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 …
Government has given top priority for execution of the much sought-after Sabarimala Master Plan with the sole aim of ensuring better basic facility at the pilgrim centre where as many as the State’s population congregate during a short span of two months every year, said Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy. The …
Mata Amritanandamayi Math is to extend its popular cleaning project, ‘Amala Bharathom’, to Sabarimala as a part of the much sought-after massive sanitation programme of the State government at the pilgrim centre. In a statement issued here on Friday, Vice-chairman of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Swami Amritaswarupananda, said the Math would …
Water level in River Pampa, on the foothills of Sabarimala, witnessed a sudden spurt around 8.15 p.m. following heavy downpour in the forests, on Wednesday. The river breached its banks following flash floods and the vehicle parking lots at Pampa-Triveni, on the banks of Pampa and the Pampa Manalpuram were …
‘Residents of Pampa basin face health risk due to river pollution' People residing in the Pampa river basin up to Kuttanad are exposed to grave health risks during the ‘Mandalam-Makaravilakku' pilgrimage season since the river gets increasingly polluted then, N.K. Sukumaran Nair, Pampa Parirakshana Samiti general secretary, has said. The …
Pilot project prior to a programme for four rivers Rs.90-crore conservation project for Vembanad Lake Rs.15 crore set apart to replaceold water pumps PATHANAMTHITTA: Water Resources Minister P.J. Joseph said here on Monday that the State government would implement a comprehensive model project to protect the Pampa and its banks …
PATHANAMTHITTA: The Legislative Committee on Environment chaired by Rajaji Mathew Thomas has expressed concern over pollution of the Pampa at the foothills of Sabarimala during the Mandalam- Makaravilakku pilgrim season. Holding a sitting at Pampa on Monday, Mr. Mathew said it was high time authorities think of setting up modern …
Radhakrishnan Kuttoor PCB collects samples from appam, aravana plants Unholy treatment: Waste from the Devaswom mess found dumped in the Sabarimala forests. SABARIMALA: The pollution graph at the Sannidhanam is fast rising with filth from the toilet complex, donor homes, appam and aravana plants and devaswom and police mess, flowing …
Two endemic fish varieties - catfish and eel - are feared to have disappeared from the Pampa. No individuals of these species have landed in the nets of fishermen for the last three years triggering suspicion of their population loss. The catfish (Nadan Mushi) and the eel (Malanjil) were once …
Water Resources Minister N.K. Premachandran said here on Thursday that the government had taken steps to protect the Pampa river. The Minister was inaugurating the work on the viewers' gallery at the finishing point of the Uthrittathi boat race near Sathram Kadavu on the banks of the Pampa at Aranmula. …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa Action Plan (PAP), which had never really been put to action in the past eight years, will now be co-opted into a larger comprehensive Pampa River Basin Watershed Development Programme which will include within its scope not just the revival of Pampa but also the social and …
G.K. Nair Aggressive human intervention, especially the indiscriminate sand mining in southern Kerala's major rivers, such as Pampa, Manimala and 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 …
Pampa Action Plan: The picture shows how the human intervention has narrowed down the river. G K Nair Implementation of the Pampa Action Plan (PAP) and similar projects for other three rivers, Achancovil, Manimala and Meenachil, is inevitable for making conservation of the Vembanad Wetland System (VWS), which has recently …
G.K. Nair The Pampa Parirakshana Samithy (PPS), a voluntary environmental organisation, has urged the Kerala Government to conduct a comprehensive study on the functioning of the existing sewage treatment plant (STP) and the Pampa river water treatment so as to assess the actual contamination levels in the river water during …
Radhakrishnan Kuttoor PATHANAMTHITTA: District Collector T.T. Antony has banned chemical treatment of the water in the Njunangar stream, a tributary of the Pampa, under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The ban order was issued on Saturday night to the Travancore Devaswom Board, which, along with the Kerala …
KANDARARU Rajeevaru, who recently took over as the high priest of the Sabarimala Temple, on Friday appealed all pilgrims to avoid use of plastics to minimise environmental damage to the surrounding hills and the River Pampa. Inaugurating the website www.cleansabarimala.com, he told Express that puja items like honey and sandalwood …
Radhakrishnan Kuttoor PATHANAMTHITTA: The direct treatment of water in the Njunangar stream, a tributary of the Pampa, using ferrous chloride has kicked up a controversy. Experts and environmentalists say the system will pose a health hazard as the downstream of the river has several drinking water schemes. The chemical used …
Reema Narendran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In what could be described as a major potential health hazard, the bacteria in the Pampa river is becoming resistant to almost all the antibiotics that are used commonly, a study report by a team of scientists in the Kerala University found. Pampa being the major halting …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Pampa River Basin Authority Bill, 2009, which will lead to the constitution of an Authority for the management of activities related to the conservation of the Pampa river basin, was piloted in the Assembly on Monday. ``The Bill is just a beginning. A comprehensive River Protection Act will …
