Order of the High Court of Gujarat in the matter of Samsuddin Jainulabiddin Shaikh & Others Vs The State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/05/2025. A petition was filed by 58 people who are residing near Chandola lake, Ahmedabad. The petitioners have constructed hutments along the periphery of Chandola lake. …
Gurgaon: Environmentalists have warned the state government against going ahead with its plan to dig an artificial lake in Sector 72A and stop concretising drains to better equip the city in dealing with heavy rain. Deconstructing the government's argument that an artificial lake would both hold rainwater and recharge groundwater, …
Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades. Now the lake, once one of the largest in the Middle East, looks more like a gigantic crime scene. …
California's Lake Tahoe is getting warmer by about 15 times its historic average because of global climate change, according to scientists. This could alter the lake's ecology. Geoffrey Schladow from the Tahoe Environmental Research center (TERC) at the University of California Davis explained that the occurrence of rising air temperatures …
The Standing Committee on Water Resources (2015-16) present the Tenth Report on “Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies- Encroachment on Water Bodies and Steps Required to Remove the Encroachment and Restore the Water Bodies”. The Committee initially took up the subject “Repair, Renovation and Restoration of Water Bodies” in …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Southern Zone Bench, Chennai) in the matter of Nimmala Ankaiah Vs Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change & Others dated 02/08/2016 regarding activities not permissible under ESZ Notification in the lands falling within the Eco Sensitive Zone (ESZ) limit of Pulicat Bird Sanctuary …
BHOPAL: Collector-appointed four teams are yet to get cracking on verification of pillars in Upper Lake, leaving them with far less time to do the job. Three days, including Sunday, would go waste, going by collector Nishant Warwade's statement that "teams will start work from Wednesday and only 5 days …
Bhopal: Forget about demarcating encroachment free 50-metre-zone beyond the full tank level right now and focus on verification of submerged pillars in Upper Lake, stated National Green Tribunal, central bench, on Thursday, while hearing a petition on conservation of Upper Lake. Four teams, which have been appointed by Bhopal collector …
A division bench of justice Abhay Oka and justice Amjad Sayed has directed the collector while hearing a public interest litigation filed by social activist Shiv Shankar Joshi. The Bombay high court has asked the district collector suburban to verify and submit a report by September 20, on whether dumping …
Cost-intensive conventional sewage treatment plants have often stopped civic agencies from investing in treating effluents entering lakes. Now, the lake division of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in association with some private players has come out with a cost-effective natural osmosis technique to filter sewage. Using the corporate social …
Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has decided to take up the preservation of Sasthamcotta Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in the state, giving top priority, and would explore the possibilities of establishing a statutory authority for its conservation, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said. The need for an ordinance to establish a …
KLCDA officials unaware of their job; staff shortage hits work Once a city of thousand lakes, Bengaluru is now left with just 210 of them; 80% of these are in a pathetic condition. It has been over a year since the Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority (KLCDA) was formed. …
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad High Court on Monday asked the Bhagyanagar Ganesh Utsav Samiti and the state government to take steps to ensure that only upto 15-foot-tall Ganesh Idols are installed at pandals this year. A division bench comprising acting Chief Justice Dilip B. Bhosale and Justice P. Naveen Rao, while …
WILCZYN, Poland (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In early summer, the Wielkopolska region in western Poland looks like a scene from "The Hobbit" with intense green fields and lakes surrounded by dense forest and pretty cottages. But there is growing disquiet in this rural idyll with more and more summer houses …
The Mysore Science Foundation conducted a nature walk for students on the premises of Kukkarahalli lake here on Sunday to provide greater exposure to the participants to the world of birds and environment. K. Manu of the Mysore Amateur Naturalists (MAN) was the resource person and explained the importance of …
After nearly three decades of depending on silted water from Lake Cohoha in southern Rwanda, Mukahigiro Davita, one of the residents living in the villages along the banks of this lake, now fetches water free of sand, soil and mud. Mukahigiro’s new ray of hope is as a result of …
The Kanto region may experience a serious drought this summer, possibly triggering a raft of restrictions, due to an “unprecedented” shortage of water in lakes and reservoirs supplying the area, officials warned Tuesday. Although the region expects decent rainfall over the next few days, hopes remain slim that it will …
The authorities have been filling Karan Lake using tubewells for six months as the Rs 1-crore pipeline laid to provide water to the lake from the Chamarkhera canal has been damaged by farmers at several places. The flow in the Western Yamuna Canal had been restricted about six months ago …
Climate change will have large impacts on water resources and its predictions are fraught with uncertainties in West Africa. With the current global drive for renewable energy due to climate change, there is a need for understanding the effects of hydro-climatic changes on water resources and hydropower generation. A hydrological …
No new constructions will be allowed in buffer zones around lakes in Bengaluru urban and rural districts, said Congress MLA K B Koliwad. Koliwad, who heads a Legislative Assembly committee to look into tank encroachments, told reporters in Bengaluru on Wednesday the committee had initiated a survey around lakes in …
Bhopal: A proposed survey of the full tank level (FTL) of the Upper Lake that would also zero in on illegal encroachments with 50 metres of the lake is yet to take off. Five days after district collector Nishant Warwade summoned the Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) over survey of Upper …
