China's leading conservation centre is facing down an onslaught of rubber plantations.

If the United States Supreme Court grants certiorari in a case between Mississippi and Tenessee, the court will have its first opportunity to determine if and how transboundary aquifers should be regulated. The applications of this case are far from surface level.

The Sambhar Salt Lake hydrological system, including river waters, groundwaters, evaporating pans and sub-surface brines, has been analyzed for the salt content (TDS) and naturally occurring radionuclides (210Po, 210Pb and 226,228Ra).

In this article the author advocates demand management for optimal adaptation to changes in water resources in the Indus Basin resulting from climate change.

Application of hydraulic structures may control the destruction rate of the flood but sometimes they have undesirable effects on some aspects of flood behaviours leading to detrimental outcomes. In the present study, an attempt has been made to investigate the effects of bridges, culverts, groins and drops on inundation extension in a about 7 km long reach of Kan River, Iran.

Pandit Kalhan's 12th century text, the 'Rajatarangini' (composed around 1148-1150 AD), which chronicles the history of Kashmir, describes a well conceived and maintained irrigation system. One of the most notable names recorded in the 'Rajatarangini' is Suyya. He is credited with "draining the water of the Vitasta River and controlling it by constructing a stone dam, and clearing its bed."

Statistical factor analysis (FA) technique has been applied to chemical data of 125 bore well water samples from Kumadvathi river sub-basin to assess the un-usefulness of such techniques for interpretation of the hydro-chemical data. FA technique identified three factors, which account for 60% of the major ion variations observed in the sub-basin, namely, TDS, carbonate and bicarbonate.

In water resources planning and management many problems are faced in estimation of flood flows in ungauged catchments. Researchers have been adopting different techniques in estimating flows from ungauged catchments for design and risk analysis of hydraulic structures. The important aspect in such situations is an assessment of Peak Maximum Rainfall (PMR).

Emphasis has been laid since long on the need for integrated catchment management and impactof landuse on catchment hydrology; but the two disciplines have not been amalgmated for creating catchment sensitive 'City Landuse plans'.

Many rivers in India are shared resources, flowing through or between more than one province and more than one country. The combined effect of climatic stochasticity, rapid population growth and inefficient water infrastructure is increasing stress on river basin ecosystems.