Lakes drying up as the scorching summer heat intensifies. But now, they are building bunds around the lake for people to walk, and this means almost a uniform increase in depth.” This design, dubbed as ‘soup bowl’ to help increase water capacity and suit fisheries, is inevitably hostile to migratory birds that usually flock to shallow areas within a lake. …
Sankat Mochan Foundation, which has been monitoring the quality of the Ganga water for over three decades, found in its latest study that levels of faecal coliform bacteria had risen substantially, while levels of dissolved oxygen had dropped. The study showed that levels of faecal coliform, a form of bacteria, in the Ganga had risen substantially, while levels of dissolved …
As the boat cruises along the banks, slurries gurgle dark black sewage into the Ganga, littered with plastic, carcasses and trash. Along Varanasi's ghats, lab tests have found bacterial contamination is now higher than the levels recorded back in 2014 -- when the Modi government launched its most ambitious Namami Gange initiative to clean up the river. In its reply …
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