From butterfly to caterpillar

Stung by unplanned growth, Naini Tal -- once a queen among hill resorts -- is being divested of her riches.

Real estate on water

Lakes were critical for Indian cities. They prevented floods and recharged groundwater. Today, these holes in the ground are either lucrative …

The key: empowerment

Arouse people's interest in governance

TOURISM & HANDICRAFTS: Backs to the wall

Militancy's most distressing casualties

WATER: Fading glories

Kashmir's dying lakes are choking their dependants

FORESTS: Losing its soul

Militancy, weed

... and sewage -- a strong political will is needed to get rid of them?

Lake agriculture

An ingenious and indigenous way of cultivation

Floating stock

Morning in Dal: commotion behind the scenes

Travails of a waterscape

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

Bitter sweet

Who will save the fish?

Fish deaths in Gujarat's lakes point at acute negligence

Toxic lakes

Cancerous waters

Polluted lakes