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Muvattapuzha

• Environmental effects of river sand mining: a case from the river catchments of Vembanad lake, Southwest coast of India

  Rivers in the southwest coast of India are under immense pressure due to various kinds of human activities among which indiscriminate extraction of construction grade sand is the most disastrous one. The

  • 01/04/2008

  • Environmental Geology
  • • Mining
    • Rivers
    • Vembanad
    • Lakes
    • Kerala
    • Construction Industry
    • Building Materials
    • Riverine Ecology
    • Periyar
    • Chalakudy
    • Muvattapuzha
    • Meenachil
    • Manimala
    • Pamba
    • India

• Controversy over Elephants burial

  KOCHI: The burial of an elephant, which reportedly died of anthrax in Perumbavoor on Thursday, has kicked up a controversy. There are allegations that the pachyderm was buried, near the Muvattupuzha river, unscientifically and could pose a threat of polluting the river, a source of potable water in the district.

  • 05/09/2009

  • New Indian Express (Kochi)
  • • Water Pollution
    • River Pollution
    • Animal Diseases
    • Muvattapuzha
    • Wildlife
    • Elephant
    • Kerala