Drought takes Udaipur back to some centuries
The drought led to misery all over Rajasthan but for Udaipur, it unearthed new historical facts. While desilting the Pichola lake which is about 400 years old, the city administration dug out idols
The drought led to misery all over Rajasthan but for Udaipur, it unearthed new historical facts. While desilting the Pichola lake which is about 400 years old, the city administration dug out idols
The Karnataka High Court today directed the chief secretary of the State government to take necessary action to preserve and maintain tanks, ponds, lakes, rivers and other natural resources in the
With water in the Great Lakes at its lowest level in 30-years, four U.S. states and two Canadian provinces have agreed to limit the amount of new water that can be withdrawn, the Michigan governor's
Orissa's Chilka lake and lagoon, which had been headed for a slow biological death, has found a new lifeline in a project that is in the pipeline to give it a new outlet to the
Keeping in view the serious ecological dangers posed to Chilka Lake by siltation, the Chilka Development Authority has prepared a catchment treatment plan by commissioning the services of the Orissa
Water scarcity this time in Saurashtra, Kutch and North Gujarat has perhaps for the first time spurred massive efforts to build water sheds facilities--deepening the silted lakes, ponds, rivulets,
In a unique rainwater harvesting experiment using low cost on the spot innovations two range forest officers (RFOs) have given back to Bangalore, almost restored lake which in turn will recharge
Various schemes have been thought of to tackle Madras' water scarcity.
The State Environmental Protection Administration (sepa) of China has reported that almost half of the country's chemical factories pose serious environmental risks. Following an environmental
Land grabbing has today become a major issue across India and a central political faultline in Indian politics. Protests, resistance and conflicts have been growing as a result of attempts by people to
After contributing much to Bangalore's economy, various corporate firms, multinational companies, IT industry giants have joined hands with environment experts and consultants to save Bellandur lake
As the cleanup of the decade-old mercury pollution in Nura river started in Kazakhstan, environmentalists emphasised the need for extreme caution. Mercury had been discharged in the river over many
Collector Anil Kumar Jain is introducing Ek Sarpanch-Ek Talab scheme in the district of Gwalior with a view to improve all such old lakes which are at present in ruinous state. In this campaign both
This monsoon in Calcutta, Salt Lake may well have a repeitition of last year's floods as engineers feel their work of desilting the Krishnapur canal may not be complete before the rains. According to
With the onset of summer, most dams, lakes and reservoirs in Saurashtra region have gone dry completely. Rajkot city is facing severe water crisis. The biggest blow is the drying up of Bhadar dam-for
Closure of the Marine Drive, demolition of hotel Lake View Ranjeet and similar other hard-hitting measures were recommended by experts at a day-long workshop for the stakeholders in the ambitious Rs
A US-Canada commission has recommended that both governments adopt stringent standards to manage the Great Lakes water system and establish conditions that would make it virtually impossible for
The West Bengal government will lodge a strong protest with Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on the Centre's reported decision withdrawing the national lake status to Calcutta's Rabindra
ALAPPUZHA: Large quantities of sand, mined from the Vembanadu lake during the dredging of the Kollam-Kottappuram Inland Waterway-III at Thanneermukkom, is alleged to have been illegally transported to various places inside and outside the State.
Recommendations made as early as the 1920s to invorporate the country's network of rivers, lakes and canals into the urban development plans, if followed even remotely, could have given us a capital