No drinking water for Bikash Bhavan staff
Salt Lake municipality (West Bengal) has stopped sending its water tankers to the aid of employees at Bikash Bhavan. The government offices in this building have been acing acute water shortage over
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Velachery lake crying for attention
"Save Velachery lake". This is the cry of residents of Velachery. With each passing day, the precious water body is getting more polluted, and according to residents, encroachments in and around the
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Urban local bodies use lakes as dumping yards
Poor planning in the development of the Chennai city and its suburbs in the last two decades has left the lakes and ponds, meant for storing water for recharging the underground water table, in a
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Scheme to clean up Ooty lake launched
A major scheme estimated at a cost of Rs 1.74 crores to clean the Ooty lake was inaugurated by the Tourism Minister, A. Miller. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Miller hoped that the "revival and
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Polluter sent packing
In yet another step to rid Dal Lake of pollution, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has ordered the closure of Centaur hotel, a subsidiary of Air-India. It was said to be discharging effluents into
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Fountains to keep lakes clean
The fountains that present a charming sight admist colourful lighting at different places in Upper and Lower lakes would now be used to keep the water clean. Through these fountains the water would
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Elephant rescued from mud pit
Salvaged: A kumki elephant helping the wild elephant at the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near Udhagamandalam on Tuesday. Udhagamandalam: A male elephant which was struggling to get out of a mud pit was rescued by a forest team headed by the Tiger Reserve veterinarian Kalaivanan at Ombetta, a part of Kargudi range inside the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve on Tuesday. Enquiries revealed that sometime in the night or early in the morning, the pachyderm which was playing in the mud pit near the Ombetta lake had put one of its tusks under a root.
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'Water bodies are answer to scarcity'
Important water resources like old baolis, lakes and water tanks across the country have been neglected for decades. In Delhi there are about 500 such water bodies. In a bid to find effective ways
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Final verdict
Government authorities are to • Notify all lakes in the state and protect them • Take urgent measures to regenerate the waterbodies • Remove
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Global warming greatest in past decade
Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1,300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1,700 years. The proxies used by the researchers included information from marine and lake sediment cores, ice cores, coral cores and tree rings. The study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and is enclosed herewith.
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Plan for disaster: Expert
Hyderabad, Aug. 27: Experts of IIT Mumbai have asked the government to put in a place a disaster management plan for the city since floods would become common owing to climate change. They were speaking at a meeting organised by the GHMC to tackle floods and water stagnation. Hyderabad, which used to get an average rainfall of 806 mm till 1988 now gets 840 mm. Encroachments of lakes, ponds, nalas have led to a situation in which there is no drainage for rainwater. Prof Kapil Gupta of IIT Mumbai said that the government should prepare a disaster management plan.
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Unforeseen misuses of bed nets in fishing villages along Lake Victoria
To combat malaria, the Kenya Ministry of Health and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have distributed insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) for use over beds, with coverage for children under five years of age increasing rapidly. Nevertheless, residents of fishing villages have started to use these bed nets for drying fish and fishing in Lake Victoria. This study investigated the extent of bed net misuse in fishing villages.
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Lanka to face acid rain threat
Sri Lanka is on the verge of facing ecologically harmful acid rains. Prof. O.A. Illeperuma of the University of Peradeniya said as indicated by the recent environmental studies carried out by environmental scientists, in Anuradhapura, Mahailuppallama and Uva areas for over many years during North-Eastern rainy seasons, Sri Lanka is likely to experience acid rains in the future. Acid rains cause acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to the damage of trees at high elevations and many sensitive forest soil and harm public health.
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Dolphin sanctuary at Satpada
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Take measures to improve underground water table
DH News Service, Shrinivaspur: Rejuvenation of ponds and lakes should be given top priority in order to improve the underground water table. New ponds and tanks should be constructed where ever rainwater can easily sink into the ground, suggested education expert M Shriramareddy. Speaking to media persons here on Monday, he said, Gujarat government was the right example, in this regard. The new ponds and tanks constructed in that State and also, the projects meant for ensuring the sinking of rainwater into the ground, were all fruitful.
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Groundwater depletion during drought threatens future water security of the Colorado River Basin
Streamflow of the Colorado River Basin is the most over-allocated in the world. Recent assessment indicates that demand for this renewable resource will soon outstrip supply, suggesting that limited groundwater
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Funds for revamp of Rabindra Sarobar
West Bengal ministry of environment and forest will fund Rabindra Sarobar's development. The artificial lake over 73 acres was built in the 1940s. KIT had submitted to the Centre a project to develop
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HC directive in PIL to govt. departments for preserving lakes
A division bench of the J&K high court on Saturday directed all the departments linked directly or indirectly with the lakes and water ways to effectively preserve them. It has also issued a set of
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Global Warming's Trickle-Down Effect
Survival of Ganga, Dead Sea at risk Man Mohan Our Roving Editor New Delhi, July 22 Because of climate change, not only the mighty Ganga's survival is at stake but even the Dead Sea - one of the world's first health resorts - is dying. It is feared that the Dead Sea, which is 1,378 ft below sea level, may disappear by 2050. The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Israel and and the West Bank and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the earth on dry land.
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Ecorestoration of ponds, lakes and rivers using BIOSANITIZER ecotechnology
Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain with nitrates and acidity. This pollutes the surface water bodies and also the groundwater.