Letters

Subsidy for a select few

Hussain Sagar goes to toxic waste

FOR the past five years Hyderabad has been trying to clean the Hussain Sagar Lake, separating the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

Neela Hauz to breathe easy

Work to restore the Neela Hauz lake near Vasant Kunj in Delhi has finally started. Delhi’s public works department (PWD) has started removing the construction debris it had dumped in the lake while building a six-lane bridge over it. Vasant Kunj residents had been protesting dumping of debris in the centuries old lake for the past two years. Residents said it was a pleasant sight now to see lines of trucks carrying away debris from the 46,415 sq m lake. An executive engineer of PWD said almost half the lake has been cleaned and the remaining work would be completed in a month.

Tourism deal

Polluted to the brim

Natural dumpsite

Waste from labs of Tripura University drains into a lake Tripura Central University doesn't need to worry about tonnes of waste that its science laboratories generate every day. Or so it seems. The university has turned a lake within its premises into a dumpsite. Several people within and outside the university depend on the lake. These people are worried.

Lease and lose

Karnataka forest department critiques model to save lakes

Contamination

Studies confirm poor water quality in Mumbai

New deal

the mix of salt and freshwater at Everglades in Florida, us, makes it the only place on earth where alligators and crocodiles co-exist. It has a massive network of lakes, creeks, swamps and rivers--and a sugar factory. Efforts are on to revive the wetland by closing down the factory that owns 75,670 hectares of land under water-hungry sugarcane plantation. The idea is to replenish groundwater and buffer the area against hurricanes, besides cutting the flow of agricultural chemicals.

Algae bloom worsens drought

A prolonged drought in China's Liaoning province has left 850,000 people short of drinking water and affected spring farming in many areas. According to the provincial drought relief headquarters, from January to mid-April, the region received 20 millimetres of rainfall, which is 73 per cent less than normal years. The drought has dried up 74 reservoirs and affected 1.3 million hectares of cropland. Liaoning is China's top grain producer.