Satputara set to woo tourists
With hills, lakes, forests, waterfalls and a ropeway in abundance, the Gujarat government has woken up to Satputara region's potential as a tourist hotspot, along with the socio-economic uplift of
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Violence over water
Water is already provoking violence, deaths and inter-state feuds in India. More people are getting involved in litigation over hand pumps, ponds, wells, lakes and rivers. "We're illiterate about
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Dal-Nagin lakes conservation
Asia's largest freshwater Dal Lake in Srinagar is shrinking due to siltation, increased urbanisation and polluted inflow from peripheral areas. The Environment and Forests Minister, Mr T R Baalu,
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Area under Dal Lake has gone up
Following efforts taken by the authorities, the area of the famous Dal Lake has increased. One of Jammu and Kashmir's biggest assets the decline in its area due to encroachments had been causing
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Denied access to lake, Govt clueless in crisis
A full one week after its formation, the Crisis Management Group today asked the Central Water Commission (CWC) to collate all available data on the dimensions of the lake caused by the landslide on
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China urged to give data on lake
With reports of a "five-metre breach" in the lake in Tibet on the Parchu tributary of Sutlej and its water level returning to "normal," the Centre's core group monitoring the threat of floods has
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Alpine lakes tarnished with polluted grime
A layer of grey grime that has been polluting protected alpine lakes in central Switzerland may have been caused by munitions explosions in Ukraine, some 1,200 miles away. Experts from the
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And Bhakra waits for Pareechu to flow
While panic prevails among inhabitants on the banks of Sutlej in upper Himalayas, the Gobind Sagar lake eagerly awaits Pareechu waters. The reason is simple: The sprawling Gobind Sagar reservoir,
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China warns of overflow any time
Chinese authorities said today that the lake created by a landslip on the Pareechu river which flows into Himachal Pradesh could overflow "any time." A statement from the Chinese Embassy maintained
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Worth its salt
In the quieter western parts of the Sambhar Lake, the flamingoes have landed, like they do every winter. And to ensure their return, the Rajasthan state forest department has drafted a new policy, to
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Water recedes in Sutlej
Amid confusing reports of the increase in the size of artificial lake in Tibet, the water discharge at the 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Project came down to 448 cumecs (cubic metres per second) from 656
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Tibet lake develops tail
With no concrete information about "limited blast' by China for controlled release of lake water on the Satluj tributary, officials monitoring the threat of flood today assessed the situation in the
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Parchu panic grips HP
Panic gripped people living along the 300-km-length of Sutlej from Kinnaur to Bilaspur as flash floods due to the overflowing of the lake formed in Tibet due to the blockage of Parchu, a tributary,
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Building a dream out of a dry lake
The drying up of the lake has turned out to be a fortune fall for the beedi workers of Mandya in Karnataka. when, the Mandya Beedi Workers Multipurpose Cooperative Housing Society set about giving
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Public-private partnership mooted for river, lake projects
The Union Environment Minister, A. Raja, today suggested public-private partnership in implementing the national river and lake conservation programmes and setting up of a mechanism to monitor them.
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As Tibet lake threat recedes, China invites India to Lhasa
The Pareechu lake in Tibet, responsible for many a sleepless nights after it threatened to burst and swamp the Sutlej valley in Himachal Pradesh, is so far intact. But there's movement at another
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Army on high alert after Chinese warning
The civil administration, the Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were again put on high alert following a flash message from the Chinese authorities that the lake formed in Tibet due to
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Drying lakes, Dying past
Many of the capital's lakes go back to the Delhi Sultanate. Some of them are neglected. The Mehrauli Archaelogical Park has the Rajon ki Baoli, built by the Lodis in the 16th century it was mainly
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Senseless exploitation dries up Kolleru lake
Kolleru the biggest freshwater lake in the country is posed on the verge of an ecological disaster. Alarmingly declining water holding area, clogging of streams an channels high pollution levels
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Mala is no lake, says government
Campaigners of the Goa People's Forum, who are opposing the Mala lake beautification project, sought information about the plan, which has raked up a row in the Fountainhas-Mala locality of Panjim.