Rs 298-cr package for Dal, Nagin lakes
The Centre will spend Rs 298.76 crore for the conservation and management of Dal-Nagin Lake in Jammu and Kashmir. The project is likely to be completed by March 2010. The conservation, to be taken up
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Cameroon Dam Nears Collapse, 10,000 Lives at Risk
A natural dam holding back a lake in Cameroon is on the verge of collapse, threatening to unleash a wall of water into neighbouring Nigeria and sweep away 10,000 people in its path, a scientist
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Real estate on water
Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative real estate for builders, the last resort for slum dwellers, or garbage dumps. In the past decade, concerned citi
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Drastic fall in lake water levels
The water level in most of the lakes has drastically fallen by around two metres and most likely the city will have to face a water cut by almost 10 per cent from the first week of
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From here on matters around Dal will only improve: Minister
" Dying Dull" (Dal) Lake in Jammu and Kashmir was assured safe water-passage. Status quo and improved water quality was respectively offered to its devastating shrinkage (in size) and deteriorating
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FinCom sets Rs 5K cr for ecology-based projects
The 13th Finance Commission (TFC) has allocated Rs 5,000 crores as forest grant to support ecology-based projects initiated by of ministry of forests and environment (MF&E). Another Rs 2,063 crores have been allocated to support for state-specific projects.
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INTACH to revive 3 more lakes
By August next year, at least three natural lakes in Delhi may be revived. The Natural Heritage Division of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) will now be working
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Divert excess water from lakes, BDA told
Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh on Monday directed the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) to appoint consultants to study the possibility of diverting excess rainwater from lakes in Bommanahalli
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Xalpem lake declared contaminated
It's official, Drinking water wells in the vicinity of the once picturesque Xalpem lake at Navelim-Nagomodem are contaminated, rendering the water unfit for human consumption. Sample testing has
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Nature's magic
Drought unearths a buried treasure along the Colorado. A severe Western drought - some say the worst in 500 years - is shrinking Lake Powell at the rate of up to a foot (0.3 metre) every four days.
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Poisoned futures
The Kattedahn Lake in Andhra Pradesh is so polluted that it is "pinkish and turbid." This is how an expert committee looking at the extent to which industrial wastes pollute our water bodies
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Reforms in Wasa, fresh water for lake proposed - Report on water contamination
The Hyderabad (Pakistan) chief minister's inquiry committee on water contamination has recommended in its report that inlet sources of the Manchhar Lake - Danster and Aral Wahs - should only be made
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Govt toying with plan to rehabilitate people living in Dal Lake: CM
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed said that his government would leave no stone unturned in preserving the world famous Dal Lake as it is a glaring example of the rich heritage of the state.
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Digging one's ore grave
The pain on the faces of farmers in Goa's Sirigaon village tells a tale. A tale of ruin. Their wells and lakes have dried up. The soil has been corroded. Lush farms have become mere memories. Memories
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Development a possible threat to california lake, nation's first federal scenic area
Mono Lake, the high desert fascination of humorist Mark Twain that's nearly three times as salty as the ocean, remains the home to trillions of brine shrimp where thousands of California Gulls nest
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Identifying new persistent and bioaccumulative organics among chemicals in commerce
The goal of this study was to identify commercial chemicals that might be persistent and bioaccumulative (P&B) and that were not being considered in current Great Lakes, North American, and Arctic contaminant measurement programs.
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Where even a glass of water cannot be spared
A stillness pervades the 300-acre farm in Banpuri village. The farmer and his family have locked up and left to make a living elsewhere. The pomegranate crop that populated the vast expanse has withered
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Protect tanks, lakes in TN : Duraimurugan
The Government must ensure the protection of tanks and lakes in the state as the traditional resources could save up to 300 (mcft thousand million cubic feet) of water for TamilNadu every year,
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City govt plans dam, lake in Gadap Town
A meeting presided over by City Nazim Naimatullah Khan (Pakistan) decided to construct Thado dam and to develop a lake in Gadap Town. Sindh Irrigation and Power Secretary Ashfaq Memon, EDO (Finance)
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Never say die
Biologist Robert Wharton of the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, US, is convinced that there once existed life on the Mars, planet. For the past 17 years, Wharton has been melting