Lake Tanganyika s hurting
Climate change endangers important food source of East Africa
Climate change endangers important food source of East Africa
There was time when Ahmedabad had 125 lakes, or
Centre has approved Rs. 237.70 crore project for conservation of Dal lake in Jammu and Kashmir. An amount of Rs. 6.50 crore has been released upto ending January 2005 to Lakes and Waterways
The risk of a possible Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in Tsho Rolpa has been substantially reduced with the recent construction project which will drain the overflowing lake. Experts identified
At long last, the Karnataka government has come up with a comprehensive project to give a facelift to the city's malodorous Fort Lake under the Union government-sponsored National Lake Development
The bed is dry and cracked instead of water there are overgrown bushes. The Andanallur Lake at Manjankaranal in Tiruvallur district, around 30 km from chennai, is dying. There are a number of lakes
Environmentalists and several residents’ welfare associations have termed the 340 hectare groundwater recharge zone in the Sohna Final Development Plan- 2031 “grossly inadequate” and “unsustainable” and
The Union Urban Development Ministry has constituted a working group to suggest ways for the preservation of water bodies in the urban areas. Rapid disappearance of water bodies from the urban landscape has sounded an alarm vis-à-vis water shortfall and has also put a considerable strain on States’ spending to meet the demand for water. A case in point is Bangalore, which despite having a Lake Development Authority that is considered a model worth replicating, is being forced to spend Rs. 3,000 crore a year on electricity, which is consumed for supplying water from the Cauvery.
Existence of Lake Nainital has been a matter of debate in the last two decades, because it is the only source of drinking water to Nainital city, a famous tourist resort in northern India. In the tectonically
Sewer lines, roads, chunks of garbage, human excreta, carcasses, slums and even apartments. There is everything except potable water in Bangalore city lakes. In water-starved Bangalore, lakes on its
The green Ulsoor Lake that was some time ago inundated with algae and weeds, today is clear, though still green as it reflects the trees around the
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is planning a comprehensive audit of water pollution in India that would cover the extent and causes of pollution of lakes, rivers and ground water. The aim of the audit would be to identify critical issues and suggest solutions that would help the government conserve and protect water resources more effectively, said Mr Vinod Rai, CAG, India.
The government's official auditor Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) today said it plans to undertake environmental audit of water pollution in India for which it has solicited people's participation. The performance audit on 'Pollution of Rivers, Lakes and Groundwater in India' will be conducted by CAG during 2010-11.
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akash Vashishtha Vs. Union of India & Others dated 06/07/2016 regarding concretisation preventing ground water replenishment in the National
Environmental NGO, SOCLEEN is planning to take some concrete steps like rejuvenating lakes in the city to bring up the level of underground water. "There are around 12 lakes in the Baroda city, which
Stringent action against encroachers District Collector P.G. Thomas has said that a monitoring committee has been constituted as part of the measures aimed at ending unauthorised granite quarrying and sand-mining in the district. He informed this after presiding over a meeting on Friday to discuss the problems posed by such activities.
two more lakes of Bangalore have joined the list of polluted waterbodies. A socio-economic study conducted by the Indian Institute of Sciences ( iis ), Bangalore, in collaboration with the
<p><span id="itro1">An estimated 260 tonnes of mercury previously held in soils is being released into rivers and lakes reveals this new UNEP study which focuses on worldwide atmospheric mercury emissions,
A set of environmental indicators used in a Canadian Government report is expected to give a more reliable picture of the health of the Great Lakes. The report, The State of the Great Lakes, presents
Hamirpur: Officials of the state wildlife department have spotted a new migratory bird named pied avocet in the famous Pong Dam wetlands this season, for the first time.