The Hindu 26.03.2013
HMDA to document 325 city lakes
Apathy of administrators and enforcers, greed of encroachers coupled with ignorance towards pollution has been the bane of water bodies that once abounded the city and its surroundings.
There remains very little authentic information and data as to how many lakes still exist and what is their present condition.
Neither size or boundary nor the quality of water in most of these lakes is known.
It is in this backdrop, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) which took up protection, restoration and conservation of lakes listed out 325 water bodies and sought to classify them with available details.
The project has been envisaged to cover these lakes spread out in different parts of the HMDA’s 1,214 square km jurisdiction.
According to the HMDA, the 325 lakes have been divided as those up to 10 hectares (150 lakes), from 10 hectares to 25 hectares (110), between 25 hectares to 50 hectares (50) and 15 lakes spread over 50 hectares.
There remains very little authentic information and data as to how many lakes still exist and what is their present condition.
