities…