(20 Sep 2025)
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
1. Various aerial shots of a lake next to residential buildings in Bengaluru ++MUTE++
2. Wide of residential buildings next to a partially dried lake ++MUTE++
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Kannada) R. Byregowda, Head, Doddajala village:
"When I was young, this lake was beautiful. It had only rainwater. It did not have sewage water. We used it as drinking water."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
4. Wide of a dried up lake
5. Wide of a dried up lake with cattle roaming
6. Aerial shot of a treatment plant next to a lake ++MUTE++
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Kannada) R. Byregowda, Head, Doddajala village:
"Later the lake dried up. Now they let in water from sewage treatment plants and it is polluted. Now this weed grew and hence we decided to clean it."
8. Various of residents cleaning weeds from a lake
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist:
"In the 1970’s, there were over 250 lakes in the city, and now we are at the official number of 183."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
10. Various aerial shots of a partially dried up lake
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist:
"The water bodies in Bengaluru used to be seasonal. So they would dry up in summers. Then when it rains, they used to capture flood water. And now, whenever the lake kind of dries up and stays dry for a very long time, it tends to change its nature. So maybe earlier, farmers would move into the lake bed and start agriculture. And now it’s almost like somebody dumps something into it and the lake gets filled up and then it automatically gets notified as a residential land. And then things start building, and once things are built on it you cannot do much about it."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
12. Wide of a large dirt patch in a dried up lake ++MUTE++
13. Wide of a bridge busy with traffic over a dried lake ++MUTE++
14. Aerial shot of a partially dried lake next to residential buildings ++MUTE++
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist:
"Right now, most of our lakes are full with treated or untreated sewage, which means that they cannot act as flood buffers when it rains, which we have started seeing over 100 mm (about 4 inches) rainfall days in a day."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
16. Various of trash piled next to a sewage drain ++MUTE++
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (English) V. Ramprasad, co-founder, Friends of Lakes:
"If you see any lake that has been saved in Bengaluru it will be because there is a citizen group which has fought for it. So every lake all the 185 lakes now 210 lakes, all of them have their own citizen groups. And we have seen because of the citizen group is that encroachment has stopped because they are the eyes and the ears of that area and they are the impacted people."
18. Wide of residents carrying a small raft
19. Various aerial shots of residents cleaning weeds in a lake on a raft ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
Sunil Kumar rowed his small boat, moving a few feet at a time, while he spread a fishing net across the weeds floating like a green carpet on Doddajala Lake. The ends of the net were then carried ashore and tied to a tractor and an earthmover, which pulled the bundled plants toward laborers ready to drag them out with pitchforks.
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