Lake Pollution

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding the deplorable condition of a water tank, Golconda Fort, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/06/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …

Lake stinks but beckons rare birds

The polluted Hirohalli village lake on the outskirts of the City now has rare visitors: the critically endangered spot billed pelicans. Industrial sewage and domestic waste, construction debris along with carcasses of animals and birds and religious offerings end up at the lake. But the winged visitors are undeterred by …

Plan to make lake adoption a mass movement

STRESSING ITS NEED: Tiruvallur Collector Rajendra Kumar speaking at a function to launch water bodies' adoption programme at SRM Eswari Engineering College recently. In an initiative seeking to make protection of ponds, tanks and lakes a mass movement, 10 water bodies across Tamil Nadu were adopted recently by Neer Exnora. …

Physico-chemical studies of Lake Jaisamand and Lake Pichhola - A comparative study

Water bodies are subject to many important changes in due course of time. Therefore, a comparative study on Lake Jaisamand and Lake Pichhola were undertaken from July, 2004 to April, 2005. (2007)

A poison pill

One thing Canada is not short of is lakes. It has so many that it can afford to set some aside to experiment on. And that is what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at the University of New Brunswick, has just done to a small lake in north-west Ontario. She has …

CDC criticised for delaying report on environmental health

The US Centers for Disease Control has been accused of withholding data related to health risks in and around the Great Lakes area. But the agency says the report, pairing toxin concentrations with human health concerns, which was due out last year, had "deficiencies'.

Golf course putting holes in Nal ecology

The 18-hole golf course close to Nal Sarovar, that is driving an unfettered property development near the bird sanctuary, threatens to upset the delicate ecology there. Environmentalists say that the amount of fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and other chemicals required to maintain this vast, artificially created, landscape is a threat to …

Lawmakers claim Great Lakes report was 'suppressed'

Lawmakers are again asserting that the Bush Administration is meddling in science. House Science Committee Democrats charge that federal officials have suppressed a report on potential health threats from pollution in the Great Lakes. They also say officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, …

Pollution killing fish in Sukhna

Chandigarh, February 20 Officials of the UT forest department today found dead fish floating at the regulator end of the Sukhna Lake. Ecologists attribute the phenomenon to the rise in pollution. "A small number of fish have died apparently due to pollution. The possibility of the fish dying of a …

Wailing over a murdered lake: the Badha

Badha lake at the periphery of Fazilka town has dried up. The Badha lake, with its fresh water source and green surroundings was the attraction for establishing the boating station at this place. Now that it was dried up and is likely to be never change with water from Sutlej. …

Evaluation of biomonitoring approach to study lake contamination by accumulation of trace element in selected aquatic macrophyte

A biomonitoring study was carried out at Kanewal reservoir, an internationally important wetland listed in Asian Directory of Wetlands, designated as a "Wetland of National Importance' and a proposed community reserve of Gujarat State, India, to ascertain the degree of trace element contamination. The study focused on assessment of trace …

Biodiversity of zooplankton communities in Clive Bazaar and Talankur Lakes, Arcot, Vellore

The present study was designed to assess the nature and present status of the two permanent Ranipettai reservoirs viz., Clive Bazaar and Talankur Lakes aeas, Arcot, Vellore with special reference to zooplankton biodiversity.

Silt spells trouble for Sukhna lake

Sukhna lake in Chandigarh is steadily shrinking. Siltation and commercialization of the surrounding area are taking their toll on the lake. "Sukhna has become a pond and the administration is just sitting over it,' says M N Sharma, former secretary, Chandigarh administration. Sukhna is a rainfed lake, which was built …

Neermahal: palace on shrinking lake

In 1930, the ruler of the then princely state of Tripura commissioned the British company Martin and Burns to construct a summer resort for him. The Maharaja got his palace nine years later: in the middle of a lake. It was aptly called Neermahal

Muddy waters

IT IS not often that Whiting, Indiana, makes the national news. But Indiana's plan to let bp, a British energy company, expand an oil refinery there, possibly increasing pollution in Lake Michigan, has raised hackles not just in neighbouring Illinois but all the way to Capitol Hill. Barack Obama, a …

Muddy waters

The murky rules for keeping the Great Lakes clean IT IS not often that Whiting, Indiana, makes the national news. But Indiana's plan to let bp, a British energy company, expand an oil refinery there, possibly increasing pollution in Lake Michigan, has raised hackles not just in neighbouring Illinois but …

Bangalore lakes on lease

civil rights groups have protested against privatising lakes in Bangalore. The Lake Development Authority (lda) of Bangalore has leased out a few lakes, including the Hebbal lake

Lake Michigan gets dirtier

The us state of Illinois has reproached environment regulators in Indiana for permitting a bp refinery near the Illinois-Indiana border to dump more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan. bp refinery has been exempted from Indiana environmental laws to clear the way for a us $3.8 billion expansion, which …

EU agrees on cleaner rivers, lakes

back in 2000, there was a strategy (the Water Framework Directive, wfd) to deal with chemical pollution in water. Now, in 2007, steps are being taken to establish overall environmental quality standards (eqs) to protect rivers and lakes. On June 28, the Luxembourg meeting of the council of the European …

Eco tourism museum for Maracaibo lake

Artists, scientists, writers, teachers and entrepreneurs in Venezuela's northwestern state of Zulia have set up a foundation to sponsor an eco-tourism museum. At the heart of their endeavour is Maracaibo lake, the largest in South America, covering more than 12,000 sq km. The lake was the epicentre of the region's …

Alga bloom: China sacks officials

China has sacked five officials for "dereliction of supervision' and "inadequate work' after green algae covered the country's third largest lake, the Taihu, triggering a drinking water crisis for millions. The foul-smelling blue-green algal bloom choked the lake in the eastern province of Jiangsu towards late May, and left tap …

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