CWRDM study finds most rivers highly contaminated due to lack of proper waste management As World Water Day is being observed on March 22, scientists claim that water in almost 83% of open wells and most of the rivers in Kerala is highly contaminated. This was revealed by studies conducted …
The Sabarimala pilgrim season will begin in two months. However, apart from a few bathing ghats and 100 new toilets, the project to abate pollution at Pampa River has not progressed much. Minister of state for environment and forests (MoEF) Jayanthi Natarajan had announced that the project has been sanctioned …
State told not to treat eco protection as a soft subject The State government has failed to implement various Centrally sponsored projects aimed at rejuvenating the Pampa, the Vembanad Lake, and the Kuttanad water system, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS) general secretary, has said. Mr. Nair told The …
Aggressive human intervention, especially indiscriminate sand mining in southern Kerala's major rivers such as the Pampa, the Manimala and the Achankoil, has driven almost all the tributaries of these rivers, which once used to facilitate agriculture activities and water transport in the region, to the verge of death. The worst …
Collector V.N. Jithendran, who is also the Executive Magistrate, has ordered the immediate removal and safe disposal of the waste accumulated on the banks of the Pampa in the downstream reaches of Arattu-kadavu at Pampa in the foothills of Sabarimala on Sunday. Responding to The Hindu report on Sunday exposing …
Amalabharathom programme at Sabarimala concludes Over 3,200 volunteers of the Amalabharathom campaign, attached to Mata Amritanandamayi Math, took part in a two-day cleaning drive which concluded at Sabarimala here on Sunday. A host of prominent people, including former union Minister O. Rajagopal; Amrita University vice chancellor P. Venkat Rangan; and …
The Revolutionary Youth Front has called upon the State government to implement the recommendations of the Assembly Committee on Environment to protect wetlands and paddy fields in Aranmula. In a statement here on Wednesday, Saleem P. Chacko, secretary of the organisation’s State unit, alleged that the promoters of a private …
During the season of water regattas a river here has almost dried up. The water level in the Varattar which links the Pampa and the Manimalayar has been going down for the past 25 years. Even during the monsoon there is no water flow in the 9.5-kilometre-long river. The sand …
Kochi: In the abode of Lord Ayappa, devotees seeking a darshan must take a dip in the Pampa. It’s dictated by tradition and it doesn’t matter that the river, also known as Dakshin Ganga, has become unfit for bathing. Studies conducted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board have found …
Environment directorate official inspects airport project site The row over the proposed private airport project at Aranmula has taken a new turn with the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) reportedly taking a serious view of the conversion of paddy fields and wetlands for setting up the project. The …
Reviving its preference for hydel systems as sources of sustainable power generation, the State once again is opening up investment opportunities in ‘green' power with the identification of 57 small hydro-electric projects that have a combined capacity to generate nearly 170 MW of power (more than 440 million units a …
Panel names erring government agencies Government agencies, including the Forest Department, Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) and the police, are contributing to the pollution and environmental degradation of the Pampa river by releasing untreated waste into the river system. A government-appointed committee to evaluate the environmental protection measures implemented in Sabarimala …
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Wednesday directed the Irrigation Department to ensure that waste accumulated in the Pampa river was removed and the natural flow of the river was maintained. The Bench comprising Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice C.T. Ravikumar directed the department to press …
The Central Travancore district of Pathanamthitta, especially its hilly tracts, is fast sliding into the grip of acute drinking water scarcity. The summer had an early onset in January. Wells and natural streams in the hilly areas of Ranni, Konni and Adoor started drying up from mid-January onwards, leaving the …
With a series of environmental problems and degradation threat looming large over the rivers Pampa and Achankovil in the wake of the recent Supreme Court order directing the Centre to implement the proposed river linking projects, Kerala Electricity Workers Federation (KEWF) has called upon the Government to expedite the proposed …
Both the Congress-led United Democratic Front Government and Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front Opposition in Kerala on Wednesday came out against the Supreme Court directive to the Centre to implement the river-linking project, holding that such a scheme was detrimental to the State's interests. Kerala had opposed …
The lingering fear that linking the Pampa and the Achencoil rivers in Kerala to the Vaipar in Tamil Nadu will spell disaster in the central Travancore region has come to the fore once again with Monday's Supreme Court verdict in the river interlinking case. The link project has been figuring …
The Pampa Parirakshana Samiti (PPS), a Kozhencherry-based prominent environmental group that has been campaigning for the cause of Pampa since the past two decades, have called upon the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take immediate steps to cancel the clearance granted for the proposed greenfield airport project …
Steps to augment sewage treatment and water supply will be taken up before the next season at Sabarimala besides improvement of roads and parking facilities, Minister for Transport and Devaswoms V.S. Sivakumar said on Tuesday. The Minister was speaking to the media after a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister …
The district administration will prepare a comprehensive action plan for the conservation of the Pampa, Manimala, Achenkovil, and Kallada rivers which course through the district, District Collector P. Venugopal has said. The support of local self-government institutions, government agencies, and non-government organisations (NGOs) would be enlisted, he said while addressing …
The proposed River Protection Authority law, which is now being vetted by the Law Department, will prioritise reinvigorating the Periyar, the Pampa, and the Bharatappuzha, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. Though all the 44 rivers needed protection, the government would initially focus on these three major rivers, Mr. Chandy …
