Concrete jungle chokes lake town
As part of the series that turns the spotlight on our decaying hill resorts, TOI takes a look at Nainital
As part of the series that turns the spotlight on our decaying hill resorts, TOI takes a look at Nainital
Murders are taking place over water in Madhya Pradesh, including the capital Bhopal, once known as the 'city of lakes' Even as blood is being spilled over water here, parched Madhya Pradesh seeks divine help for rainfall with people trying every trick in their book to please the rain gods.
Once upon a time there were lakes in the erstwhile garden city. Now, there are only memories as they have been filled with debris upon which concrete structures grown. With water sources drying up,
In this study, water samples collected from various ground water sources (bore wells, open wells etc) and surface water (rivers, lakes, etc) and treated water in urban and rural areas and analysed for its nitrate contents. Over 500 samples were analysed for nitrate contents so as to find out the source of contamination and the mechanism of its formation in waters.
funds meant for Chilka lake, Asia's largest water lagoon, have been diverted by the Chilka Development Authority (cda). The recent report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (cag) reveals
A river as mighty and as wide as Sarasvati could not have originated but from a glacier or a glacier lake in the Himalayas and its flow was continuous from the Himalayas to Gujarat between 6,000 to
The Ministry of Environment and Forests implements policies and programmes relating to conservation of the country's natural resources including lakes and rivers, biodiversity, forests and wildlife, ensuring
Molten volcanic rock could be used to produce electricity in future. A team from Sandia National Laboratory in --Albuquerque, New Mexico , has begun exploratory drilling at Mammoth Lakes in
The Rs 55,000 crore Kalpasar project that aims to turn the Gulf of Cambay into a massive sweet water lake by slicing it out of the Arabian Sea through the construction of a 60-km long dam was flagged
With rains having failed once again last year for the third successive time, many parts of Karnataka state are reeling under drought, and Hassan is no exception to this. Lakes and small ponds have
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has started consultation with several institutions to find out ways to check erosion of coast at Puri and Konark.
The Madurantakam lake does not even have enough water to serve the irrigation needs for standing crops in the region, let alone supplying water to Chennai, the experts team formed to study the level
The total volume of water that has melted from all of world’s polar ice sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers over the past decade would repeatedly fill Britain’s largest lake, Windemere, more than 13,000
The efforts of the Wildlife Department to slow down the "aging process' of the shrinking Renuka Lake in Sirmaur district have started yielding results. The removal of weeds and measures taken over
Record hydroelectric power generation in Himachal Pradesh due to thawing of glaciers and frozen lakes is good news for Delhi and the rest of northern India. The 20 state-owned run-of-river projects currently generate 7.6 million units daily, "the maximum generation during the peak season", said Sunil Grover, Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board's director of generation.
Victoria's sickly Gippsland Lakes will be given a health boost, with more than $3 million State Government funding set aside to reduce pollution. Acting Premier John Thwaites said that the Gippsland
One of Delhi's biggest parks, and perhaps the most neglected, is Sanjay Lake Park in east Delhi. Set in green area owned by the Delhi Development Authority, the park, at present, lies mute witness to
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
A U.S. federal appeals court said this week that national wildlife rules bar the stocking of salmon in a protected Alaskan lake, even if little harm comes from multiplying the fish. For nearly 20
Kerala is rich in water resources with ponds, lakes, tanks and wells. However, Kasargod district at the northern tip of Kerala cannot depend directly on surface water. Human ingenuity, though,