The quantity of lakes in the city has been falling, kindness it’s extending boundaries. Visits from transient flying creatures have halted due to evaporating of lakes.
Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority says that twenty years back, the city had 603 lakes and the number has descended definitely to 137, as the city began extending. In 2017, 65 lakes inside Ahmedabad had become trash dumps, had development, building rubble and illicit infringements, as indicated by a Cept University report arranged for AUDA.
The quantity of lakes in the city has been falling, kindness its growing limits. Mansee Bal-Bhargava, climate plan advisor and metropolitan water bodies master told the Times of India, “Any waterbody in a city without water is a land parcel for metropolitan turn of events. The land has no worth except for the utilization allocated to the land credits the worth. This viewpoint has neutralized a wide range of water bodies.”
Visits from transitory flying creatures were basic sights each rainstorm in Vastrapur over twenty years back. The Vastrapur Lake reached out to the limits of Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation ground. The lake is dry presently, even after enough downpour.
The lake’s sub-catchment zone was 11.52 lakh m2 before. Characteristic channels used to take care of the lake. At the point when AUDA started lake advancement in 2002, property development, streets and city civilities secured 60% of the zone. 9% of empty land remains now.
A senior AUDA official stated, “With the present AMC boundaries expanding to 503 km2 there is tremendous developmental pressures on lakes and small water canals near Rancherda, Sanand Road, areas around Shela and Ambli. We will lose these water bodies soon to TP roads.”
Water bodies in Ahmedabad are contracting at a pace of 1.57 km2 consistently because of increment in contamination, developed space and unloading of squanders, as per a report arranged by Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics.
