Flamingo habitat at Mithi needs to be protected'
Mumbai, July 22 Maharashtra Nature Park Dy Director says newly developing habitat should be made safe, secure for the birds For nearly a month, a vast stretch of the much-abused Mithi river
Mumbai, July 22 Maharashtra Nature Park Dy Director says newly developing habitat should be made safe, secure for the birds For nearly a month, a vast stretch of the much-abused Mithi river
<p>Powai Lake is an artificial lake, situated in the northern suburb of Mumbai. The lake was created in 1891 by constructing dam between two hillocks across Mithi River. Catchment area of the lake is about 600 hectors and water spread area at full supply level is 220 hectors. The lake water is used for non-potable purposes i.e. gardening and industrial use.</p>
Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to revise the danger level of Mithi River from 2.7 metres to 3 metres. Stating that the Mithi improvement project has facilitated faster flow of the river, civic officials said, there is no threat to the hutments and structures adjoining Mithi even if the water rises till the existing danger level.
Mumbai Nearly 75 Mumbaiites gathered near Mithi River to participate in the Wild River dance contest. Citizens, who gathered at Vakola nulla, recorded their dance on video cameras. The recordings will be uploaded on the website of International Rivers, a Berkeley-based welfare group working to save the rivers of the world.
Complying with the Bombay high court directivers to check and remove encroachments from along the Mithi river, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has issued closure orders to over 150
A politically well-connected builder fro the western suburbs is currently in the process of shifting out thousands of slum-dweller and godowns near the Mithi river on the Kurla side of the
Closure notices have finally been served to 57 commercial establishment that have been polluting the Mithi river. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has started slapping these notices on
The Maharashtra State Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, plans to have not one but two committees, one of them to study the Mithi river and its surroundings following the July 26 flash floods in
Rampant dumping of scrap into the Mithi at Kurla has undone all the effort to de-silt the river. The residents of Kapadia Nagar, Kurla (West), complained that the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development
Mumbai Chief Secretary J P Dange reviewed the progress of desilting, deepening and widening of Mithi river on Sunday along with Metropolitan Commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Swadhin Kshatriya. Dange said,
Municipal commissioner Jairaj Phatak on Sunday inspected the ongoing work at Mithi river after the Congress MLA from Kurla, Naseem Khan, expressed displeasure over the second phase of the widening project. Khan claimed that the work was moving slowly and demanded completion of the project before the onset of the monsoon.
Crawling ahead at snail's pace, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Wednesday surveyed and marked another stretch of slums for demolition near the Mithi river, as part of
To guard against any disaster situations this monsoon, the MMRDA opened its 24-hour Control Rooms on Friday, ahead of its pre-monsoon desiltating and Mithi-river deepening work. Five nodal officers will
The growth of water hyacinth-like plants in Mithi river near the international airport in Andheri has turned the stretch into a breeding ground for mosquitoes, complain civic activists. While activists
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has laid down a detailed programme to avoid water logging in the monsoon at sites which are under its jurisdiction. Speaking to reporters on
MUMBAI: The state government and the municipal corporation have to join hands and ensure that the flood prevention work on the Mithi river is carried out fully if Mumbaikars are to be spared the same fate which overtook the city in 2005 resulting in chaos and deaths of almost 1,000 people. A study report by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has pointed out that though a sum of Rs 1,600 cro
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has come up with an alternative method of protecting the Mithi river from encroachment, reclamation and siltation, after environmentalists protested against the proposal for concrete walls in a coastal regulation zone.
Heavy rains in the early hours of Wednesday brought back memories of July 26, 2005, to the residents of Mumbai when the Mithi river flowing along the suburbs of Mumbai breached its banks and flooded the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport and the low-lying housing colonies in its vicinity.
Water conservationist and Magsaysay Award Winner, Rajendra Singh, who was in Mumbai last week to talk about the Mithi, lists some of the steps that can be taken to revive the river The sources of the Mithi River
Mumbai: Four years after the 2005 deluge, which killed over 400 people, Mumbai continues to be at the risk of floods with a high possibility of disaster in future. In fact, it is the third city after Rio De Jeneiro and Shanghai that is most prone to disaster.