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Water lilies, while beautiful, are growing like weeds in Dal Lake, covering wide swathes of it.

A small boat carries a part of the water lilies and garbage collected by the weed harvester machines.

An abandoned boat being swallowed by Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir. Eutrophication in the lake has led to an increase in algal and weed growth.

Weed harvesters cleaning Dal Lake.

House and trees reflected in a clean part of Dal Lake.

Loktak Lake, Manipur.

Phumdis (floating islands) on Loktak Lake, Manipur.

A restaurant on a phumdi (floating island) in Loktak Lake, Manipur.

Loktak Lake in Manipur is also suffering anthropogenic eutrophication.

Men lie by the Ganga in early March, Varanasi, India.

A stream (Yorba in Purgi) emerging from Suru river.

Houseboats and the Shankaracharya temple hill reflected in the Dal Lake, Srinagar, Kashmir.
Growth, garbage, reflections.
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