The objective of the retreat on “Urban Water” was to understand the broader picture of the water situation in Bengaluru in the context of its regional growth. An overview of Bengaluru’s water management with respect to its water requirements, migration and urbanisation was also discussed at the retreat.

Following key points were discussed  during the retreat:

> Long-term sustainability and effects of climate change, such as droughts and floods, along with issues of equity and access to water.                                                                                                                                                                                           

> Management of groundwater – a common resource- management of wastewater and lakes of Bengaluru.

Access to water and usage by different sections of the society.

> The key intervention that emerged from the retreat was that the necessity of decentralisation of wastewater water management practices in Bengaluru. Additionally new resources of preserving water should be explored whereas there should be a cap on extraction of groundwater.

> Multiple uses of lakes were also deliberated upon and the retreat also sought to be the genesis of the formation of a single agency to manage water in Bengaluru.

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Participants of this retreat

Amogh Arakali,
IIHS,
aarakali@iihs.ac.in
Annapurna Kamath,
JalaPoshan,
jalaposhan@gmail.com
Chanakya,
Centre for Sustainable Technologies (ASTRA) IISc,
chanakya@astra.iisc.ernet.in
AR Shivakumar,
KSCST, IISc
ars@kscst.iisc.ernet.in
Ashwin Mahesh, 
info@ashwinmahesh.in
Anwar,
APPI
Deepak Malghan,
IIM Bangalore
dmalghan@iimb.ac.in, dmalghan@atree.org
Ganapathy Ponnani Ganeshan,
CDD Society,
ganapathypg@gmail.com
Jahnavi Phalkey,
Science Gallery Bengaluru,
jahnavi.phalkey@
bengaluru.sciencegallery.com
Jacob John, 
APPI,
jacob@
azimpremjiphilanthropicinitiatives.org
Jayaraj Sundaresan,
IIHS
jsundaresan@iihs.ac.in
Jayshree Vencatesan,
Care Earth, Chennai
jvencatesan@gmail.com
Kartik Shanker,
IISc,
kshanker@gmail.com
Kshithij Urs, 
ActionAid and Peoples Campaign for Rights to Water,
Kshithij.urs@actionaid.org
Lingaraj Dinni,
Wipro,
lingaraj.dinni@wipro.com
Mrinalini Bakshi Sengupta, 
ATREE,
mrinalinibs@ncbs.res.in
Mihir Shah,
Samaj Pragati Sahayog,
mihir.shah@nic.in
PK Das,
Architect, Mumbai   Waterfronts Centre and (PUDDI),
pkdas@pkdas.com
Priya Ramasubban, 
MAPSAS,
ramasubbanpriya@gmail.com
Priyanka Jamwal,
ATREE,
priyanka.jamwal@atree.org
PS Narayan,
Head of CSR, WIPRO Foundation,
narayan.pan@wipro.com
Ram Prasad, 
FoL,
friendsoflakes@gmail.com
Rohini Nilekani, 
Arghyam, Pratham,
rohini@arghyam.org
Sasanka Velidandla, 
CDD,
sasanka.velidandla@cddindia.org
Sanjay Sridhar (C40), 
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,
sanjaysridhar@yahoo.com
Sharad Lele, 
ATREE,
slele@atree.org
Sridhar Pabishetty,
Namma Bengaluru Foundation,
sridhar.pabbisetty@gmail.com
Srinivas Vaidyanathan,
FERAL,
srinivasv@feralindia.org
Shishir Rao, 
Research for Wildlife
Conservation(RWC),

shishir.t.rao@gmail.com
Uma Ramakrishnan, 
NCBS,
uramakri@ncbs.res.in
Veena Srinivasan,
ATREE,
veena.srinivasan@atree.org
Vishal Narain, 
Management Development
Institute,Gurgaon

vishalnarain@mdi.ac.in
Vishwanath, 
Biome,
zenrainman@gmail.com
Vishal Mehta, 
Stockholm Environmental
Institute USA
vishal.mehta@sei-international.org
Zulfi Haider, APPI,
zulfiquar@
azimpremjiphilanthropicinitiatives.org