नदियों में खनन की सीमा 3 मीटर तक बढ़ाकर किसे फायदा पहुंचाना चाहती है सरकार?

उत्तराखंड सरकार ने उपखनिज नीति-2016 में संशोधन करते हुए, नदियों में खनन की सीमा 1.5 मीटर से बढ़ाकर 3 मीटर या भूजल स्तर तक ...

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Restore flow, rivers are self-purifying

We need to go back to the drawing board of Jackie King, the South African who won the World Water Prize 2019 

How water flows across continents

Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has created graphic maps of watersheds across the world. His works can be found here.

Study sheds light on functioning of global river-based ecosystems

Around 153 researchers from 40 countries worked on the paper, which shows how climatic factors that govern decomposition rates are increasingly …

How we're using fish ear bones as 'time capsules' of past river health

Oxygen isotope values of fish ear bones gives information on the temperature of the water, while studying concentrations of trace elements …

Should we confer legal right upon nature?

French philosopher Michel Seres had long ago proposed the idea of agency for the natural environment as a whole so that its rights can be protected

Life along the Kosi: series 1

The saying goes Eqypt is the gift of the Nile. Throughout history rivers around the world have nurtured civilisations. In India, rivers are …

Colossal destruction

A valuable study of

Big Dams, Displaced People: Rivers of Sorrow, Rivers of Change Edited by Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Publisher: Sage Publications, Delhi Price: Rs 120

Hungary resents Slovak dam

Hungarians are raising environmental slogans against opening of the Gabcikovo dam's sluice gates by Czechoslovakia. The dam is built on the river …

Controversial barrage

Dams and poaching doom dolphins

There are just 5,000 river dolphins left in India and unless strict measures are undertaken to protect the remaining population, warn experts, …

Doomed dam

A five-year-long protest in France resulted in a major victory for conservationists, with the government being forced to abandon plans to build a dam.

WATER DISPUTE

Catastrophe avoided

Tapping the Rhone

Talking about water

Human costs and environmental impact of the proposed multipurpose project on the Mahakali river dominated proceedings at a recent Indo-Nepal …

SOUTH AFRICA

PERU

Consensus on linking rivers

Scheme will help tackle drought, says PM

Dam(n) the rivers

Interlink rivers and get delinked from true water management

Snippets

Concept selling

Dahisar in danger

River restoration project goes into overdrive