Civic body, residents on warpath over Thangal lake
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
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Toxic death
Reckless use of pesticides led to fish deaths in Delhi
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Finns tap arctic water supply for Arab exports
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
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Consent granted by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to M/S the Lake City Corporation Ltd.
<p>Consent granted by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to M/S the Lake City Corporation Ltd.</p>
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Finns tap pure Arctic water for export
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
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Plan for heritage lake turns mucky
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
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Water monitoring plan prepared - Pollution at three reservoirs
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
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Karanji lake breathes new life
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
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Water may well become China's biggest problem
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
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Sewage turns lake toxic in Ambattur
Vijayalakshmipuram Thangal lake at Ambattur continues to be a dumping centre for sewage, putting the life and health of around 5,000 residents in the area in jeopardy while the Ambattur Municipality
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Impact assessment of industrial discharges on the receiving water bodies in two major industrial estates of Hyderabad city
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
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Studies on the distillery effluent characteristics & its impact on Vembanad lake in the industrial area of Varanadu in Alappuzha
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)
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Letter from the Govt of Maharashtra to Lake City Corporation on the grant of environmental clearance
<p>Letter from the Govt of Maharashtra to Lake City Corporation on the grant of environmental clearance to develop township hill station in Taluka - Mulshi, Velhe, District Pune. </p>
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Fund scam?
funds meant for Chilka lake, Asia's largest water lagoon, have been diverted by the Chilka Development Authority (cda). The recent report of the Comp troller and Auditor General (cag) reveals
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Water Water everywhere but...
Though lakes, rivers, seas and oceans cover 70% of the earth's surface yet there's an acute shortage of water for human consumption. The United Nations foresees serious water shortages by 2010.
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Lost birds
WILDLIFE officials fear that migratory birds will not come to the Sultanpur National Park, Haryana, because the lake that supports the park is rapidly drying up and even the artificial sources of
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Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene
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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Fewa lake beach
Beach-lovers, rejoice. Fewa Lake in Pokhara (Nepal) is soon going to have its very own beach a la Europe and America. The Fewa Beach and Environment Conservation Committee (FBECC) is going ahead
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Getting a new flow of life
A lake which was teeming with several hundreds of birds including migratory ones, about eight years back, is now a cricket pitch for the local kids. What was once surrounded by lush paddy fields and
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Hussainsagar purer, says PCB
Officials of the AP State Pollution Control Board have noticed that the self-purification capacity of the Hussainsagar lake has improved satisfactorily in the past two years. As per the monthly