Team effort: Workers using a boat to spread a rope across to help remove the weeds floating on Doddajala Lake on the outskirts of Bengaluru. It’s part of a wider effort to restore polluted lakes that are in danger of disappearing around the city. — AP
Sunil Kumar rowed his small boat, moving a few feet at a time, while he spread a fishing net across the weeds floating like a green carpet on Doddajala Lake.
The ends of the net were then carried ashore and tied to a tractor and an earthmover, which pulled the bundled plants towards labourers ready to drag them out with pitchforks.
