Kartiki Naik

Program Manager – Urban Development

Bio

Kartiki Naik is Program Manager with the Urban Development team under the Sustainable Cities and Transport program at WRI India. Here she focuses on improving urban flood management in the light of climate change impacts. Her work also involves enabling planned, sustainable, and effective use of blue-green and hybrid infrastructure.

Kartiki is driven to improve urban water resilience using her experience as a policymaker, engineer, and researcher. Formerly, at Naik Enviro, she oversaw operation and maintenance for wastewater reclamation and composter projects. Prior to that, at the State Water Board of California, Kartiki developed statewide regulation to reduce water losses from water supply systems and led collaborations with the Government of Denmark and Brazil to improve water loss control.

Kartiki earned doctoral and master’s degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles, with research experience on improving efficiencies for large wastewater treatment systems and decentralized wastewater management. She holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai.

Blog Posts

Walking along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 km long trained river and its riverine ecosystem
by Sahil Kanekar, Kartiki Naik and Abhijit Waghre - August 17, 2022
This three-part blog series examines one of the many systems Mumbai relies on during the monsoons. The first photo essay, in the series, is a description of a walk along the Mithi river, illustrating the condition of riverbanks and challenges in maintaining the river as a flood mitigation measure.

Mumbai’s perennial struggle with routine waterlogging and catastrophic floods is

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