Rivers

Strong opposition to interlinking of Gujarat and Maharashtra rivers

NGT announces heavy fines, bans farming to clean up Yamuna

"The Kelo river has never been like this but in the last two decades, the economic growth in the region has spoiled the purity of the river", says eminent journalist  Shiv Rajpoot from Raigarh, who is also known as "Kelo man". He has twice traveled by foot, the 90 km stretch of the Kelo from its origin to its end.

The objectives of his two visits were to study and document:

Activists say that the villagers were informed late for the public hearing of the Ken-Betwa river link

Government to launch nationwide monitoring of toilet use, not construction

24th November to 9th December

Our planned 2000 km-long canoe ride has brought us half way, to the old great river-port of Patna.

The river is much bigger now, the clear waters of the Karnali-ghaghra, which comes all the way from Tibet and Nepal, mingling with the sand and silt laden Sharda to become turbid as well after a stretch. Right from the confluence onward, the abundance of dolphins seems to increase very noticeably.

A consortium of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology has been formed and charged with the preparation of a basin-wide management plan to restore the Ganga. What have they proposed for the river?

In an exclusive interview with the India Water Portal, Dr. Tare explained the IIT consortium's vision for the Ganga and the steps that they are taking to achieve it.

New Water Ministry, Clean Ganga Portal, Ganga Manthan: Goverment makes efforts towards rejuvenating the Ganga