Expert panel opposes desilting of Mysuru's Kukkarahalli Lake

A two-member committee recommended that the existing polluted water should first be pumped out and then the lake should be filled with clean …

NGT orders closure of industrial units in Bellandur Lake area

No industry would be allowed to operate in the lake area unless effluent emissions are under permissible limits. Industries found violating the …

Bengaluru should celebrate World Water Day every day

Contrary to popular imagination, water resources have been misused rampantly in the urban centres, not rural areas

Bengaluru's largest lake catches fire yet again; waste burning, untreated sewage to be blamed

Locals have time and again approached the civic authority to stop the discharge of chemicals and other toxic substances from factories and …

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

Not an ideal immersion

Instead of artificial tanks, devotees use lakes and large water bodies for immersion of idols of Lord Ganesh

Citizens submit action plan to save Bengaluru's Bellandur Lake

If local authorities give considerable attention to the proposed action plan, the situation of Bellandur Lake could change for the better

Dry cleaning Hussainsagar

Telangana plans to first empty Hyderabad's great lake and then refill it with rainwater. Experts say it is nothing but a harebrained plan

Citizen involvement may clean a Bengaluru lake

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

Karnataka government reveals sad state of Bengaluru lakes

Thirty per cent of encroachment on lakes has been done by government agencies alone, state government press release says

Bangalore lakes leased out

Sunset over Udaisagar

The lake in Udaipur is under immense pressure and could die in the near future

In Srinagar's footsteps?

Unplanned urbanisation is killing lakes that have saved Raipur from floods for over 1,000 years

Letters

Bengaluru’s lakes go bad as authorities deny responsibility

Agara, Bellandur and Varthur lakes are facing the dual threat of pollution and encroachment

Cadavers in the water

The thousands of corpses of the brutal gun-and machete civil war in Rwanda have been dumped into the second-largest fresh water lake in the world.

Fouled waters

Even cattle dare not ingest the water of the Naini lake

Tougher controls

East Africa

Endangered lake

Digging disaster

Cleanup plan

Authorities wake up

Polluted legacy

Toxicity down under