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Megapolis Chennai: Let’s live with water
Integrating water management into urban planning — through methods like blue-green roofs, restoring and creating waterbodies, and harvesting rainwater...
'Don't want eco park, just save Peerkankaranai Lake', urge locals
19 Nov 2024 5:00 AM ISTThe plan to convert Peerkankaranai Lake into an eco park has remained on paper for the last 6 years. Despite encroachments rising, and water hyacinth...
Special Projects Act puts TN waterbodies in danger
4 Nov 2024 5:30 AM ISTThe Act, which was brought into force from October 18, allows project proponents to hand over land in another place as an alternative if the project...
Velachery lake encroached 75%, Retteri & Ambattur 40%; shrinking lakes...
22 Oct 2024 7:00 AM ISTAttributing the 2015 floods and 2019 water scarcity to the diminishing extent of wetlands, the report said that the amount of rainfall in 2015 was...
NGOs, individuals to get Rs 1 lakh prize for conserving waterbodies in...
17 Sept 2024 10:29 PM ISTThe government order to his effect was issued following the announcement made by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change in this regard on the...
Houses along waterbodies in Kumbakonam razed
12 Sept 2024 9:37 PM ISTAfter the Madras High Court directed the Thanjavur district administration to remove the encroachments along the waterbodies after a PIL filed by...
Tamil Nadu mulls AI 'eye' to monitor water quality, encroachment of...
5 July 2024 7:00 AM ISTTN-SWIP to check encroachments of waterbodies, quality of water
Urban jungle built atop waterbodies
19 Dec 2023 7:00 AM ISTLack of desilting of lakes and ponds in the city, encroachments and uncontrolled urbanisation around them, and the insufficient number of check dams...