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. …
The High Court yesterday issued a set of directives to the government for preserving and protecting Gulshan-Baridhara and Gulshan-Banani lakes in the capital from illegal encroachments and structures and to shield the environment. The HC said surveys should be conducted to demarcate the lakes. It asked the government to identify …
One of the major steps involved in developing lakes was, providing detailed information to the Lake Development Committees, opined coordinating officer of the District Planning Unit Munegowda. He was speaking at a workshop organised on
While the state is still awaiting adequate rainfall, most of the lakes, ponds and water bodies are driying up fast. What has made matters worse for the aam admi, mainly farmers, is the erratic power supply beacuse of which the government-owned tubewells have also come to a standstill. Under the …
Sustainable planning ensuring community participation is needed to face the challenges of safe drinking water during any disaster in the city, said the experts at a workshop yesterday. They said water crisis in the city might worsen and immediate attention is a must for adopting necessary policies and strategies. The …
Zafar Futehally Opinion In the light of the manifest failure of the authorities to protect lakes from encroachment, the expertise and resources of civil society should be utilised, writes Zafar Futehally WHITHER BANGALORE'S LAKES? The Doddagubbi, a 50-acre lake was home to storks, egrets, blackwinged stilts, but today lies ruined …
MUMBAI/SHAHAPUR/NASHIK: While Saturday's heavy rains brought a smile to the faces of Mumbaikars, the city's six catchments did not get the showers that could lessen Mumbai's water woes. However, officials and former civic commissioners remained hopeful that Mumbai would not have a water shortage by the end of the monsoon. …
Construction of a new housing project adjacent to the Khurpa tal by the Army Welfare Housing Organization (AWHO) has caused afresh hue and cry among the villagers in the surrounding area when Dr. Ajay S. Rawat, Professor of History in Kumaon University filed a PIL against the illegal boring of …
Water hyacinth growing in the lakes absorbs the nutrients (phosphorous, nitrogen) being released to the lake water from untreated sewage discharged in the lake, for their growth and reduces the nutrient concentration in the lake water. After a period of time these plants sink to the bottom of lakebed and …
BHUBANESWAR: The much awaited Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (ICZMP) will get a boost in the near future with a strategic approach to include the livelihood, safety, gender and local issues in its implementation stage through a coordinated way to benefit all the stakeholders. The ICZMP, which will be implemented …
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Clean Water Act does not prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from allowing mining waste to be dumped into rivers, streams and other waters. In a 6-to-3 decision that drew fierce criticism from environmentalists, the court said the Corps of Engineers had the …
India will spend more than $290 million cleaning up two iconic lakes in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK), which have been polluted during decades of neglect and a separatist revolt, India
Shujaat Bukhari SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh visited Kashmir
MUMBAI: Once the rains do arrive, do not expect the water cut to be immediately lifted, say civic officials. "It takes at least 30 to 40 mm of rainfall for the lakes to reach a satisfactory level and for us to start supplying water comfortably again,'' said deputy municipal commissioner …
Consumption of highly contaminated and toxic water of Manchhar Lake continue to spread gastroenteritis, diarrhoea, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, C and typhoid among fishermen and their families living in the lake
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has started consultation with several institutions to find out ways to check erosion of coast at Puri and Konark. The institutions with which the State Government is in touch are Indian Institute of Oceanography, Goa, Central Water Power Research Station, Pune, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, …
