Varthur Lake

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  Bengaluru Restaurant Serves Cocktail Inspired By Varthur Lake Pollution, Internet Reacts

  Recently, an X post about a pollution-themed drink caught the attention of many social media users.

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  Largest Septic Tank In Bengaluru, Says Report On City's Bellandur Lake

  Bengaluru's Bellandur lake has become the largest septic tank in the city due to "sheer callousness and indifference", according to a damning report from a committee mandated by the National Green Tribunal or Green Court, adding that there was "not even one millilitre" of clean water in the lake.

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  Residents 'Trapped' As Bengaluru Lakes Froth Like Never Before: 10 Points

  After the city's heaviest August rain in a century, two giant lakes in Bengaluru are spewing so much toxic foam that residents who live near them have reportedly complained that they are having to stay indoors. On Wednesday, the froth, a stinking cocktail of chemicals and untreated sewage dumped in the lakes, rose to over 10 feet in the Varthur Lak...

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  Bengaluru's Varthur Lake Now Spews 10-Feet-High Froth

  Overnight rains, Bengaluru's heaviest in August in a century, has the city's Varthur Lake spewing foam and froth like never before. On Wednesday, the foam caused by toxic chemicals and untreated sewage in the lake rose to over 10 feet along the tall fence erected to keep the stinking cocktail of pollutants from spilling on to road in Varthur Kodi l...

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  Foam Spilling Out On Bengaluru Roads, NGT Raps Karnataka Government

  The National Green Tribunal today took Karnataka government and its civic authorities to task over foam spilling over into the streets in Bengaluru near the Varthur lake, causing massive traffic jams in the city.

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  Bengaluru's Varthur Lake Moves From Froth To Fire, Smoke Fills The Air

  After the froth, the flames - one of Bengaluru's two biggest lakes is following its pattern with a large fire reported this morning, hours after foam shot up from the water and sprayed drivers in the crowded eastern part of India's Silicon Valley.

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  'Happens Every Year,' Says Chief Minister Siddaramaiah As Bengaluru Lake Shoots Toxic Foam

  No problem, it happens every year, Karnataka's Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said, as Bengaluru's Varthur Lake froths and shoots toxic foam at motorists passing by. Pre-monsoon rain has meant more froth in the past week and people driving past the lake on the arterial Whitefield Road have had a tough time evading the flying clouds of chemical.

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  Politicians And Local Groups Visit Bengaluru Lakes To Take Stock Of Clean-Up Process

  Politicians and citizens' groups today visited three Bengaluru lakes - Bellandur, Varthur and Rampura - to take stock of the clean-up process.

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  Bengaluru Lake Being Encroached? 'Alert' Bengaluru Residents Think So

  With hundreds of trucks dumping debris on a parcel of land adjoining the nearly 440-acre Varthur Lake in East Bengaluru, some residents of Thubbarhalli and members of Whitefield Rising recorded videos and handed them over to officials. The residents say they believe their vigil has prevented another lake in the city from being encroached.

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  Why Do Bengaluru's Foamy Lakes Need Foreign Help, Ask City Experts

  Foam and froth and even flames, all caused by toxic chemicals and untreated sewage have been flowing into the two largest lakes in Bengaluru - Bellandur and Varthur - for decades. Foreign companies are now proposing to clean up the lakes. Last Saturday, experts from a UK firm and an Israeli firm visited Bellandur Lake.

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  Bengaluru, Shamed By Frothing Lake, Summons International Help

  Bengaluru's lakes have turned into showstoppers for reasons the city should be ashamed of. The two largest one - Bellandur and Varthur - have, in the last 20 years, frothed, foamed and burst into flames, the result of relentlessly being forced to accommodate toxic chemicals and untreated sewage.

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  PM Modi, Please Help: 1,000 Bengaluru Kids Send SOS On Lakes

  Last year in April, Bengaluru's residents got a shock. Three of India's Silicon city's lakes - Varthur, Bellandur and Yemalur - had gone white with foam. Mountains of froth, blown by the wind, were landing on the road, enveloping cars and pedestrians.

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  Black Friday to Mark Lack of Civic Amenities in Parts of Bengaluru

  Bengaluru may have been ranked as the country's cleanest state capital based on Swachh Bharat parameters of open defecation and solid waste management, but some of the residents would disagree about the city's overall civic amenities. In the IT hub of Whitefield area, members of the citizen's group, Whitefield Rising, are observing Black Friday as ...

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  First Froth, Now Flames in a Lake in Bengaluru

  In Bengaluru, the sight of thick froth on a lake is strange enough. For the past few nights, people have noticed an even more unusual phenomenon - a lake in flames.

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  Locals Sound Alarm For Bengaluru's Sankey Tank

  Bengaluru's lakes are slowly being choked, fear the city's residents. Toxic foam has taken over Whitefield's Varthur lake. And now, luxury condos may come up soon next to Malleswaram's Sankey tank, which, locals say, will destroy the lake's avian habitat and contaminate the water with sewage.