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 us administration recently slapped a lawsuit on mining companies operating in the Silver Valley of Idaho for causing pollution. Over several decades, lead, zinc and other toxic metals have been leaching out of the tailing pipes that line the valley and the south fork of the Coeur d:lene river. …
researchers from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, have found a new technique to treat water in acid lakes that form when mining operations are terminated. After the closure of mines, the water that fills up the pits becomes highly acidic. The traditional method of neutralising the water involves the addition …
the world's second largest freshwater lake is in dire straits. Africa's Lake Victoria, the source of the mighty Nile river, has been beset by innumerable ecological irritants, which threaten to jeopardise the economic well being of the locals of the region. The list of problems haunting the lake - which …
Large-scale episodal mortality among the freshwater fishes of certain lakes of Bangalore City, Karnataka State, India occurred in June 1995. We conducted an intensive study of the Sankey Lake which is situated in Sadashiva Nagar of Bangalore city where fish mortality occurred on quite a large scale during June - …
Urban wetlands, the lifeline of Indias cities for centuries, protected by tradition and preserved by people, are being ravaged by sheer greed and neglect WHAT do the Consumer Action Group, Madras, the Citizens Against Pollution, Hyderabad, the Nagarik Marich and Mudiyali Fisherfolks Cooperative Society, Calcutta, and the Citizens Voluntary Initiative …
IT is intriguing to those familiar with the history of water resources in Indore that the city is now being forced to bring in from outside. The wells water and the tanks had been more than adequate once to meet Indore's water needs, Whenever the demand went up, the rulers …
AT THE heart of it is corruption. It is not as if they do not know that the lakes are important". This apt comment from actor Girish Karnad, who was speaking LORE at a rally to protest against the destruction of one of Bangalore's wetlands - Koraniangala lake encapsulated the …
Hemmed in by concrete houses in South Delhi lies a large the ground, once called the Haul Khas tank. it . years ago, this historic tank supplied water throughout In 1398, when Amir Timur had conquered Delhi, his Shalfuddin Yazdl wrote, "it is so wide that an arrow car, shot …
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally come up with a full-fledged plan to combat pollution at the Great Lakes on the US-Canadian border. The basin-of the 5 lakes, which Iretches across over 1,200 kilometres covering 8 states of the US and a Canadian province, provides drinking water to …
INCREASING population, unplanned growth of human settlements and tourists together appear to have taken a toll of the beautiful lake that gives the hill resort of Nainital its name. According to a recent decade-long study conducted by D K Pandey of the Dehradun-based Forest Research Institute, the water quality of …
THE Udaipur lakes are dying of asphyxiation. Fed by huge amounts of nutrients and organic matter, the lakes are covered with a carapace of water hyacinth and blue-green algae, the first indication of "accelerated eutrophication". Eutrophication is the slow and steady natural ageing process of any confined waterbody, and is …
NESTLED within the degraded Aravalli hills are Udaipur"s 5 lakes, easily the city"s greatest asset. Since 1678, these human-made lakes have provided revenue, recreation and water to the people crowded around their shores. Seven lakh tourists came last year to feast their eyes on their green waters, providing 50 per …
ABOUT 60 km from Udaipur lies a pristine lake in peril. Jaisamand is one of Asia's largest sweetwater lakes, measuring 54.4 sq km and dotted by 7 islands. It was founded in 1685 by Maharana Fateh Singh who dammed the Gomti river. Today, a squat hotel casts ominous shadows on …
Manchar, Asia's largest fresh water lake, is heading towards doom. Salinity levels in the lake, situated in Pakistan's Dadu district, have risen dangerously as saline water from the Salinity Control and Reclamation Project area continues to be drained into the lake. As a result, fish catches have declined sharply from …
MOST Ugandans living on the shores of Lake Victoria have stopped eating the fish teeming there -- their staple diet till the civil war erupted in neighbouring Rwanda and the lake became a watery grave. Upto 80 bodies an hour were found floating down the Kagera river, which flows into …
KOLLERU lake is no ordinary wetland. Located in Andhra Pradesh, it is one of the country's largest freshwater lakes and a bird sanctuary, hosting 193 species of birds and a variety of flora and fauna, including medicinal plants. However, Kolleru today is threatened by economic and industrial development, expanding fisheries …
EVER SINCE a 3-km straight-cut was dug into the Upputeru channel to speed up draining of water from Kolleru lake into the Bay of Bengal in 1972, soil erosion has plagued the tiny island of Chinna Gollapalem, situated where the lake waters meet the sea. The gushing waters of Upputeru …
EVERY DAY at 5 am, Sridevi picks up all the pots in her house in the Mandaveli slums of Madras city and places them at the end of the street, as she has been doing for the past 12 years. She must ensure that her pots are among the first …
IN APRIL 1983, the Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu governments signed the Telugu Ganga project agreement, under which Madras would get 15 tmc ft of water from the Srisailam reservoir between February and September. Government indifference and lack of funds delayed the project, but it has been revived recently. A …
