The price of haphazard development is paid by residents of BHEL Nagar and Amman Nagar, who have endured a persistent water stagnation problem for over 10 years now. Well into the summer, buffaloes find a cool haven in the water and sewage stagnant inside the colony. "The water dries for a few months from June or July. Since the layout of over three acres area was occupied from 1992, residents have had to deal with stagnant water two or three feet deep for six to eight months a year,' said Adhi Narayanan, Secretary, BHEL Nagar and Amman Nagar Association.

Polluted, poisonous and immune to popular efforts to enforce a clean-up: Tai Lake is a metaphor for the state of China's politics

The plain-clothes police are always there, watching Xu Jiehua. When she goes out, two of them follow by motorcycle. Sometimes an unmarked car joins them, tailing her closely on the narrow road winding past the factories and wheat fields around her village.

Probe on Baikal pollution: The Russian prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater reserve. The mill,

In a "green" state, an environmental disaster looms

The polluted Hirohalli village lake on the outskirts of the City now has rare visitors: the critically endangered spot billed pelicans.

STRESSING ITS NEED: Tiruvallur Collector Rajendra Kumar speaking at a function to launch water bodies' adoption programme at SRM Eswari Engineering College recently.

One thing Canada is not short of is lakes. It has so many that it can afford to set some aside to experiment on. And that is what Karen Kidd, an ecotoxicologist at the University of New Brunswick, has just done to a small lake in north-west Ontario. She has poisoned it in the name of science.