The Karnataka High Court on Thursday accepted the report of a committee it constituted to examine the ground realities and prepare an action plan for the preservation of lakes in Bangalore. During the hearing of PIL by Environment Support Group, challenging the privatisation of lakes in Bangalore by the Lake Development Authority, the report on lake by committee headed by Justice N K Patil was
The green panel has rapped housing and environment department principal secretary for failure to provide a list of encroachments and buildings in catchment area of the Upper Lake even after four-and-a-half
BHUBANESWAR: To study the biological and geographic parameters of Chilika lagoon and its basin eco-system, the Space Application Centre of ISRO with support from NASA is all set to carry out a hyperspectral
The central zonal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has instructed Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday to remove solid waste in and around Shahpura Lake in every 24 hours. Hearing
Leachate flowing with rain water contaminates Mavallipura's lifeline Good rains after two years of drought are always a welcome proposition, but not for the residents of Mavallipura as the showers have only brought miseries to them.
The Bhopal bench of National Green Tribunal asked Masood Akhtar, Chhatarpur district collectorate to take action against shops and other illegal encroachments on the Kishore Sagar Lake, in drought-affected Chhatarpur, Bndelkhand within five days. Read text of this order issued on 25 September 2013.
A committee formed to look into the privatisation of management and rejuvenation of lakes in Bangalore has strongly recommended against the commercial involvement of the private sector in the activity.
Kumaragiri Lake was once a major drinking water source for Salem Upset over the continuance of pollution of Kumaragiri Lake at Ammapet in Salem city by a few polluting dyeing units of that locality, Salem Citizens Forum (SCF) has planned to organise demonstrations to condemn the alleged inaction of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) from Monday, November 4.
The Committee on Environment of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly headed by MLA Syed Aga Ruhullah today inspected Housing facility for residents of Behrar Colony and took stock of pace of progress
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhash C. Pandey Vs Municipal Corporation Bhopal & Others dated 28/10/2013 on pollution of Shahpura Lake, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh . Original Source:
Poorly managed drains, encroached catchment areas are culprits Heavy rain which lashed Bangalore for the last two days may have been a welcome development for a City reeling under a severe water crisis for the last two years, but they proved inadequate to fill a majority of lakes here.
A decade-and-a-half is a long time when it comes to the rapidly changing face of a city. But is it long enough to make as many as 21 lakes disappear from the city's map? Delhi seems to have lost half of
New Zealand's rivers and lakes were given the country's first ever national standards for water quality on Thursday -- although critics said the standards would allow some waterways to get worse. Water
The area of inland lakes in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau has expanded 26 percent in the past 20 years, according to new research results. The area of inland lakes in the region, which has an average altitude
California may ratchet up enforcement of drought-related pumping restrictions in slow-moving creeks and lakes under new rules being considered on Tuesday, prompting worry among farmers as the state enters
Pokhara sub-metropolis has initiated the process of removing water pumps used to supply water from Fewa Lake to different restaurants in the Lakeside area from today, after traders continued to defy several
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of B.L. Mishra Vs Collector, Chhatarpur dated 04/09/2013 regarding encroachment in the Kishore Sagar Lake. Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh.
Water-driven fracture propagation beneath supraglacial lakes rapidly transports large volumes of surface meltwater to the base of the Greenland Ice Sheet. These drainage events drive transient ice-sheet
The Karnataka High Court has issued a contempt notice to the state's Chief Secretary, S. V. Ranganath, for not constituting Lake Protection Committees as directed. A Division Bench of the Karnataka
Government agencies yet to take action to protect the 60-acre lake Residents of Keelkattalai are shocked and angry over the dumping of construction rubble into the Keelkattalai lake over the past few days. The lake, one of the few precious water bodies that hasn't, until now, been damaged by encroachment and pollution, presents a serene view to people travelling on the Pallavaram – Thoraipakkam Radial Road, say residents of Gandhi Nagar. Spread over 60 acres,
