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.

Blogs

Walking Along the Mithi River: Five Opportunities To Improve Flood Resilience
by Sahil Kanekar, Kartiki Naik and Abhijit Waghre - February 27, 2023
The third and concluding photo essay of the Mithi River series looks at enhancing the river's capacity for flood resilience through planning and design. We highlight five opportunities to adapt open spaces for absorbing and holding water at strategic locations along the river’s stretch. Read the
Walking Along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 KM Long Trained River and Urban Settlements on Its "Banks"
by Kartiki Naik, Sahil Kanekar and Abhijit Waghre - October 27, 2022
This three-part blog series examines one of the many systems Mumbai relies on during the monsoons. The second photo essay, in the series, focuses on the urban settlements along the Mithi river. The "symptoms” observed call for a systemic approach in improving the health and flood resilience of the river. You can read the first blog in the series
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.

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Kartiki Naik

Walking Along the Mithi River: Five Opportunities To Improve Flood Resilience

Walking Along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 KM Long Trained River and Urban Settlements on Its "Banks"

Walking Along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 KM Long Trained River and Its Riverine Ecosystem

Flood Risk in Mumbai – Consultative Stakeholder Workshop

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