Water experts at an opinion exchange meeting yesterday emphasised the need for involving local people to save the Buriganga river from dying.

Addressing the function, they also demanded protection of the river at its upstream branches from pollution.

M.J. PRABU

Safe & secure: The farmer, Subbaian in his lush organic farm in Tamil Nadu.

The importance of good soil and clean water for raising any crop can hardly be overemphasised.

A soil with low fertility and a contaminated water source can make life very difficult for farmers.

ERODE: Farmers affiliated to the Tamizhaga Vivasayeegal Sangam and Kalingarayan Pasana Sabai protested in front of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board office and later locked it.

NEW DELHI: As hundreds of idols of Goddess Durga were immersed into the Yamuna on Vijay Dashmi day, environmentalists and water conservationists dismissed as

By Rashme Sehgal

New Delhi, Oct. 7: Delhi Lt. Gov. Tejendra Khanna, chairman, Yamuna River Development Authority, has finally announced a moratorium on future construction along the flood plain of the Yamuna.

DH News Service,Bangalore:

The Tungabhadra river basin is getting more polluted. A study done by the Pune based NGO Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), show alarming variations in the pH value and quantity of biochemical oxygen in water samples from the river basin.

Pune, September 29 Warkari leader Banda Tatya Karadkar, who was arrested on September 20 for leading the agitation against Dow Chemicals, was released from Yerwada Central Prison on Monday. The moment he stepped out, he vowed to resume the agitation against he project, which Warkaris allege would pollute the sacred river Indrayani.