Water in news on April 16

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around water

‘The Persian Gulf is a sensitive issue in Iran’

Amir Masoud Aghababaeian is an Iranian film-maker, originally from Isfahan and based in Tehran. He is the director of ‘Mermaid’, a …

Sewage pond called Mansarovar

To restore Shahpura lake, also known as Mansarovar, Bhopal Municipal Corporation must innovate its sewage treatment system

Climate change may have shaped ancient West Asia, finds study

Region was wetter in the past, study says

Powai Lake dying

Climate change fuelling conflict in Lake Chad Basin: Report

Shrinking natural resources due to adverse weather heightening tensions, says human rights group

Saving city lakes

To counter the rapid decline of its lakes, Karnataka is creating a new authority with powers to fine and imprison encroachers and polluters. Will …

Living on the edge

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 22, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 9, 2022)

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How some poachers became protectors of birds in villages around Chilika

Sensitisation activities by wildlife officers helped former hunters to turn a new leaf and become guardians of migratory birds visiting …

Carcass of Spinner dolphin found in Odisha

The recovery of the carcass has taken the number of dead marine animals in Odisha in the last five months to six

Odisha resumes evicting illegal prawn gherries in Chilika

29 of 97 acres of prawn culture pond area cleaned on day 1; drive to continue for few more days

Odisha village still reels under wrath of Cyclone Fani

Around 2 lakh people depend on the Chilika Lake for their livelihood, which is also home to 261 species of fish, 28 species of prawns and 34 …

Glacial lake keeps disaster managers on toes in Sikkim

Floods caused due to outbursts of glacial lakes are a matter of concern in Sikkim Himalayan region

Nigeria hunger crisis deepens, spills over into Lake Chad Basin

Some 7.1 million people are now severely food insecure across Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria

Pulicat Lake threatened

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Eco-tourism museum for Maracaibo lake

The panacea in a lake

Rediscover Wular ‘sea’ to mend valley’s flood woes

The lake colony

Call them the "lakers". Some 10,000 of them. Parts of the Dal (land and water) belong to them. And when they feel the need to make a …

Almost 50,000 birds counted at Chilika lake on May 25

Habitat improvement, availability of food and eviction of prawn gherries in the lake had caused more birds to flock to Chilika this year

Dolphin numbers have shrunk in Odisha, reveals Census

Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary was found to be having the largest number of the animals, though the figure was much less than in 2018

Kashmir: High organic load in Jhelum causes fish to come ashore

As fish wash ashore, experts point to environmental degradation of rivers and lakes in the valley

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