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. …
bhopal's Upper Lake is in danger. Bhopal Municipal Corporation (bmc) has accused the Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation (mpstdc) of polluting the lake, a protected site under the Ramsar treaty on wetlands. bmc says over 10 motorboats owned by mpstdc and another 100 paddleboats at the Bhopal boat club …
The Kabartal wetland situated in the upper Indo-Gangetic flood plains in northern India is significant because of its hydrological and ecological services, and the socio-economic and cultural values that it represents. Despite being designated as a wildlife sanctuary, this wetland is under threat from anthropogenic pressures. As in the case …
every summer, pollens fly past Lake Van in Turkey. Pollens scattered in the air by various means get deposited on the lake's bed. Then a layer of mud covers it. This phenomenon repeats itself every year. An inch-thick layer of lime
Freshwater basins are vulnerable to human-induced change for a number of reasons. The change detection study of Ansupa lake, Orissa was carried out by using multi-temporal satellite data clearly indicates the decrease in wetland area. Due to high anthropogenic pressure, the wetland is shrinking day-by-day. Finally, for restoration efforts to …
Court order on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari District for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plants. See also http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/Kanya_Kumari.htm
Valentine's Day threatens the planet's ecology, says a recent study. Roses sold during Valentine's Day in the uk are being grown at the cost of the ecology of Kenya's Lake Naivasha, says David Harper, an ecologist at the University of Leicester. Horticulture has long been a booming trade on the …
goa town planning minister resigns: Embroiled in a controversy over the Goa State Regional Plan 2011, the state's town and country planning minister, Atanasio Monserrate, resigned from the cabinet on January 3, 2006. In less than a week, the Goa chief minister, Pratapsinh Rane, sworn in BJP legisator Manohar Azgaokar …
NAINITAL town's Naini lake is shrinking and its water becoming increasingly murky. The quality of water in the lake, which is the sole source of drinking water for the people of the town, has deteriorated alarmingly. The discharge of sewage into the lake and inappropriate construction activity in the lake's …
PIL on public auction for leasing out the public tanks in Kanyakumari District for the purpose of cultivation of lotus plants. See also http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/Kanya_Kumari.htm
The Veli lake is the smallest among the backwaters of Kerala. The partially treated sewage and the completely untreated industrial effluents are the main sources that brought undesirable changes in the lake. For the present study three stations were fixed in the lake to test the physicochemical features (April 2000-March …
The influenza virus can survive for thousands of years in frozen lakes and might be picked up and carried by birds to reinfect animals and people. After their release, these viruses can cause new infections and spread pandemics, researchers recently reported in the Journal of Virology. "We have found viral …
Water from the Guanting reservoir, Beijing's fourth largest drinking source, was not fit for human consumption or irrigation during the month of October, the Chinese capital's environmental protection agency reported in its latest monthly water quality report. Water from the reservoir did not meet the number five standard, the lowest …
there are conflicting claims over the distribution of water of the Rajsamand Lake by residents of Rajnagar township in Rajasthan and the farmers there. The conflict began after the Water Distribution Committee of the lake decided to distribute water in a manner that did not go down well with the …
Known to be the second largest artificial lake in Asia, Rajsamand was built over a period of 15 years from 1662 to 1677. Rana Raj Singh, the then ruler of Mewar, undertook construction of the lake as part of a drought-relief programme to provide employment and also to protect his …
Seen from the outside, Antarctica is a desert, frozen and all but lifeless. Dig below the surface, however, and you will find deep secrets. Thousands of metres beneath Antarctica's forbidding facade, at the place where ice meets rock, lies a land that is exotic, dynamic and above all, wet. Water …
the Sikkim government has come out with a notification delegating power to local communities for the protection of lakes in the state. But doubts have been raised about its legality. "The rising problem of solid waste management had made these guidelines necessary,' says M L Arrawatia, a senior forest officer. …
A team of scientists based in Japan and Germany has found an unusual lake of liquid co2 beneath the seabed, says a recent National Geographic report. The co2 lake, discovered by Fumio Inagaki of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka and colleagues, was first reported in …
the Manipur government recently tabled the Manipur Loktak Lake (Protection) Bill, 2006, in the state assembly to protect the lake from degradation. The bill is likely be passed in the ongoing budget session. Together with this, the state government also sent the Planning Commission a Rs 400 crore-proposal for the …
A new breed of polluter is causing havoc in Lake Tahoe, a freshwater lake in Sierra Nevada, on the border between the us states of California and Nevada. The lake's bed has a two-inch coat of Canadian geese droppings. The bird takes refuge in the lake when they moult their …
