ATREE unveils LakeRevive tool for science-based lake restoration
The Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) has launched LakeRevive 1.0, a decision-support tool designed to help stakeholders implement nature-based solutions for lake restoration. The tool uses context-specific indicators like phosphorus levels to recommend interventions such as wetlands and artificial islands.
Why it matters
It provides a data-driven framework for urban ecological restoration, moving away from generic interventions toward sustainable, site-specific environmental management.
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) on Friday unveiled and disseminated LakeRevive 1.0 tool, a portal that will help contractors, engineers, other professionals and civic activists to make decisions on suitable Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for lake rejuvenation.
The scientific lake restoration requires moving beyond one-size-fits-all interventions and towards context-specific planning, researchers said at the workshop on Friday.
Priyanka Jamwal, senior fellow and convenor of ATREE’s Water and Society Programme, argued for the need to redefine how restoration success is measured.
She argued that restoration goals should be based on context-specific lake health indicators (water, biodiversity and community) rather than uniform water quality standards. This is where the LakeRevive 1.0 tool comes in. The tool is a “decision-support tool that assists people in selecting appropriate nature-based solutions (NbS)”.
Based on a set of parameters about any given lake, input by the user, the tool recommends step-by-step solutions.
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