Sustainability and treatment potentials of an urban sewage-fed lake in Bangalore, India

Sustainability and treatment potentials of an urban sewage-fed lake in Bangalore, India

Durga Madhab Mahapatra¹, Chanakya H. N^1,2 and Ramachandra T. V ^{1-3, *}

¹ Centre for Sustainable Technologies, ² Centre for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning,
³ Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India

Abstract

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results and Discussions

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Citation: Durga Madhab Mahapatra, Chanakya H. N and T. V. Ramachandra, 2010, Sustainability and treatment potentials of an urban sewage-fed lake in Bangalore, India. Proceedings of the 17^th National Symposium on Advances in Environmental Monitoring and Modeling, May 13-15, 2010, IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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	Dr. T.V. Ramachandra Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560 012, INDIA. Tel : 91-80-23600985 / 22932506 / 22933099, Fax : 91-80-23601428 / 23600085 / 23600683 [CES-TVR] E-mail : cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in, energy@ces.iisc.ernet.in, Web : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy