“Society is unaware of the consequences of any major issues we come across every day. Let it be Water conservation, Climate change or COVID-19. I have decided to aware the community with scientific evidence by community participation in research.

My name is Prithvi Ram Bommaraboyina. I am a researcher and development professional focused on water, climate change and agriculture. I first started my first career, as an activist, very soon realized this would not help to solve the problem. I have started researching technologies like hydroponics (soilless cultivation) a technology to grow crops without soil that would be useful in the lack of fertile soils and urban agriculture.

Phyto-remediation (plant-based water treatment) is cost-effective nature based solution to reduce chemical contaminants in lakes and ponds. I have used this technology at Kanjli Wetland in Punjab to reduce Arsenic Contamination which is a heavymetal and was immensely honoured for the little thing I did. I was announced as youth ambassador of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan India’s passionate clean India mission in 2015, also received a cash prize and free education for post-graduation at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, as part of my academic research. I got a chance to travel to the most vulnerable areas of the country and work with more critical issues like a restoration in Jharkhand, where I was Project Fellow with Coal India to rejuvenate the mining dump and was honoured with Hemendra Kothari Fellowship.

I was fortunate to get the chance to work with Dr. Sushas P Wani at ICRISAT, Consultative group for international agriculture research (CGIAR), Patancheru on wastewater reuse and heavy metal contaminants in crops. The later Implementation projects on chemical contamination in drinking water in Bihar and Assam. The effects of urbanization on traditional livelihoods made me aware that the crisis is beyond environmental pollution, which bothered me.

The better you communicate the best practices you get. I have a simple question for the readers, are you ready to pay to read scientific journals? How to disseminate science-based research results to the public?  The actual problem of social problems is the unawareness of the end-users and lack of proper articulation of science-based evidence to the public. This is possible only if we open up our labs to the public or scientists do user participatory research and I am on this mission.

I am currently working on a project on preparedness in the State with Youngistaan Foundation a Hyderabad based NGO in Collaboration with UNICEF and Govt. of Telangana, The project aims to create a network of 5000 Volunteers to communicate the appropriate behaviour and aware the general public to Combat COVID-19 in the state.”

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