Visakhapatnam Industrial Water Supply Company to repair Yeleru Left Main Canal from February 15 to March 27

Visakhapatnam Industrial Water Supply Company to repair Yeleru Left Main Canal from February 15 to March 27

VISWCO officials inspecting the Yeleru Left Main Canal at Golugondapeta in Anakapalli district, as part of the preparations for Closure of the canal for repair works from February 15 to Match 27. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Visakhapatnam Industrial Water Supply Company (VIWSCO) will undertake the repair work of Yeleru Left Main Canal (YLMC) … Read more

Sighting of a crocodile in the KC canal creates a flutter in Nandyal

Sighting of a crocodile in the KC canal creates a flutter in Nandyal

A crocodile was reportedly spotted in the KC Canal, located near the Bhanuka Charla Earth Regulator in Pamulapadu mandal of the district on Friday (December 13), causing considerable alarm among the residents. The farmers informed the forest officials that this was not the first incident in the area, a few days earlier, another crocodile was … Read more

Conolly canal harmful to Kottooli wetland ecosystem, finds study

Conolly canal harmful to Kottooli wetland ecosystem, finds study

A research study by a husband-wife duo, both professors, one at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) and the other at the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), has revealed that rapid urbanisation in Kozhikode city has led to the extensive destruction of the Kottooli wetlands, a proposed Ramsar site, a wetland of international … Read more

Emotive issue of Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal takes political centre stage again in Punjab, Haryana

Emotive issue of Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal takes political centre stage again in Punjab, Haryana

A view of the SYL (Sutlej-Yamuna Link) canal in Punjab. The Centrally-funded canal links Sutlej with the Yamuna. It is to carry Haryana’s share (3.5 million acre feet) of Sutlej waters. The Centre has spent about Rs. 450 crores on the canal. The construction was abandoned in 1990 at the height of militancy in Punjab. … Read more