Studies find a salty past for Sasthamcotta Lake
Ignatius Pereira It got cut off from Ashtamudi Lake About 7,000 years ago Sasthamcotta largest freshwater lake in State Findings published in earth science journal
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Report of the Justice Patil Committee regarding privatisation of lakes, dated 10th Oct 2011
In a significant development, the Committee appointed under the Chairmanship of Justice Mr. N. K. Patil, Judge of the Karnataka High Court and Chairman High Court Legal Services Committee, in response
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Identification of potential glacial lake sites and mapping maximum extent of existing glacier lakes in Drang Drung and Samudra Tapu glaciers, Indian Himalaya
<p>The Himalayan glaciers feed major Asian river systems sustaining the lives of more than 800 million people. Though the rates of retreat of individual glaciers are uncertain, on the whole the Himalayan
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Measures to protect Sasthamcotta Lake
The government will take steps to protect the Sasthamcotta Lake, the largest fresh water lake in the State.
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding declaration and identification of Ramgarh Taal as a wetland, Uttar Pradesh, 09/08/2016
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Radhey Mohan Misra Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 09/08/2016. This application seeks declaration and identification of Ramgarh Taal
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Turkana wind power project yields 102MW
Lake Turkana Wind Power Company has started the injection of an initial 102MW into the national grid. The additional power forms 33 per cent of the total 310MW that the wind power farm has agreed to inject
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Lakes of Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru: current status, changes in distribution and recommendations for restoration
<p>This report by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), is based on a survey of the lakes dating back to the 9th century AD in Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru.
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Rules violated in Tirupananthaal lake desilting, allege residents
No supervision of work by government staff, they claim The desilting of Tirupananthaal Lake, one of the last surviving water bodies in Pammal Municipality near Tambaram, has begun as part of the local body’s efforts to carry out improvement works in the lake. However, a section of residents living around the lake suspect norms to have been flouted as government staff were not present to supervise the desilting. Officials made it clear they had not violated rules.
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Hussainsagar to be plastic-free
Hyderabad, April 27: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has declared the area surrounding Hussain Sagar Lake as
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Panchkula lake project being revived
Chandigarh: The Panchkula lake project initiated by Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), which had been shelved previously, is being revived at a tentative cost of Rs 18 crore following an advisory
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Relay satyagraha to conserve lake begins
KOLLAM: The Sasthamcotta Lake Protection Council started a relay satyagraha at Sasthamcotta demanding steps to conserve Asia
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दो माह में दो बार सामान्य से नीचे गिरा नैनी झील का जलस्तर
दो माह में दो बार सामान्य से नीचे गिरा नैनी झील का जलस्तरदो माह में दो बार सामान्य से नीचे गिरा नैनी झील का जलस्तर सरोवरनगरी की शान और जीवनदायिनी नैनी झील का जलस्तर चिंता का विषय बनता जा रहा है। पिछले
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71 more lakes handed over to BBMP
Satish Shile , Bangalore, April 21, DH News Service: Now the task of conserving and rejuvenating majority of the lakes in Bangalore is BBMP
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State to strengthen wetland research, conservation
Sensors would be installed at 10 strategic locations in the Chilika lake as a part of the monitoring system to telemetrically transmit data to the research centre on real time basis, every 15 minutes.
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CM for saving Keenjhar Lake
Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah while taking notice of pollution in Keenjhar Lake, which is due to downside industrialization and other contaminated water, with the result the fish and animals
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Survey finds several species of flora, fauna in Kaikondrahalli lake
Screen Grab of Kaikondrahalli lake The ongoing flora and fauna survey by green groups at Kaikondrahalli lake has led to the identification of a variety of new species. Around 43 species of birds, 26 species of reptiles and 3,000 plants comprising at least 33 varieties have been identified during the survey that started about seven months ago. Volunteers and local citizens were roped in to identify and list the various flora and fauna species.
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Mumbai’s water quality index is bad as air quality index
According to a survey by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) the water quality index of Mumbai is bad much like air quality index. According the survey Mumbai’s expensive real eastate is surrounded
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Warning bells in Ansupa Lake, Orissa
Ansupa Lake, one of the two freshwater lakes found in Orissa, is vanishing slowly. Another freshwater lake, i.e. named Saro, in Puri District, has already been wiped out from the wetland maps of Orissa due to anthropogenic pressure. (Correspondence)
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Overfishing "Annihilating" Uganda's Nile Perch - Govt
Overfishing on Lake Victoria has seen Nile Perch stocks drop 81 percent to 370,000 tonnes in 2008 from 2 million tonnes three years ago, "annihilating" the species, Uganda said on Thursday. Fishing is one of Uganda's leading export earners. The east African nation boasts four major lakes -- Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake George and Lake Kyoga.