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 …
The contaminated Saipem Lake dominated the gram sabha meeting of Navelim Village Panchayat on Sunday with villagers demanding that the Margao Municipal Council stop issuing occupancy certificate to housing projects not connected to the sewerage project. The villagers have threatened to launch an agitation on the NH-17 and initiate legal …
Almost seven months after the Delhi High Court slammed the Delhi government and sought explanation from Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta for declaring that the Public Works Department-owned Mayapuri lake in Naraina was
The once Picturesque Saipem lake bordering Margao and Navelim will be finally desilted by the government. PWD Minister, Churchill Alemao has disclosed that the Saipem lake would be desilted by the Water Resources department in the near future. Admitting that the lake has been left contaminated by the rampant discharge …
S Lalitha, Bangalore, Nov 18, DHNS After a nearly two-year long exhaustive study of major water bodies in and around the City, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has come out with this key finding: 82 pc of the lakes and tanks in the City are in conditions ranging …
HYDERABAD, Nov 15: Sindh Minister for Environment and Alternate Energy Shaikh Mohammad Afzal said on Sunday he would try to review the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report of the RBOD-II because experts believed the project
Hyderabad, Nov. 8: Plans are afoot to clean up the waters of the lakes. Mr Zafarullah Khan, executive engineer (lakes department) with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA), says there are plans to set up 40-odd sewage treatment plants so that untreated sewage is not dumped in the lakes. He …
Sewage waters have again come to haunt the authorities in the Commercial capital. This time, the picturesque Dovondem lake at the northern entrance to the city has been left contaminated by the rampant discharge of sewage, so say locals. The locals strongly feel that sewage waters find its way in …
UPVAN LAKE: The TMC is busy working towards cleaning several lakes in the city, as part of its lake beautification project. One of the lakes selected as part of the project is Upvan Lake. As part of the cleaning work, the TMC plans to divert the waste water and drain …
The Palike has also filed a case against two villagers, Srinivas and Dhanraj for allegedly assaulting the Joint Commissioner (Yelahanka), Virupaksha Mysore and Executive Engineer Rangaiah on Wednesday. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has initiated a series of measures to address the woes of Mavallipuram villagers, who are facing a …
Tension ran high in Mavallipuram village near Yelahanka on Wednesday morning when villagers laid seige to the Ramky garbage management facility and locked up the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) personnel and the facility authorities. They were angry over the official inaction over the problem of high toxic material seeping …
The truth is that the Dal dwellers are hardly responsible for this vanishing ecosystem - they didn't cut the forests, build bunds, construct on the banks or dam the rivers. It is the way our nation has industrialised that we cannot see nature as an ecosystem, but only as resources.
R. Krishnamoorthy Open defecation, dumping of waste have caused hygiene problems Bad condition: A view of Chettiyeri lake, which was a drinking water source for Ariyalur sometime ago. ARIYALUR: Once the main source of drinking water for residents of Ariyalur town, the Chettiyeri lake is in a state of utter …
Navelim villagers on Sunday demanded the intervention of the government to save the once picturesque Xelpem lake polluted by the discharge of sewage waters from neighbouring Margao city. Agitated villagers sought to know why the government has been going slow in working out a solution to the problem despite the …
A study carried out by the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) has reported heavy metal pollution in Vembanad Lake and the rivers emptying into it. The Vembanad wetland system is straddles Alappuzha, Kottayam and Ernakulam districts. It lies at sea level, and is separated from the Arabian Sea by …
The 13th Century Hauz Khas lake, which was to be developed as a tourist attraction as per a 2003 High Court order, is dying a slow death. When Newsline visited the spot, the water level in the 80,000-square metre lake was low and the water was covered with filamentous algae, …
