Dr. Priya Nair

Dr. Priya Nair holds a doctorate in environmental hydrology from IISc Bangalore and spent years researching groundwater depletion in India's agricultural regions — a crisis she describes as one of the most urgent and least understood environmental challenges on the planet. She turned to journalism to bring that urgency to a wider audience, writing about smart irrigation technologies, water recycling systems, drought forecasting tools, and crop varieties designed to thrive in a water-scarce future. Priya writes with a precision and passion that reflects both her scientific training and her deep concern for the communities most at risk from agricultural water stress. She is based in Bangalore.