Articles by Shri Krishna M

Shri Krishna serves as the chief admin manager of the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI), a conservation-focused organisation dedicated to protecting and restoring India’s natural resources. Operating across 18 states, EFI has successfully restored over 485 water bodies and established nearly 80 afforestation sites, significantly impacting environmental sustainability nationwide. Shri Krishna’s journey with EFI began in the 7th grade, starting as a young volunteer before taking on roles as an intern, a part-time employee, and now a full-time member of the organisation’s core team.

Reviving urban wetlands: Lessons from a lake restoration project in Chennai

by November 26, 2024

India’s urban areas are running out of water in more ways than one. According to India’s first National Water Bodies Census 2023, only 3% of the country’s 2.4 million water bodies lie in urban areas. As urbanisation accelerates — with urban population projected to double from 410 million in 2014 to 814 million by 2050 — infrastructure increasingly threatens to consume the country’s blue spaces, including lakes, ponds, marshlands, and swamps. A 10-city study conducted by World Resources Institute (WRI) India found that between 2000 and 2015, while the built-up area in the surveyed cities increased, their blue cover decreased by an average of 15%. The loss…

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