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NGT disallows any construction around Bengaluru lakes
Policy matters this week Posted on 10 May, 2016 09:59 AM

No construction around Bellandur-Agara lakes: NGT

Residential complexes around a lake in Bengaluru (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
NGT seeks complete list of wetlands from States
Policy matters this week Posted on 26 Apr, 2016 05:16 PM

Submit complete list of wetlands: NGT to States

Deepor Beel in Assam (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Good monsoon expected this year
News this week Posted on 18 Apr, 2016 09:20 PM

Good southwest monsoon expected this year as El Nino declines

Downpour in Bihar (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
Drinking water becomes a luxury for Maharashtrians
News this week Posted on 29 Mar, 2016 03:06 PM

Maharashtra reeling under its worst water crisis

Queuing up for water (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
More than 90% of Bangalore's lakes are polluted or encroached
A study by IISc on the city's water bodies argues that poor governance, lack of a sense of belonging, and poor implementation of regulatory norms has caused this situation. Posted on 11 Mar, 2016 10:48 AM

India has had very little to celebrate on World Wetlands Day this year as it has lost its wetlands at an alarming rate of 38% in just a decade (1991-2001).

Rachenahalli Lake in Bengaluru (Source: Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar)
World Culture Festival poses threat to the Yamuna
News this week Posted on 07 Mar, 2016 10:11 PM

Activists oppose Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's World Culture Festival along the Yamuna flood plains

Yamuna river in New Delhi (Source: IWP Flickr Photos)
UP Coca Cola plant in trouble again
News this week Posted on 26 Jan, 2016 02:03 PM

CPCB finds Coca Cola plant in Hapur pumping toxic water into a pond

Coca Cola bottling plant (Source: S. Subramanium via Hindu)
11,000 acres lake land encroached in Bengaluru
News this week Posted on 19 Jan, 2016 11:29 AM

Panel finds Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) and private builders responsible for 11,000 acres of lake land encroachment

Rachenahalli Lake in Bengaluru (Source: Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar)
Nagpur Union launches world-wide campaign against much hyped water privatisation
New this week Posted on 05 Jan, 2016 11:32 AM

World-wide campaign against impacts of water privatisation

No 24x7 water supply for Nagpur
Life and water at Rachenahalli lake
It provides natural resources to people living around it, acts as a sink for fisher folk cleaning fish or women doing laundry, and receives treated sludge from new residences around it. Posted on 22 Dec, 2015 02:04 PM

Rachenahalli is one of the few living lakes in north Bangalore. It is connected to water bodies upstream and downstream, particularly Jakkur Lake on the north-east. Both these lakes have been rejuvenated at substantial costs by the Bangalore Development Authority over the last decade.

Rachenahalli Lake (Source: Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar)
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