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Plan to clean up city lake remains on paper
Hyderabad, April 14: The Rs 300-crore Hussain Sagar Restoration Project aided by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation has made little progress though five years have passed since its launch. This massive project meant to clean sewage, industrial effluents and accumulated toxic wastes in the lake began in March 2004 was expected to be completed in three years.
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Lake conservation plan flawed
Tourism is priority; not ecology as the Rajasthan government prepares to award contracts for restoring Pichola lake near Udaipur
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Untreated sewage threatens future of subsisting lakes
Experts blame BWSSB for flaws in sewerage network This is evident in the fact that Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) is unable to stop inflow of untreated sewage to the water bodies even
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Mumbai mulls diverting irrigation water for quenching thirst
Mumbai: With no sign of the monsoon, water levels in the lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are running low forcing the government to consider diverting water meant for agriculture to the city.
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Age-old water management skills score over modern methods
Though major civilizations in the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa (the old world) were found on the banks of major rivers, human beings, over the millennia, have been known to colonize places with
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Conservation of lakes: Issues & applications
This paper focuses on the Bangalore wetland region as a case study and analyzes the current situation and scope of the conservation in the catchments area. The major threats to the Bangalore lake originate from human activity in the catchments, resulting in alterations in the water balance and water quality.
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Uganda: How Sand Mining Is Destroying Lake Victoria Catchment
The expansive Lwera wetland on Kampala-Masaka Highway, which stretches about 20 kilometres, is a major water catchment area that connects several rivers and wetlands in Gomba, Mpigi and Kalungu districts
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Africa: Germany Boosts Energy Supply Efforts With Rwf13 Billion Grant
The Government and the Federal Republic of Germany, yesterday, signed a bilateral agreement worth €15 million (about Rwf13 billion) to support energy supply in the country and the Great Lakes region.
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Over 9 million Lake Chad residents in urgent need of food aid- UN
This is according to the UN which says that half the residents in the region are facing chronic food insecurity and malnutrition as violence continues to escalate. The fighting is blamed on Boko Haram
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The plight of New Zealand’s freshwater biodiversity
New Zealand’s freshwater habitats including rivers, lakes, estuaries and other wetlands; groundwater and geothermal ecosystems support a unique array of flora and fauna. Freshwater is New Zealand’s greatest
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Kuttanad Package to get Rs.1,000 crore this year
<p>Rs.3,500-crore full package to be implemented in 3 years Comprehensive plan to clean up Vembanad Lake New high-yielding rice variety developed THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The government will earmark Rs.1,000 crore for the Kuttanad Package in the revised Budget for the current year. It will also chart out a comprehensive plan to clean up the polluted Vembanad Lake.
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Bid to improve water quality in Hussainsagar
With the delinking of Kukatpally nala from Hussainsagar, the Telangana State Pollution Control Board (TSCPB) has initiated steps to bring down the pollution level in the lake. The state pollution watchdog
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Eco-camp to be revived at Sipakuda
The Orissa Tourism Development Corporation (OTDC) has approached the Forest department to develop an eco-camp at Sipakuda island near Rambha in Chilika lake. Besides islands which have been named as Breakfast, Honeymoon, Somolo, Ghantasila, Chhalikakuda and Gopakuda inside the lake, the mouth of the Chilika near Sipakuda is an added attraction for tourists, who come to the lake round-the-year f
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Present state of the three tidal inlets of the Pulicat Lake: facts from remote sensing and field surveys
A recent scientific correspondence in these columns noted with concern that one of the tidal inlets of the Pulicat Lake has been considerably narrowed, which could be detrimental to the lake. But a more recent satellite image of the area, which is presented here, does not indicate any reason for raising such an alarm.
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Wetland or wasteland?
The Vembanad lake, the second largest wetland in India, is in a state of precipitous decline.
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City's lakes to figure in Sweden meet
AHMEDABAD: Kankaria and Vastrapur lakes of the city will become exemplary in an international conference to be held in Sweden. The stories of the development of both the lakes will be told in a workshop on urban ecology there. A team of professionals from Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept), representatives from Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Self Employed Women'
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Makeover for Ranmal Lake
JAMNAGAR: With a view to beautify the city and provide people with a place for recreation, Jamnagar Municipal Corporation plans to develop the heritage Ranmal Lake, also known as Lakhota Talav', in line with Kankaria Lake Front Development Project at an estimated cost of Rs 32 crore.
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HUDA to make the lakes cleaner and greener
Cleaner lakes and greener parks await Hyderabadis. The highly polluted lakes under the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) limits will be restored and turned into blue lakes with green parks
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HUDA to make the lakes cleaner and greener
Cleaner lakes and greener parks await Hyderabadis. The highly polluted lakes under the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority (HUDA) limits will be restored and turned into blue lakes with green parks