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Sabarmati earns sobriquet of most-polluted waterbody

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, July 23: For those of us who have grown up hearing the soulful strains of “Sabarmati ke sant tu ne kar diya kamaal”, the Sabarmati river still holds a special place. But what many don’t know is that the river on whose banks Gandhi set up his Ashram has turned into one [...]

No More wading through floodwaters for homeowners

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Pulkit Vasudha Ahmedabad, June 27: RAINWATER harvesting wells recently constructed by the Space Applications Centre will finally provide relief to low-lying residential societies around the SAC which were flooded in the monsoon for years by water flowing out its 80-acre campus. SAC has built two rainwater collection ponds, each of a capacity of five lakh [...]