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CAG is auditing Water Pollution - any lake to suggest?
Written By silkboard - 14 February, 2010
Bangalore lakes Water Pollution Citizen Reports CAG Others Everything else
By the way guys, saw ads in papers saying that CAG is conducting a performance audit on the subject of Water Pollution and that if we want to draw attention of CAG to any particular instance of water pollution, we can reach them at their email/fax. See details in the ad image below.
Shall we collectively nominate a Bangalore lake that we think has seen sever pollution issues? Bellandur Lake? Varthur Lake (we were told by IISc that this lake too has seen BOD levels drop). any other?
Lets pick one and send individual emails to CAG. 20-25 emails about one single lake might do it.
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List all candidate lakes here, and ...
silkboard - 14 February, 2010 - 07:09
I think I can create a simple form to automate this. The form will have 6-7 candidate lakes mentioned. If you know of pollution issues about a lake in the list, select it, add your comments, and say "nominate this lake". And then, a mail will automatically be sent to CAG.
Fairly easy to do this (from technology point of view). All I need is a list of deserving polluted (and neglected, possibly due to poor execution of projects to keep them clean) lakes from all water enthusiast members.
Let me add my two
- Bellandur Lake
- Varthur Lake
Bring on more. Please don't mention a lake if you just know some names. Issue is water pollution, not lack of recreation or just-encorachment around lakes.
ss87 - 14 February, 2010 - 09:33
Bangalore being a city of lakes and all lakes being polluted by sewage water and other stuff entering the same . Puttenhalli lake(J.P.Nagar) is one lake I would like to nominate
RKCHARI - 15 February, 2010 - 13:22
Dear Pranav,
Since there are several parameters of pollution in a Lake, I guess what qualifies from an ordinary citizen's point of view is the lake with the maximum odour and algae bloom formation.
I guess Bellandur lake takes the cake in both these respects. I vote for Bellandur.
A close second would be the Madivala Lake.
Regards & best wishes,
Chari
sanjayv - 16 February, 2010 - 05:53
Bellandur or Varthur lakes are good candidates. They are downstream of several lake systems and receive huge quantities of untreated sewage. The IISc group study also serves as a boat load of material for the CAG audit to reference. The dumping of urban construction waste is also seen near Bellandur. So that would be a good location.
Plus, from the photos PSA sir and I have and collected literature, we can put together a compelling case listing all the issues for the CAG to consider.
s_yajaman - 15 February, 2010 - 13:36
It looks more like a hyacinth farm and it stinks too.
Srivathsa
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