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. …
Hyderabad Aug. 21: Over 20,000 encroachments dot the 250-odd lake beds in and around the city. And this is all happening because the officials prefer to turn a blind eye to the illegal construction activities. The problem has been further compounded with the Hyderabad Urban Development Authority failing to demarcate …
Tatyana Sinitsyn It was a historic event. On July 29, humans reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world's deepest and cleanest fresh water lake, for the first time ever. Even if it had not reached the lake floor, the dive would deserve an entry in the Guinness Book of …
K. Venkateshwarlu HYDERABAD: All but reduced to cesspools, restoration of polluted, filth-ridden lakes, ponds and wells has always been a challenging, time-consuming and expensive process. Not anymore, as a novel German technique promises to make the clean-up process a little bit easy. A German group, Lavaris Lake, has come up …
Nature knows better how to keep the water sources clean and nourishing. Our traditions, also could maintain their water sources for the past 10,000 years. Water quality problems and water scarcity- both are due to pollution of air, caused by increase in the use of fossil fuels. This produces rain …
DH News Service, Kolar Gold Fields: A proposal of Rs 24 crore has been submitted to the government for desilting Bethamangala lake, stated MLA Y Sampangi in KGF. The work aims to solve the drinking water problem of KGF people. Sampangi was speaking after launching the borewell works at Parandahalli …
Bangalore: The government is planning to constitute a task force, which will be entrusted with the protection and conservation of around 150 lakes in the limits of BBMP, Bangalore Urban and Rural districts, Excise Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu said on Wednesday. Presently these lakes come under the jurisdiction of Lake …
Surinsar, July 16 The ambitious plans of developing Surinsar Lake has not only run into rough weather but also the fresh water body has been shrinking alarmingly, thanks to a standoff between the Tourism and the Wildlife Department. After the directorate of tourism had spent Rs 1 crore in the …
DH News Service, Shidlaghatta: MLA V Muniyappa expressed his displeasure over the return of about 70 per cent of the funds sanctioned by the World Bank, for the desilting and revival of lakes and ponds in Shidlaghatta taluk. He was speaking after inaugurating the Nallenahalli mini water supply scheme and …
Pune, July 2 PMC considering city company's membrane filtration plan to provide 50 lakh litres a day A project to procure potable water from Pashan lake is under active consideration of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Membrane Filters (India) Pvt Ltd, a Pune-based company working in the field of filtration …
The popular "Jalavihar" on the banks of Hussainsagar lake adjoining the Necklace road has come under the scrutiny. The state government has constituted a three member committee for periodical inspection of the "Jalavihar Project" to avoid possible ecological imbalances due to illegal construction by company in violation of the approved …
The water quality data on rivers, lakes, ponds, tanks and groundwater locations being monitored under the network is evaluated against the water quality criteria and the monitoring locations in exceedence with respect to one or more parameters are identified as polluted and require action for restoration of water quality.
Evaluation of different physico-chemical parameters of surface water samples, covering the entire industrial area of Hosur (Tamil Nadu), is carried out to assess the suitability of the water for irrigation purposes. Samples are collected during August 2005 to June 2006. Results of the present investigation are compared with the Wilcox …
Sasthamkotta Lake is Kerala's biggest fresh water lake. The lake is facing degradation due to anthropogenic activities such as directing human waste, soil erosion due to destruction of vegetation and dumping of waste from hotels and slaughterhouses. The water samples from different stations were analysed from a period March 2006 …
To enable half yearly performance review of the programmes of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, the Planning Commission, Government of India, on 13th June 2008 constituted an Expert Team to visit three wetlands viz. Wular Lake in J&K;, Chilika Lake in Orissa and Vembanad Kol in Kerala, for assessing …
Bangalore: Ministers for Information and BWSSB Katta Subramanyam Naidu and Medical Education Ramachandra Gowda on Wednesday assured members in the Upper House that the government would not privatise lakes in and around Bangalore City. During the debate on the issue, the Ministers also promised that they would take steps to …
Hyderabad, June. 24: A promise made by the former Chief Minister, Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu, to local villagers is hampering the Kolleru lake restoration. He had assured them that the boundary will be reduced to the third contour and this has prompted them to oppose the moves by forest officials …
Divya Gandhi PCCF's status report submitted to High Court In an assessment of the impact of privatisation on Bangalore's lakes, the State Forest Department has described the Lake Development Authority's programme of leasing out lakes to private developers as one that "seems to be taking all the ills of modern, …
Kolleru lake would be developed at a cost of nearly Rs 860 crore over five years as the international non-governmental agency, Wetland International South Asia, has prepared proposals to that effect at the behest of the state government. Of the total cost proposed for development, a whopping Rs 500 crore …
The Centre has approved projects for development of Fateh Sagar Lake in Udaipur at a cost of Rs.42 crore and improvement of the Walled City area in Jaipur at a cost of Rs.29 crore. The Centre will bear 70 per cent of the cost of the lake plan under the …
The re-opening of the Shubhadya canal in Keraniganj to navigation is a sign of how corrective measures can be taken in certain crucial areas. The canal, in a state of disuse for the last six years because of the depredations of a section of unscrupulous people, will now once again …