Hyderabad: The road to hell is paved with good intention. Once the GHMC dewaters the lake, pollutants from the lake can flow downstream into the next inter-connected lake, and eventually find their way into the Musi river, which not only ruin the river but also the agrarian and fishery development alongside its banks. The only way water can escape is …
Alappuzha: Fear of yet another flood has gripped remotest R. Block of 24 families in Kuttanad as authorities have failed to begin pumping out water. As part of the project, they built outer bunds and 21 pump sets for dewatering, and it continued to protect the land with periodical maintenance till 2013. Sheela Panicker, principal agriculture officer here, said that …
Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has been releasing highly contaminated water from the city’s lakes into downstream water bodies leading to the Musi river. Corporation officials claim that this is the only possible way to protect the city lakes, even at the risk of contaminating downstream water bodies. Terming the dewatering and diversion of contaminated water from one lake …
