Efforts on to drain out artificial lake
Efforts were on today to drain out about 2.80 lakh cubic metres of water from an artificial lake, which was formed here due to dumping of earth in a seasonal rivulet while levelling a hill-lock, in a
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Participatory fisheries management revisited
Participatory fisheries management (PFM), as widely understood in Malawi, is a governance type that entrenches participation of the user community in fish resource management. In PFM, the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and the fishing community are key partners who, in an ideal situation, agree on shared roles and responsibilities, and formulate the goals, objectives and strategies of a particular management regime.
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City's major water source under threat
Gokul Chandrasekar | ENS THE piped water you get at home could be laced with toxins if a proposal by five municipalities and a town panchayat to set up a compost yard in Kuthambakkam village comes through.
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Full water supply till next monsoon
Mumbai Water supply will remain total with the BMC deciding not to re-impose the 15 per cent cut it had lifted during the festival season in September. After a number of meetings and constant pressure from corporators, municipal commissioner Swadheen Kshatriya announced on Thursday that the lakes the city depends on have filled up after a good monsoon and the city will get its full quota of 335
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$20 b to clean up Great Lakes
A whopping $20 billion (Rs 87,200 crore) is needed to fund a comprehensive plan to clean up the Great Lakes in Canada and the US, a coalition of environmental and government groups has said. The task
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Full Hussainsagar rings alarm bells
The district administration has put out an evacuation alert to residents of apartments and colonies int eh down stream of Hussainsagar after the lake filled up on Saturday.Officials of MCH the
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Rajkot residents join hands to desilt lakes, dam
Officials of the State Irrigation Department and Rajkot Municipal Corporation always argued that desilting of dams and lakes was not fesible. They cited high costs, wastages of manhours and the
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Depleting reservoir levels worry Metrowater
Metrowater officials are a worried lot due to falling levels in the reservoirs that cater to the city's drinking water needs. The depleting storage in the Veeranam lake only makes matters
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Letter from MOEF to B P Pandey, Secretary (Environment) Govt of Maharashtra on Lavasa
<p>Letter from MOEF to B P Pandey, Secretary (Environment) Govt of Maharashtra on Lavasa Corporation's plan to develop a Lake Town Hill Station.</p>
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Special treatment for Dal Lake
With the sudden surge in the tourist inflow into the Valley, the world famous Dal Lake is seen to have borne the brunt because of acute sewerage problem and littered polythene bags and PET bottles
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Water level in Tibet reservoir recedes
The worst in Himachal Pradesh is over with the water level in the Parechu reservoir in Tibet receding considerably. "The artificial lake is gone with its surface area reduced from 193 to 99 hectares
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PAK-EPA accuses CDA of not complying with CJP's directives
Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (PAK-EPA) has accused the Capital Development Authority (CDA) of not complying with the directives of Chief Justice of Pakistan and ensure that neither polluted nor contaminated water flows into Rawal Lake, Business Recorder has learnt. Documents available with this correspondent revealed that PAK-EPA wrote a letter to the civic body on September 17, 201
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Balram Talab Yojana a boon for farmers
The Balram Talab Yojana is proving to be a great boon for score of farmers in Madhya Pradesh, where the scheme is helping them reap rich benefits by adding to the profitability of the exercise. Meet Sushila Patidar of village Bhamesar in Manasa development block of Neemuch district, a determined lady farmer, who, until recently, could extract only one crop from her fields every year, due to ina
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The big thaw reaches Mongolia's pristine north
Global warming is not a uniform process. Mongolia, particularly at the high altitudes around Lake Hovsgol, has been warming more than twice as fast as the global average. Unique ecosystems are feeling the heat. Here at the transition between the steppe grassland and taiga, plants and animals are confronted with a changing environment-and the outlook is not good for the herders who are crowding up from the south.
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Global warming shrinks Siberian lakes
Lakes in two large swaths of Siberia are shrinking in size and 125 of them have disappeared, a U.S. study revealed recently. Scientists have examined satellite photographs of 305,000 sqkm of Siberia,
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Constructions garbage turning Dal Lake into Dull-Lake
The expansion of Srinagar city within and along the periphery of the world famous Dal Lake has brought many far-reaching changes in the environs. A large number of residential and commercial
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Water quality worsens in Europe's lakes and rivers
Ten per cent of Europe's lakes and rivers used for swimming and water sports do not meet the required standards for EU bathing water, the latest figures have found. Presenting its annual report on
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Authorities cold to Krishna Nagar plight
Non-motorable roads, lack of drinking water and a lake, which has squared up as a garbage-dumping yard, have now made Krishna Nagar a neglected locality in the suburban Pallavaram.Even though Krishna
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Kolar: Administering a solution to water crisis
There are more than 4,400 lakes, 1.5 lakh borewells, but each year, the water problem in Kolar district in Karnataka escalates. In some places, the existing water is contaminated by fluorides and in
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Lake assault
Udaipur s waterbodies run dry, authorities run amok