Rivers

India, the second largest population in the world, is facing a water crisis with over 600 million people facing acute water shortage, as per a report by Niti Aayog, the government think-tank. India’s water crisis is expected to worsen, threatening the country’s food security as over 80 percent of our water is used in agriculture.

The Siang River is a transboundary river which flows in Tibetan plateau, China in the name of Yarlung Psangpo and after entering India in Arunachal Pradesh, it is known as Siang which meets river Brahmaputra in Assam, 230 km downstream. 

Central Monitoring Committee formed to ensure pollution-free river stretches

India could witness near-normal monsoon this season: IMD

CWC data shows water storage in major river basins depleting

Odisha is home to 11 major rivers of which many are interstate rivers such as the Mahanadi. As climate change makes extreme rainfall events more frequent in the state, there is an urgent need to better manage the rivers and their basins.

Study reveals that nearly 42 percent of India’s land area is facing drought

DDA allocates 42.5 acre plot on Yamuna floodplains for waste dumping

Lower Subansiri hydel project: SC seeks review of NGT's order granting nod to the project

The Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) cover 3500 kms across eight countries namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.