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. …
Shyam Ranganathan KARAIKAL: Groundwater recharge and conservation of Cauvery water are important for the tail-end region of the delta. And the man-made lakes created by the Karaikal district administration serve both purposes, officials say. Being close to sea, Karaikal does not have good groundwater supply due to seawater intrusion. Engineers …
Work on beautification of the Line Tank Lake, in the heart of the state capital , which had begun way back in 2006, will commence once again. In a board meeting of the Ranchi Regional Development Authority (RRDA), the capital city
The State High Court on Tuesday directed the Lake Development Authority (LDA) not to enter into fresh agreements enabling private parties to own lakes. A division of the HC bench, comprising Chief Justice PD Dinakaran and Justice VG Sabhapathi, took the State government to task, observing that the government was …
Bangalore, dhns: In a bid to curb encroachment of tanks, the minor irrigation department has taken up a project to fence 3,600 tanks across the State coming under its jurisdiction. Minor Irrigation Minister Govind Karjol told reporters in Bangalore on Thursday that the five year project will cost Rs 600 …
By G Manjusainath, DH News Service, Bangalore: The Karnataka Lake Development Authority (LDA) has been projected as a villain for the poor state of the lakes across Karnataka... But its so-called failure was apparently forced upon it. Reason: The State budget had only Rs 3.15 crore for the Authority, mandated …
The processes that control climate in the tropics are poorly understood. We applied compound-specific hydrogen isotopes (D) and the TEX86 (tetraether index of 86 carbon atoms) temperature proxy to sediment cores from Lake Tanganyika to independently reconstruct precipitation and temperature variations during the past 60,000 years. Tanganyika temperatures follow Northern …
Environmentalists warn that invasive species disgorged from ships' ballast tanks have put the Great Lakes near an ecological tipping point. But rules enacted this year require all inbound ships to flush their ballast tanks with seawater, allaying most fears about more invasions of the five lakes, which collectively hold one-fifth …
The most important water resources are wetlands like lakes and reservoirs. Apart from being sources of water, lakes are highly productive ecosystems. Coastal lakes like Chilika lake and inland lake like Ansupa lake, Orissa are very important water resources. Ansupa lake is the largest very old fresh water lake of …
This study was driven by two objectives: to develop a framework and methodology for assessing the outcomes of conservation-poverty reduction initiatives and to apply it to such initiatives in wetlands to understand conditions and methods that can support the integration or balancing of ecosystem conservation with poverty reduction. The study …
V Gangadharan | ENS Chennai, CONTINUOUS flow of sewage into the Chitlapakkam Lake in the southern suburb of Chennai for over 12 years has turned it into a big reservoir of filth and dirt, besides contaminating the groundwater. After putting up with it for years, people of the town panchayat …
Water is not distributed evenly over the globe. Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world's available fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, local variations within countries can be highly significant. Less than 3% of the world's …
WATERING DOWN Lucknow: As if the controversy involving dumping of municipal solid waste around an ancient lake in Smriti Upvan was not enough, a survey done by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has led to the discovery of yet another lake which though exists in the land records can
