Kashmir’s Iconic Dal Lake is Dying

Untreated sewage, pollution, encroachments, strangling one of the earth’s jewels

By: Majid Maqbool

Amid much fanfare last month, visiting G20 delegates arrived in Kashmir’s capital city Srinagar to attend a tourism working group meeting in a convention center overlooking the iconic Dal Lake, which has drawn tourists from across the world for decades for its stunning beauty. It is called variously the “Lake of Flowers," the "Jewel in …