Saul Kere Lake | Kaikondrahalli Bengaluru

More than you think.   SIGN THE PETITION TO PROTECT SAUL KERE   If you work at Ecospace, Ecoworld or one of the many technology parks along Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road, you may never have thought much about Saul Kere. If you live in one of the many apartment communities around the lake, you may think of it as a place for your morning walk. If your children go to school in the surrounding neighbourhoods, Saul Kere may simply be part of the landscape you pass every day. But Saul Kere is part of the system that manages rainwater in this area. And what happens to the lake can affect ALL OF YOU!  What happens when the lake and drainage system are overwhelmed?   Flooding.  Traffic congestion.  Stranded vehicles.  Unsafe roads.  Problems getting children to school. Difficulty getting to work. And sometimes, serious damage to homes and vehicles. This isn't hypothetical. In 2022, Saul Kere overflowed after heavy rain, inundating surrounding areas. Reportin...

  The State of Bengaluru's Lakes: What 14 Months of Water Quality Data Tell Us — With a Close Look at Soul Kere Based on KSPCB (Karnataka State Pollution Control Board) monthly water quality monitoring data for Bengaluru's lakes, May 2025 – June 2026. Bengaluru was once called the "City of a Thousand Lakes." Today, a little over a hundred of these water bodies are formally monitored every month by the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), which tests each lake for more than 30 parameters — from dissolved oxygen and BOD to fecal coliform counts and, since October 2025, heavy metals like lead, cadmium and chromium. We went through fourteen consecutive months of this monitoring data — May 2025 through June 2026 — across roughly 100–130 lakes each month, to understand two things: what shape are Bengaluru's lakes in overall, and how is Soul Kere (Soulkere), the lake at Kaikondrahalli village, doing compared to its neighbours. How lake water quality is j...

  What Bengaluru’s Lake Data Really Tells Us About Soul Kere A closer look at the Bengaluru lake monitoring data — and why Soul Kere deserves protection When we talk about Bengaluru's lakes, the conversation often becomes very simple: some lakes are "good", some are "bad", and treated sewage is sometimes presented as the solution. The actual water-quality data tells a much more complicated—and much more interesting—story. The Bengaluru lake monitoring data covering 2025 and 2026 shows that lake water quality varies enormously across the city and from season to season. It also shows something particularly important about Soul Kere (listed as "Soulkere" in the government monitoring data) : Soul Kere is not a severely degraded lake. Its water-quality indicators have improved significantly over the past year, and in several important parameters it compares favourably with some of Bengaluru's better-known lakes. That makes the proposal to permanently pl...

  Save Saul Kere: Protect Bengaluru's Natural Flood Buffer Stop the Construction of an STP Inside Saul Kere Saul Kere is not vacant land. It is a critical flood-mitigation system for Bengaluru. We, the citizens, residents, environmentalists, scientists, birdwatchers and concerned citizens of Bengaluru, strongly oppose the construction of a large Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) within the lake and wetland area of Saul Kere (Sowl Kere). Sign the petition on Change.org https://www.change.org/p/stop-building-of-stp-inside-saul-kere-lake   We support sewage treatment. We do not support putting major sewage infrastructure inside a natural lake and flood-storage system. Saul Kere performs a vital function that is becoming increasingly important as Bengaluru's rainfall becomes more intense and the city's natural drainage systems are progressively built over. Saul Kere sits at the bottom of a huge watershed. The lake receives water from a watershed of approximately 24 square kilometre...

  Understanding Saul Kere: A Lake, a Watershed and a Forgotten Water System The story of Saul Kere is not simply the story of a lake. It is the story of an entire landscape—and what happens when the natural pathways through which water has moved for generations are gradually forgotten, altered or obstructed. Saul Kere: More Than a Waterbody In the rapidly urbanising landscape of Bengaluru, lakes are often viewed as isolated waterbodies: a blue patch on a map, a recreational space, a piece of open land or, increasingly, a site for infrastructure. But a lake is never just a lake. Every lake exists within a larger system of slopes, valleys, streams, drains, wetlands, catchments and downstream waterbodies. Water does not recognise property boundaries, roads, layouts or municipal jurisdictions. It follows gravity and topography. Saul Kere is a powerful example of this relationship. To understand the lake—and particularly the flooding that affected the surrounding areas during the intens...