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April 18, 2024
Collaborative approaches to water governance in Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra basin
As the demand for water from the Hindu Kush Himalaya region is expected to rise due to population growth, the impacts of temperature increases, and development requirements, researchers emphasise the urgent need to enhance scientific collaboration and rejuvenate existing treaties and governance structures.
Rivers of destiny (Image: Vikramjit Kakati/Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
February 20, 2024
Sewage will overtake agriculture as the biggest polluter of river sub basins in India
This study predicts that sewage will become the dominant source of nitrogen pollution in rivers due to urbanisation and insufficient wastewater treatment technologies and infrastructure in worse case scenario projections in countries such as India.
The polluted river Yamuna at Agra (Image Source: India Water Portal)
October 16, 2023
शोध : गंगा नदी की ही भाँति सरयू नदी में भी पाई गई जीवाणु भोजी बैक्टीरियोफेज की उपस्थिति
अब वह दिन दूर नहीं कि गंगाजल की तरह सरयू जल को भी बोतल में सुरक्षित किया जा सकेगा और वह खराब नहीं होगा।सरयू नदी में पाए जाने वाले जीवाणु एवं विषाणुओं पर अध्ययन हेतु विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्रालय के विज्ञान एवं अभियांत्रिकी विभाग की आर्थिक सहायता प्राप्त की है। इनके निर्देशन में शोध छात्रों द्वारा अस्पताल में संक्रमण करने वाले जीवाणुओं की पहचान और उनकी एंटीबायोटिक प्रतिरोधी बनने पर अध्ययन किया जा रहा है।
गंगा नदी,गंगोत्री
October 8, 2023
India's rivers: From conservation movements to legal personhood
While the current push for legal personhood for rivers is facing obstacles and is stalled, it holds potential as a viable long-term strategy for the preservation of India's rivers
River quality deteriorates as demand for hydropower to support economic growth continues to expand. (Image: Yogendra Singh Negi, Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
July 18, 2023
जलांगी नदी को पश्चिम बंगाल चुनाव में 58 वोट मिले
पश्चिमबंगाल पंचायत चुनाव-2023 में पर्यावरण एक बड़ा अहम मुद्दा बना। नदी और पर्यावरण राजनीतिक दलों के एजेंडे से कहीं अधिक आम लोगों के आकर्षण का केन्द्र बने।
पश्चिमबंगाल पंचायत चुनाव
June 17, 2023
सहस्त्रधारा-बाल्दी नदी के सभी कब्जे हटाए जाएं - एनजीटी
सहस्त्रधारा-बाल्दी नदी के किनारे के धनौला गांव में नदी पर अवैध निर्माण गतिविधियों के मुद्दे को सबसे पहले याचिकाकर्ता मीनाक्षी अरोड़ा ने उठाया था, जिनका इस साल 6 मार्च 2023 को निधन हो गया। उनके पति केसर सिंह अब सहस्त्रधारा-बाल्दी नदी मामले की पैरवी कर रहे हैं।
सहस्त्रधारा-बाल्दी नदी पर अतिक्रमण,फोटो सभागार:- केसर सिंह
India’s first round-the-clock solar village angers pastoralists
News this fortnight
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 20 Mar, 2023 09:02 AM

 India's first round the clock solar power plant in Modhera village Gujarat, threatens livelihoods of pastoralists 
Maldharis grazing buffaloes (Image Source: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons)
Centre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
Policy matters this fortnight
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 01 Mar, 2023 12:17 PM

Centre in final stages of notifying emissions trading scheme
Government plans to give energy efficiency targets to sectors (Image: RawPixel)
Rivers and riverine communities of India: Water Talk Series 2022-23 by students of Water Policy and Governance, TISS
Focus on increasing the adaptability and resilience of these riverine communities.
Posted on 19 Feb, 2023 06:11 PM

The Water Talk Series started in 2017 at the Tata Institute of

Green growth finds prominence in the Union Budget 2023-24
News this month
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 03 Feb, 2023 09:45 AM

Green growth finds prominence in the Union Budget 2023-24
Mangrove forest at Pichavaram, Tamil Nadu (Image Source: Shankaran Murugan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
India issues notice to Pakistan to renegotiate Indus Waters Treaty to optimise water use
Policy matters this month
Amita Bhaduri
Posted on 02 Feb, 2023 12:36 PM

India issues notice to Pakistan seeking modification to Indus Waters Treaty
Indus River between Domkhar and Skurbuchen (Image: Keith Goyden, India Water Portal Flickr)
Microplastics in tributaries of the Upper Ganga River
First report on microplastics in tributaries of Upper Ganga River along Dehradun
Rupali Nayal
Surindra Suthar
Posted on 01 Jan, 2023 11:23 AM

Microplastic contamination has appeared as pollution of global concern in the aquatic as well as the terrestrial environment.
Microplastics (Image: Oregon State University, Wikimedia Commons)
River Sharavathi - under siege from microplastics
A study finds that microplastic pollution in the river Sharavathi originating in the Western Ghats is growing. Urgent efforts to protect this biodiversity hotspot are needed.
Kaniyambadi Amrutha
Sachin Shajikumar
Anish Kumar Warrier
Joju George Sebastian
Yamuna Adichinalniravel Sali
Thara Chandran
Sanitha Sivadas
Ravidas Naik
Vadakkeveedu Narayan Amrish
Vishnu Unnikrishnan
Arun Kumar
Posted on 16 Dec, 2022 01:32 PM

Rivers worldover are choking on plastic and transferring more than two million tonnes per year of microplastics (MPs) into the marine environment informs this paper titled 'Assessment of pollution and risks associated with microplastics in the riverine sediments of the Western Ghats: a heritage site in southern I
The pristine river Sharavathi (Image Source: Ashwin Kumar via Wikimedia Commons)
Water storage in river basins dips in 2021, drier than normal conditions to blame: WMO
News this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 15 Dec, 2022 06:07 PM

Significant drop in the volume of Ganga river water and groundwater in the river basin, reveals WMO report
Ganga river in Uttarakhand (Source: IWP Flickr album)
Classifying rivers for setting up stone crushers is illegal: NGT to Uttarakhand government
Policy matters this fortnight
Swati Bansal
Posted on 14 Dec, 2022 02:33 PM

Uttarakhand’s classification of rivers to set up stone crushers violates NGT Act
A river in Uttarakhand (Image source: IWP Flickr photos)
Assessing the health of river Ganga
How are dams affecting the river Ganga? What are phytoplankton and how can they help assess health of rivers? What is the connection between dams, barrages, river flows and phytoplankton growth? Read this recent study to know more.
Aarti Kelkar Khambete
Posted on 08 Dec, 2022 07:07 PM

Dams can bind and gag rivers 

Structures such as locks, dams, barrages, and weirs are known to drastically reduce the longitudinal connectivity of rivers, impact downstream flow, and alter riverine ecosystems.
The polluted Ganges (Image Source: Lane Rasberry via Wikimedia Commons)
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