Bellandur Lake

Citizens of Bengaluru (Bangalore) are used to air-pollution, but poisonous foam is something else. High winds have been whisking up mountains of foam on the surface of the notoriously polluted Bellandur lake, and the toxic bubbles are blowing across the city, causing chaos in affected areas. Despite being India’s IT hub, Bengaluru still relies on colonial-era … read more

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Under the grey, overcast skies, Bellandur lake continued to froth heavily on Saturday, spewing white clouds in the air.And walking through the frothy road next to the lake, were at least a dozen people, all "local tourists" who wanted to experience the foam first-hand. Armed with cameras, they used the bandh holiday to travel from different parts of the city to see Bengaluru’s most infamous lake.

A toxic snowy froth caused in a lake by industrial pollution has spilled over into neighbourhoods in India's Bangalore city.

The Bellandur Lake takes in about 500 million liters of untreated sewage water each day, causing it to catch fire

I would not mind starting with a clichéd phrase for Bangalore - the city of lakes and tanks. But these days this lake city is making news because its lakes are drying up. Some because of waste dumping, some because of encroachments. One of these unfortunate lakes in Bangalore is Bellandur Lake, one of the oldest with 130 years of history and the main water provider for the city.

Bellandur lake—Bengaluru’s largest lake, hits headlines often for all wrong reasons. The once bountiful lake has gradually transformed into a sewage tank. Formation of foam is a cause for concern among the citizens living around. The authorities claim to be doing their best to solve the problem. Fed up with the lethargic attitude of the authorities in solving issue, residents and activists have recently decided to launch a massive campaign to fix the problem once and for all. They say that if this is not sorted out now, it is going to be impossible to continue living in the neighbourhood.

Bellandur Lake is a lake in the suburb of Bellandur in the southeast of the city of Bangalore and is the largest lake in the city. It is a part of Bellandur drainage system that drains the southern and the southeastern parts of the city. The lake is a receptor from three chains of lakes upstream, and has a catchment area of about 148 square kilometres (37,000 acres). Water from this lake flows further east to the Varthur Lake, from where it flows down the plateau and eventually into the Pinakani river basin.[1] It is currently highly polluted with sewage, and in May 2015 the foam covering the water surface caught fire and burned for hours.