The Bangladesh-run Water Resource Planning Organisation (WARPO) recently put forward an updated guideline for environmental impact assessment (EIA) for flood control and drainage structures. This

To contrast with Goudpali, residents some villages in Muzaffarnagar and Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh, lying on the banks of river Ganga, have been lucky. The government may not have come forward to

Water has suddenly become a favoured subject for seminars and conferences all over the world.

Villagers of Bhuragaon in Assam no longer depend on the government for protecting their lands from the currents of the Brahmaputra. They have, instead, adopted a new method to save their crop and hearth by digging in spurs

Rajya Sabha members have recently demanded that the Union government should speed up its efforts to sign a treaty with Nepal, that will allow the government to channelise the waters flowing into

a plan of the Italian government to save Venice from sinking will prove to be futile. This was stated by Albert J Ammerman, an American environ

Computers cannot prevent floods a lesson that the Internet savvy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is learning the hard way

the floods have once again ravaged Bihar. Claims made by the government that all precautionary measures were taken, embankment and anti-erosion work completed in time and that the floods would not be allowed to occur

Another monsoon. The season of suffering in India s flood plains. And of blaming upstream people for floods. Is there an end to this

This multi purpose project has the potential of solving the region s problems but at enormous environmental cost

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