A river gives water to its banks when water swells in it, and in return it receives water back in the dry
seasons when it needs it. This meeting between water and land at shores have long been the place
where humanity meets, celebrates and comes together.
Here in this INREM Annual report for 2024-25, we celebrate Kinaare, the shores and banks that are meeting points for land and sea, and where we all come together.
I put on my wet suit, helmet, and tightened the strips for the life jacket. I stared at my journey ahead. Questions came to my mind – will I complete this ? Is it going to be easy? How is the path ahead ?
Water moves across landscapes and institutions, but its risks have many layers: from geology to social systems. This note examines how contamination, governance, and local knowledge overlap, and how people-led monitoring, simple technologies, and district platforms can turn detection into durable action. Download the full PDF for the detailed findings and tools.
How do lab experiments become practical solutions for villages? Kumar Gautam spent a month at the S3 Lab, Centre for Sustainable Technologies (IISc Bangalore) to find out. Under Dr. Yagnaseni Roy, Kumar learned low-cost, scalable approaches to remove arsenic from...