tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3630735105224190992011-07-28T07:28:37.231-07:00lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363073510522419099.post-8229451989932713202009-07-05T21:36:00.000-07:002009-07-05T21:38:23.903-07:00<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 9"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/s/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h1 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning:0pt; font-weight:bold;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} p {margin-right:0in; mso-margin-top-alt:auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style><span style="font-family:Arial;"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gulshan-Banani and Gulshan-Baridhara lakes of Dhaka (Bangladesh) have been encroached by real estate developers, retired government officials, a former UN official, a ward commissioner and even a sitting judge of the HC. Despite a HC stay order, the encroachers are filling up the Gulshan-Baridhara lake and also building boundary walls on it. The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), who is the caretaker of the water bodies in the city, is sitting silently on this matter. According to the news source, the lake has been identified in the Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan (DMDP) and the layout of the lake is in accordance with the Wetland Conservation Act.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">For details of this news and the picture see the site:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=94524">http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=94524</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363073510522419099-822945198993271320?l=lakewarriors.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363073510522419099.post-8829915972582256022009-06-23T00:53:00.000-07:002009-06-23T00:54:45.434-07:00Environmentalists against lotus farming<br /><br />http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/Kanya_Kumari.htm<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363073510522419099-882991597258225602?l=lakewarriors.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363073510522419099.post-54068555844037756132009-06-20T01:53:00.000-07:002009-06-20T01:58:33.574-07:00<p><a href="http://www.andhranews.net/India/2009/June/5-Indigenous-fish-species-9751.asp">Indigenous fish species vanishing in Kerala due to increasing pollution</a><br />Marine scientists have discovered that Vembanad Lake in Kerala is fast loosing its indigenous fish species due to pollution and increasing tourist influx. <small>ANI</small></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363073510522419099-5406855584403775613?l=lakewarriors.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363073510522419099.post-68451310481475889992009-06-20T01:21:00.000-07:002009-06-20T01:30:49.836-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WJQf-pHB3uE/SjyeKnx3EgI/AAAAAAAAAAM/w-TYFTZ2FhM/s1600-h/Bhopal+lake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WJQf-pHB3uE/SjyeKnx3EgI/AAAAAAAAAAM/w-TYFTZ2FhM/s320/Bhopal+lake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349324362723299842" border="0" /></a><br />See the Bhopal lake (Upper lake).<br /><br />You people out there pl. post photographs from other lakes<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363073510522419099-6845131048147588999?l=lakewarriors.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363073510522419099.post-27504844524198782312009-06-20T00:37:00.000-07:002009-06-20T00:45:45.066-07:00Gandhari talab, in Parikshitgarh in Meerut district of UP, is not only important for its historical or mythological background but also can contribute to groundwater recharging. It is said to have been used by Gandhari, mother of the Kauravas in Mahabarata age. Whether this lake really belongs to the Mahabharata age is a topic of debate. The most important object is that this surely acted as a source of water in the neighboring areas. NGOs and the stakeholders came together in 2005 to revive it. But the present condition is again sorrowful.<br /><br />Read more.....<br />http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/newsletter/gandhari_talab.htm<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/363073510522419099-2750484452419878231?l=lakewarriors.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>lakewarriorshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08468880649331523295noreply@blogger.com0