Nainital: It may not be good news for tourists but for Mussoorie it could literally mean a breath of fresh air. The Uttarakhand government has decided to introduce eco tax upon entry into the Queen of Hills with immediate effect, which is a first in the history of Mussoorie. It will be in line with the Naini lake tax charged from tourists in Nainital.
The Velachery lake is under siege once again. A new spate of reclamations along the east and west edges of the much-degraded water body could pave the way, literally, for more encroachments creeping
At least 80 per cent of solid waste generated by the Dal Lake dwellers is being disposed off safely due to the efforts of <font class='UCASE'>hope</font>
International agreements to limit greenhouse gas emissions require verification to ensure that they are effective and fair. Verification based on direct observation of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations
The 400 years old city of Hyderabad is an industrially developed city surrounded by many industrial estates which continually discharge large amounts of wastewaters into the nearby receiving water bodies. The present paper aims to study the impact of the pollution characteristics of such industrial discharges on their receiving water bodies. 2007
The present study was conducted to analyse the physico-chemical characteristics of effluent discharged from the distillery unit of McDowell and Company situated in Varanadu at Cherthala Taluk, Alappuzha district in Kerala state. (2007)
It is a grim sight and a testimony of the times in Tamil Nadu. An endless stream of cyclists keep careening down the bund of a dry lake near Virudhu Nagar with plastic pots of water dangling on
The decade-old dispute between the Ambattur Municipality and residents of Vijayalakshmipuram over sewage being let into Thangal Lake took an interesting turn this week. The locals have filed a
The land of a thousand lakes wants to sell you some of its water. With a seemingly endless supply of the cleanest ground water in the world, Finland's capital Helsinki has set up a company that
Variations in fire regimes can be inferred from changes in the abundance of sedimentary charcoal found in lake and bog sediments. When analysed with pollen data, inferences can be made about past vegetation dynamics and climate as well. The analysis of high-resolution charcoal records generally
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One morning in the summer of 2008 Asharf Molla woke up and saw the irrigation department water pump, the only source of water for his 1.5-bigha plot, was not working. When he started asking around, the middle-aged farmer learnt that all the four pumps in Baliguri village, barely 3km from Salt Lake, were out of order.
The land of a thousand lakes wants to sell you some of its water. With a seemingly endless supply of the cleanest ground water in the world, Finland's capital Helsinki has set up a company that
An ambitious project to rejuvenate a 700-year-old lake as a tourist attraction has managed to do just the opposite by driving people away. The Indian National Trust for Art, Culture and Heritage
The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pepa) has chalked out a one-year water quality monitoring plan to control pollution in Rawal Lake, Simly and Khanpur dams , the main sources of water
Ahmedabad: The beautiful bottle palm trees planted along the picturesque Kankaria Lake Front development (KLFD) during its inaugural year in 2008 are dying a slow death.
CHENNAI: A three-member team of senior engineers of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board has said that a nearly 65-acre site at Kuthambakkam, near Poonamallee, where a Solid Waste Management Facility is proposed, is not a suitable location for establishing the facility. This is because rainwater which collects in this area reaches the Chembarambakkam Lake, a major water source for Chennai.
Built by the Mewar kings about 600 years ago as the lifeline of this picturesque town - nestled in the Aravalli hills in South Rajasthan - the beautiful lakes of Udaipur are fast turning into
For the Karanji lake on Lalitha Mahal Road in Mysore has regained its lost glory, thanks to the efforts of Asian Development Bank (ADB), Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation
An announcement that activities on Beijing's evaporating lakes had been suspended for the first time in history was more than a little ominous. A look ahead suggests that for the world's biggest
