Restoring lakes not an engineering task: How some communities did the job

Local bodies and activists in Bengaluru, Pune are coming together to deal with lake pollution, de-silting, encroachment 

Restoring lakes

CSE and NEMC release roadmap on how to clean Lake Victoria

Comes out with analysis on environmental problems of lake after joint meeting with stakeholders

Manipur govt orders floating homestays off Loktak; Locals demand rollback

Sharp reduction in fish production in lake forcing them to take up alternative means of livelihood

How civil engineers lead lake rejuvenation in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

Pollution, solid waste dumping, flooding and encroachment issue plagued Coimbatore’s Kurichi Lake and Bengaluru’s Mylsandra …

Urban lake: A reflection of its watershed

Critical to any lake ecosystem, the urban lake’s watershed is the surrounding land area that drains into that particular lake

Village women clean only freshwater lake in Odisha, revive tourism

About 30 women from Malabiharpur village cleared weeds from Ansupa lake and created a source of sustainable income by reviving boating facility

Sikkim floods: Glacial lakes hold paleoenvironmental traces. What happens to them during outbursts?

Moraine-bound lakes like Sikkim's South Lhonak contain geological archives called varves

Paradise lost

Cameroon’s ‘exploding lakes’: Disaster expert warns deadly gas release could cause another tragedy

Thirteen of 43 crater lakes on Cameroon’s Volcanic Line are deep & large enough to contain lethal quantities

Cleaning Dal Lake

How Ethiopia and Kenya have put a world heritage site in danger

The lake inflow hydrology has already changed, which means that nutrient inflows and their distribution through the lake have also been affected

Sikkim floods: Why wasn’t early warning system set up at glacial lake known to be highly vulnerable? Experts ask

South Lhonak Lake that burst was one of the fastest expanding lakes in the region & its dangers were not unknown

Simply Put: Residents come together to clean Tangra lake

Healing touch

House committee submits report on Dal lake's revival

‘76% of Lake Victoria’s endemic biodiversity at risk of extinction’

IUCN report cites pollution, over-harvesting of resources and land clearance among primary threats

Mexico

Water, Africa’s Gold: Kenya’s urban slums need water, even as lakes Victoria, Turkana in trouble

Urban poor in Kenya bear brunt of water scarcity due to a number of reasons, even as trans-border lakes are on the verge of dying

Lake Victoria: CSE lays out strategy to manage water quality in Tanzania

Startegy for Mwanza city suggests greater focus on Nyashishi river needed, connecting households to sewer lines and waste segregation

‘Commercial interest cannot drive lake conservation in Bengaluru’

High Court panel frowns on handing over of city lakes to private companies

‘Climate change may increase risk of glacial lakes bursting, Sikkim-like disasters may spike’

Down to Earth spoke to Kalachand Sain, director, Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, to understand the causes of the Sikkim glacial …

Citizen involvement may clean a Bengaluru lake

The initiative to rejuvenate the Kundalahalli lake will be funded by CSR contributions

Sikkim: Threat of South Lhonak lake bursting was forewarned by researchers two years ago

Twenty-one other glacial lakes in the Teesta river basin show potential threat  

As Tanzania’s Lake Rukwa continues to dry up, NGOs focus on sensitising locals

Shared Resources Joint Solutions (SRJS) initiative has been launched to build institutional capacity of civil society organisations

Karnataka wants citizens to take responsibility of maintaining and protecting lakes 

The Karnataka Lake Conservation and Development Authority has proposed to make locals registered lake wardens or adopt a portion of the lake to …