Lakes and Wetlands

The fields are silvery white with raw salt crusts in the vicinity of Nawa, a small town on the northwestern banks of Sambhar lake, India’s largest inland lake. Nawa lies about 90 kilometres east of Jaipur. Also an extensive saline wetland and a Ramsar site, the blinding white salt flats stretch as far as one can see.

Railways biodigesters are not better than septic tanks: IIT study

Norms relaxed to allow thermal power plants to use more water

Ousteri lake is the largest water body in the Puducherry region.

"The world has enough for everyone's needs, but not enough for everyone's greed”--Mahatma Gandhi 

Nitin Gadkari takes charge of water resources and Ganga rejuvenation

Committee rejects UP's plan for a religious hi-tech smart city 

Increasingly in both academic and social sectors, sustainable development goals (SDGs) are being quoted often and set as targets.

Fishing trawlers symbolise industrial-scale fishing which is lucrative in the present day market. These machines that catch fish in huge numbers are said to be a boon to the sector’s economy but a closer look at the figures show that these modes of mass fishing may not be as efficient as they may seem to appear.

Floods are generally considered destructive but in some cases, overflowing rivers have the potential to create wetlands. These wetlands can serve as agreeable landscapes that turn resourceful due to the multiple functions it can host. The Kanwar Lake in Bihar is a striking example of this shared, altering landscapes.