Snatching someone's baby

Villagers in Rajasthan have revived a dried up river in the region with help of a NGO. Now, their fight is with the state government, which has …

Two sides of the same coin: Shrinking water bodies and urban floods

Water bodies have become even more critical in current times when cities are facing the challenge of rapid, unplanned urbanisation

No to referendum

Gujarat’s rain-fed Fofal river dries up

This has sent villagers in Saurashtra region into a tizzy owing to the acute agrarian crisis

CHINA

TWISTING FACTS

No dukes No deluge

Floods are bad. But embarkments only make matters worse

Raging river

Gnaws at its banks in Assam

Alarming dip

Dams affect Mekong's flow

Flowed east, flowing west

Changing course of Himalayan rivers passing through Punjab

Damming a river

Despite vehement domestic and international opposition, China has decided to go ahead with the massive new dam project on the Yangtze

Troubled waters

A draft national policy guideline for the allocation of river waters has run into strong opposition from the states

When the Sharda flows wild

Villages on its path prepare for the recurrent misery of inundation as an apathetic government looks on

Bleeding blue: Fast fashion is now poisoning African rivers

Untreated or partially treated effluent from textile factories, usually blue / indigo in colour, is killing African rivers

Sukapaika: Death of a river

How embankments have killed Odisha’s Sukapaika river that was the lifeline of over 0.5 million people  

Damn these dams

While dam-busting, engineers should take care to save the entire river system from degradation

Use these maps to see how dams are destroying rivers across the world

The interative created by a non-profit illustrates shows decades of dam-building has put river basins like the Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon and …

Human actions are changing rivers by altering decomposition rates, increasing greenhouse gas emissions: Study

Though rivers occupy 0.58 per cent of the non-glaciated global land area, they receive 0.72 billion tons of terrestrial carbon per year

The demise of rivers

The ecology of rivers is irreversibly damaged through riverfront projects in India

Simply Put: A river runs through it

The prosperous are the ‘real’ polluters

Economic growth takes a toll on the environment

Credibility declines

Clean-up plan seems futile

A massive project holds out no guarantee that it can make river water potable

Demystifying the deluge

There is growing evidence that deforestation in the hills does not always swell rivers

IN MURKY WATERS