Indian government classifies wetlands as wastelands despite the fact that they serve as reservoirs of ecological diversity. During times of floods, they act as sponge, which hold water and release

two more lakes of Bangalore have joined the list of polluted waterbodies. A socio-economic study conducted by the Indian Institute of Sciences ( iis ), Bangalore, in collaboration with the

Many flamingos were recently found dead on the shores of Lake Nakuru and Lake Bogoria in western Kenya. Researchers attribute their death to pollution. "We have identified several toxic metals

The Gujarat high court has ordered the Ahmedabad's civic authorities to recharge the city's lakes for increasing groundwater level. Ahmedabad had 204 lakes in 1960, but now only 130 are left,

Two German environmental groups fighting against Airbus Industrie's encroachment of the M

Cambodia has passed a legislation to make the Tonle Sap Lake a biosphere reserve, which will protect it from development and exploitation of resources. The lake is southeast Asia's largest freshwater

With water scarcity gripping many parts of the country, people are talking about rainwater harvesting, but none about wastewater, which can also be recycled to boost our fast depleting water resources

Devices to reduce the emissions of toxic gases from two Cameroon lakes will be put in place by a team of 10 scientists and engineers from the us , France and Japan. The emission of these

The Ramsar Convention of IUCN held in 1971 in Iran raised global

Kolleru Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in the districts of East and West Godavari of Andhra Pradesh. The major population centres in the Kolleru Lake region are the 148 villages of which 50 bed villages and 98 belt villages. All bed and belt villages in lake region have atleast one drinking water pond.

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