Pollutants take sheen out of Dal Lake
Dal Lake is shrinking in size with routine dumping of industrial wastes and encroachment along its banks. Continued agricultural activity in the floating gardens and catchment areas, land
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Turkmen leader plans giant lake in the desert
Turkmenistan has launched a 10-year plan to create a giant lake in the Karakum desert to solve water shortages and return land in the Central Asian republic to farm use, a government official said on
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Babu seeks help for lakes
Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who is currently touring Japan, has requested the Hiyoshi Ecological Society to extend co-operation for cleansing the Hussain Sagar, Kolleru and Pulicat lakes and
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Receding Dal Lake a cause for concern
Once the centre of attraction for tourists in Kashmir, the Dal Lake has shrunk by half from its previous size in the last few decades. About 20 per cent of its total area of 11 sq km has passed into
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Fallen to Earth
Frozen pieces of a puzzle as old as the sun : Pieces of a meterorite that fell over a frozen lake in Canada in January appear to be the oldest and most pristine extraterrestrial material yet found,
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An economy enshrined in nature
ONE hundred and twenty crore Indians cannot shift to urban centres and become software engineers, professionals and service providers. So, villages, forest, agriculture fields, rivers, hills and lakes need to survive in order to enshrine a large number of microeconomic activities.
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Impure lakes
KEEP the Great Lakes surrounding the US-Canada border clean or fall prey to cancer and impotency, warns the International Joint Commission, the watchdog for the five lakes -- Superior, Michigan,
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N plants acting up
With temperatures in Europe at an all-time high, German nuclear plants have become too hot to handle. The soaring mercury has forced authorities to switch off the reactor at one plant and reduce the
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Chlorine through the skin causes cancer
researchers have found an increased risk of bladder cancer due to exposure to chlorinated water through drinking, swimming and bathing. The study was published online in the January 15, 2006, issue
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The use of biological index of pollution (BIP) in assessing quality of rural water sources in Zaria, Nigeria
The biological index of pollution (BIP) which hinges on the responses of aquatic biota to pollution of water sources was used to assess the quality of some water sources in Zaria area, Nigeria. Water samples were collected from 15 stations comprising three open water sources (lakes) and twelve hand-dug wells on a monthly basis for a period of 24 months. Ten liters of the samples from wells were concentrated to 50 ml by filtering through 70 meshes per cm2 plankton net. Collections from the lakes was by means of dragging net over a 3 meter distance in the water.
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Conservation of wetlands in India: a profile
The wetlands, a term which includes water bodies of different types ranging from lakes, estuarine area, and riparian flood plains to tidal mud-flats, play a vital role in ensuring
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Mega projects or mega flops?
Various schemes have been thought of to tackle Madras' water scarcity.
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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
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Travails of a waterscape
<table width="20%" border="0" align="left"> <tr> <td><img src="../files/images/20080430/53.jpg" align="left"></td> <td><img src="../files/images/20080430/53_1.jpg" align="left"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#FF0000">SIDDHARTHA KRISHNAN</font> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>AND </b></font><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#FF0000">PRIYADARSANAN DHARMA RAJAN</font></td> </tr> </table> God's own country is an epithet commonly used fo
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HC directs govt to take steps for preserving tanks, rivers
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
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Preliminary deal reached on Great Lakes water
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
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Revive Chilka lake project in the pipeline
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
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Desiltation of Chilka for salinity, fish
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
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Water harvesting is no lasting solution
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,
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Mapping the resilience of international river basins to future climate change-induced water variability
<p>Transboundary watercourses pose a variety of challenges to the management of water resources. Basin-wide management approaches often clash with state sovereignty. Efforts in cooperatively managing shared water resources are therefore of great importance for the sustainable management of transboundary river and lake basins.