(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
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Kannada) R. Byregowda, Head, Doddajala village: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"When I was young, this lake was beautiful. It had only rainwater. It did not have sewage water. We used it as drinking water. 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."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
3. Wide of a dried up lake
4. Wide of a dried up lake with cattle roaming
5. Aerial shot of a treatment plant next to a lake
6. Close of trash on the shore of a partially dried lake
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
7. Close of weeds rushing through water of a lake
8. Various of residents cleaning weeds from a lake
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
9. Various aerial shots of a partially dried lake
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"In the 1970’s, there were over 250 lakes in the city, and now we are at the official number of 183. 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 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 like start agriculture. And now it’s almost like somebody dumps something into it and the lake gets filled up and then like 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
11. Wide of a large dirt patch in a dried up lake
12. Wide of a bridge busy with traffic over a dried lake
13. Aerial shot of a partially dried lake next to residential buildings
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist: ++COVERED++
"Lakes can act as the climate mitigation units in the city because we have around 3% of the area is under lakes. And they can act as cooling zones when it’s extreme heat events, and they can act as flood buffers when there is extreme rainfall events."
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Bengaluru, India – 9 September 2025
15. Aerial shot of a partially dried lake
16. Wide of a lake in front of a large residential building
17. Aerial shot of a partially dried-up lake
18. Close of trash on the shore of a partially dried lake
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Shashank Palur, hydrologist: ++COVERED++
"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
20. Various of trash piled next to a sewage drain
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Bengaluru, India – 23 August 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (English) V. Ramprasad, co-founder, Friends of Lakes: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
22. Wide of residents cleaning weeds from a lake
23. Wide of residents carrying a small raft
24. Various aerial shots of residents cleaning weeds in a lake on a raft
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