Is fishing permitted in City lakes? Yes, simply because there is no law prohibiting it. Bengalureans can take up fishing as a pastime and he/she cannot be booked for it.

The court had earlier directed civic agencies to come up with a plan to create sewage treatment facilities to deal with the “poison lake” created behind the fort.

Parliamentary standing committee on science and technology, environment and forests urges the environment ministry to give funds to Tamil Nadu to rejuvenate all the lakes including the one at Ooty under the National Plan for Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kishore Samrite Vs. Union of India & Others dated 11/08/2015 regarding conservation of lakes in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh with special reference to Devi Talab.

Javadekar, who chaired a meeting of Bengaluru MPs and MLAs on rejuvenation of lakes here on Tuesday, said his ministry would fund the rejuvenation if the State government took affirmative steps to

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed Shillong Pollution Control Board (SPCB) to submit a detailed action taken report along with status report within four weeks on actual ground initiativ

As head of the Department of Environmental Conservation, Joseph Martens oversaw the decision to ban hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York State.

Question raised in Lok Sabha on pollution in Lakes/Rivers, 21/07/2015. The water quality of rivers, lakes & other water bodies is regularly monitored by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in collaboration with State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) through a network of 2500 monitoring stations in 28 States and 6 Union Territories. This includes 1275 monitoring stations on rivers and 281 monitoring stations on lakes, tanks & ponds, which cover 445 rivers as well as 244 lakes, tanks & ponds.

Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Dr. Alankrita Mehra Vs. Union of India & Nine Ors. dated 16/07/2015 regarding marriage gardens polluting Upper Lake, Bhopal

Worried over rising air and water pollution, people living in cities, particularly Bengaluru, want more action from the state forest, environment and ecology department.

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