Khaste lake on lease
Khaste, one of the seven lakes of Pokhara, which have been neglected so far has been handed to Khaste Agro Enterprise Pvt Ltd in lease for the period of ten
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Victims of development
Six years ago, the Bagur-Navile canal evacuees were as happy as they could be, growing ragi, paddy and other crop. Their source of water was local tanks and lakes. The fact that the Hemavathy river
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Report to the people on environment and forests 2010-11
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
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Sanjay Lake remains a dream
A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since the DDA created Sanjay Lake in the late 70s in Mayur Vihar. It had been decided then to develop it as not only the biggest tourist spot of
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Water level at Rawal Lake rises
Water level in Rawal Lake (Pakisan) has increased to 20,000 acre feet from the previous 15,000 acre feet due to torrential rains in the last few days, official sources said. This increase in Rawal
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HP to power Punjab, Haryana
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.
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Sand miners ravage city's water source
When a group of bird-watchers of the Madras Naturalist Society landed up at the Chembarambakkam lake one early morning-almost a year after they had last visited it-they were in for a rude shock. Most
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Nilnag lake faces encroachers' onslaught
The half-hearted official attempts to restore this stunningly beautiful lake in Nilnag (Budgam), Jammu has once again made it vulnerable to the greed of encroachers. It was with much fanfare that the
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Colleges to help clean up lakes
Tired of wrangling with private firms, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has turned to local educational institutions for assistance with its lake-cleaning project. The project, funded by the
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- Dredging of Dal Lake begins
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah launched a cutter suction dredger to mark the commencement of marginal dredging of the Dal lake basin, near Nishat this
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Eye in sky reveals water loss from melting glaciers
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
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Dal to be first Wi-Fi-enabled lake in world
The lovely Dal in Kashmir will soon be the world's first wirefree enabled lake providing the tourist on the houseboat, romantically floating down the placid waters by the flower-vendors, facilities
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Stinking water bodies projects
Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayee's assurance that his government is preparing a project for aid from the World Bank for conservation of Wullar Lake in Kashmir valley sounds well. This assurance
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Panel to review management of Loktak Lake
The Central Government has reconstituted a high-level technical advisory committee on lakes to oversee matters of development and management of these natural water bodies. The Committee headed by the
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Upper lake is more toxic
According to a recent report of Bhoj Wetland Project, the toxicity of the lake has been increased due to the increase in number of idol immersion this year. According to the report 851 idols wre
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Radio isotopes mechanism to study Chilka lake
For a long-term managemetn of the fishery resources of Chilka Lake, in Orissa, the largest brackish water lagoon in Asia, rado isotopes mechanism would be used for the first time to determine the
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Autonomous profiling device to monitor remote water bodies
In tropical climates, most freshwater reservoirs, dams and lakes are prone to annual summer stratification during which bottom water layers near the bed become hypoxic (< 2 ml/l) with very low concentrations
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Why excreta matters
Indians know little about the water they use and the waste they discharge Water is life, and sewage tells its life story. This is the subject of the “Citizens’ Seventh Report on the State of India’s Environment”, Excreta Matters: How urban India is soaking up water, polluting rivers and drowning in its own excreta. It has a seemingly simple plot: it only asks where Indian cities get their water from and where their waste goes. But this is not just a question or answer about water, pollution and waste.
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A Tale of two seas
Hazards of the proposed canal The proposed canal, dubbed Two Seas Canal, will pump water from the Red Sea to a height of 230 m above sea level, transport it along the Araba valley and then run down into the Dead Sea. The downhill flow will be harnessed to generate 550 MW of electricity. Green groups say mixing waters from seas with drastically different chemical composition could cause the
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Making sport of Conservation
The Asian Junior Rowing Championships at Chandigarh, held from November 24 to 27, took a cruel toll of trees. The organisers found that the heavy inflow of silt and seepage of water from the