Shettykere, which until a year ago provided a safe haven for winged visitors and where people enjoyed boating, is now choked by sewage water flowing from multi-storeyed apartments in Subramanyapura.
No longer a favourite spot: Shettykere lake choking with hyacinth.
Commotion prevailed at Tolleaband-Benaulim on Monday afternoon after local youth assembled to protest against dumping of restaurant waste in the lake.
What has agitated the local youth is that the Tolleaband area
Biranji lake, the water resource for Hunasehalli, Mavinaguli, Kallugudde, Haliyaur and other vilages, has been contaminated as coffee pulp is being released to it.
Villagers have warned that a protest will be organised, if officials do not take necessary steps to prevent people from releasing coffee pulp to the tank.
Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur while reviewing the actions being taken for improvement and development of the Upper Lake and Lower Lake said that if the works are being constantly monitored and efforts are made, everything will be possible. There is nothing impossible in this world, he said.
A treatability study was conducted to determine the most effective bioremediation strategies for the decontamination of sediments dredged from industrially polluted Gandigudem Lake. Microcosm experiments were performed with the addition of a microbial consortium and
The government has undertaken a project to control pollution at Gulshan-Baridhara Lake in Dhaka with a view to ensuring environment-friendly life for the city dwellers.
The government has undertaken a project to control pollution of Gulshan-Baridhara Lake with a view to ensuring environment-friendly hygienic life for the city dwellers.
THE piped water you get at home could be laced with toxins if a proposal by five municipalities and a town panchayat to set up a compost yard in Kuthambakkam village comes through.
