MUMBAI: The rain gods' generosity this year might have ended the need for water cuts, but there is still a problem that is making BMC officials perspire: how to tackle and minimize the massive loss of water from evaporation. Between the end of monsoon in 2008 and the beginning of the rains in 2009, the city's lakes lost nearly 50,000 million litres of water due to evaporation.
A little out of Srinagar, in a spectacular setting amidst snow- capped mountains , lies one of the smallest but beautiful lake in the valley, the Manasbal lake. Ironically this beautiful lake has
Twice as much autumn rain and early winter ice helped Lake Superior, the biggest of North America's Great Lakes, bounce back from record low water levels reached last year. The deep, cold lake on the Canada-US border -- the largest freshwater body of water in the world by surface area -- rose about 31 cm (1 foot) in seven months, with half of that in April alone as the spring thaw melted heavy winter snowfall that arrived late in the season.
Pramod Panwar | TNN Palanpur: Nakki lake is one of the biggest attractions for visitors to Mount Abu. Surrounded by green hills, the lake is very popular for its boat rides.
Bathers in search of Europe’s cleanest waters for a swim may want to consider landlocked Luxembourg, sandwiched between Belgium, Germany and France. The grand duchy’s 11 bathing sites, which include
Siberia's Lake Baikal has warmed faster than global air temperatures over the past 60 years, which could put animals unique to the world's largest lake in jeopardy, US and Russian scientists said. The lake has warmed 1.21 degrees Celsius (2.18 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1946 due to climate change, almost three times faster than global air temperatures, according to a paper by the scientists to be published next month in the journal "Global Change Biology."
Bangalore, As many as 12 of the City
The two lakes of Madhya Pradesh, viz., the Upper Lake of Bhopal and the Sagar Lake at Sagar, which were proposed to be included in the National Lake Conservation Scheme of the Union government could
MUMBAI: The BMC may have started preparing for the worst for this summer but the situation at the six lakes that supply water to the city is in fact much better compared to what it was at the same time last year. A weak monsoon so far this year has given officials jitters but there is 1,74,295 lakh million litres of water in the lakes compared to 71,520 million litres last year.
Nearly 300 residents of over 10 societies near Charkop lake, a 50-year-old water body, fear that construction on the lake is going to adversely affect them in the coming monsoon. In February, the residents had raised a red flag over partial filling of the six-acre lake for a housing project. Consequently, on February 20, the Mumbai Suburban Collector's office issued a notice to stop the land-filling till further notice and ordered a high-level inquiry into the issue.
V. Venkatasubramanian APOLOGY FOR a waterbody: A pool of water near Teacher Nagar at Orikkai village panchayat in Kancheepuram serves as a proof that once a sprawling lake existed in that place.
R. Arivanantham Proposal to revive Jambukottapatti Lake in cold storage Great loss: Paddy damaged because of lack of proper irrigation, near Pochampalli.
K. Manikandan Veeraraghavan lake takes the cake in destruction AWAITING ATTENTION: The damaged outlet point of Veeraraghavan Lake in Tiruneermalai. CHENNAI: Residents and environmentalists in the southern suburbs of Chennai have alleged that local bodies and government agencies are inactive on the damage caused to waterbodies in this area.
<p>Submission of comppliance report by Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam in the matter of Original Application 116/2014 in the matter of Meera Shukla Vs Municipal Corporation, Gorakhpur & Others dated June 15,
- Volunteers launch a clean-up drive at water body hours before showers It was double delight for the Dhakuria Lakes on a day that began with a two-hour clean-up drive and ended with the summer
The Kapra lake is being mercilessly exploited by water pilferers round the clock. The lake is a reliable source of groundwater for the residents of Kapra but will not remain so if the exploitation
Close on the heels of the Jakkur lake issue in which the Bangalore Development Authority had started forming sites in the lake's catchment area, the Lake Development Authority has chanced upon two
The Ambattur Municipality's canal project to release untreated sewage-mixed Thangal Lake water into the Korattur Lake has invited sharp criticism from councillors and residents alike.
बेंगलुरु की वॉर्थूर झील के आसपास का इलाका सोशल मीडिया पर 'नए कश्मीर' के रूप में जाना जा रहा है। शनिवार को एक बार फिर यहां के लोगों को 'बर्फबारी' का सामना करना पड़ा। दरअसल यह पहाड़ों की बर्फ नहीं बल्कि
An agreement which defines acceptable use of water from North America's Great Lakes has been thrashed out by farmers, industrialists, environmentalists and politicians. The Great Lakes in Northeast America are a huge natural resource but fears have been raised that piping the water to parched areas of the USA would lead to ecological disaster in the long term. The Great Lakes Compact aims to strike a balance between the needs of the region's industry and ecology.
