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Nilgiris rivers hit by pollution: Study
Health hazard:A section of the Ooty lake is clogged with waste. Says domestic and industrial pollutants in the waterbodies are a threat to people The rivers feeding the Bhavani and the Moyar basins
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A poison pill
One thing Canada is not short of is lakes. It has so many that it can afford to set some aside to experiment on. And that is what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at the University of New Brunswick, has just done to a small lake in north-west Ontario. She has poisoned it in the name of science.
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On Environment Day eve, residents clean up Powai lake
Mumbai Hundreds of residents took to the streets on Friday to clean up the 300-acre periphery of the Powai lake, to rid it of polythene bags and garbage. Citizens also gathered in large numbers at the Panch Kutir Powai lake Ganesh Ghat to ask civic officials why the desilting was not completed before the monsoon.
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MP cong worried over vanishing lakes, ponds
The Madhya Pradesh Congress unit has expressed serious concern over the gradual destruction or total disappearance of many lakes and ponds in different parts of the state and announced that a campaign
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HC for policy decision on polythene ban
The High Court was today informed that around 130 quintals of polythene has been seized by the authorities in five months since January this year. A division bench of the High Court that heard a Public
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Katraj lake: Tourists spot crocodile, civic body to check
The crocodile fear at Katraj lake has once again come to haunt the citizens as few tourists claimed that they had spotted crocodile during the visit. However, the administration which is refusing to halt boating in the lake will undertake search operation on Tuesday to ascertain whether the information was correct.
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Toxic lake: Court asks DDA to provide maps of water body
Irked after civic agencies failed to answer its queries about the history of the “toxic” water body behind Tughlakabad fort, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA)
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Govt claim on visible progress false: IISc team
While the officials from various civic agencies and Urban Development Department are making tall claims that visible progress is being made on the ground in clearing weeds and silt from Bellandur lake,
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Water quality studies of Sasthamkotta lake of Kerala
Sasthamkotta Lake is Kerala's biggest fresh water lake. The lake is facing degradation due to anthropogenic activities such as directing human waste, soil erosion due to destruction of vegetation and dumping of waste from hotels and slaughterhouses. The water samples from different stations were analysed from a period March 2006 to August 2006 to investigate the water quality parameters.
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Pollution engulfs Gulshan Lake
Gulshan Lake and its surroundings continue to be polluted as household wastes and sewage find their way into the water body. Local people and environmentalists have alleged that for lack of enforcement
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Malawi: High Court Rebuffs Malawi Law Society On Salima- Lilongwe Water Project- Injunction Refused
The High Court in Zomba has rejected granting of an injunction to halt the Lake Malawi water supply project being done by Khato Civils on behalf of the Lilongwe Water Board (LWB). The application was
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution in Rivers/Lakes, 19/07/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution in Rivers/Lakes, 19/07/2016. The programmes of NRCP & NGRBA (till 31/07/2014) have so far covered polluted stretches of 43 rivers in 200 towns spread over 21 States
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution in Rivers/Lakes, 19/07/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution in Rivers/Lakes, 19/07/2016. The programmes of NRCP & NGRBA (till 31/07/2014) have so far covered polluted stretches of 43 rivers in 200 towns spread over 21 States
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New Himalayan lakes pose strategic threat
As receding glaciers form new lakes across the Himalayan frontier, a new dimension has been added to the strategic paradigm. Geological and climatic considerations apart, many of these lakes lie close
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Rural Kenyans protect wetlands to curb water scarcity
Armed with a hoe and Wellington boots, George Wandera planted bamboo seedlings in neatly dug holes along the banks of a stream on his farm that feeds a nearby lake in western Kenya. "I've never tried this
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AWF building valley dams to tackle Mburo's human-wildlife conflicts
For over a decade now, the farming community living around Lake Mburo National Park has been in a bitter relationship with Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). The conflict is rooted to unending inter-human-wildlife
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'BBMP commissioner issued circular on Green Tribunal order'
The circular that irked the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday was issued by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad, which had ‘clarified’ the NGT order. While
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Lakes become cesspools
Before it became a hi-tec city, Hyderabad was famously known as the city of lakes. There are over 532 water bodies in and around the state capital with Hussainsagar Lake being the most prominent one. However, rapid urbanisation in the past few decades has all but destroyed the water bodies in the city. The unending discharge of domestic and industrial effluents and sewerage has turn-ed the once-pristine lakes into cesspools. All this has also caused widespread ecological degeneration.
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200 fish found dead at Rewalsar lake
Sundernagar : As may as 200 fish were found dead this morning at Rewalsar lake. For the past 16 years such kind of incidents were detected at the lake, which is of religious importance.