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The government has launched an ambitious Rs. 11 billion project to divert the waters of the Menik Ganga, Deduru Oya and the Kumbukkan Oya, which go to waste by ending up in the ocean, to enable 18,000 farmer families to cultivate 54,000 acres of paddy land during both Yala and Maha seasons.

Ahmedabad : The workshop on Sabarmati river basin in CEPT University kicked off on Monday with eminent architect and urban planner
Bernard Kohn addressing a group of students. Kohn pointed out that the project was an opportunity for city to express its civic choices and that project in whichever way should integrate social values of the city'.

CUDDALORE: With Tamil Nadu losing its riparian rights in the Cauvery, the Palar and in the Mullaperiyar waters a desperate need has arisen to revive agriculture in the State, said G.K.Mani, president of the Pattali Makkal Katchi. Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, Mr.

A separate body is needed to save the rivers and canals in and around the capital from being polluted, said the speakers at a discussion yesterday.

They also stressed the need for a halt to dumping industrial and urban waste into the rivers and canals to save them from pollution.

The river is a unique ecological entity, but has somehow not made a presence in modern-day discourse.

The recent Kosi floods have proved once again that inadequate control measures have been responsible for the recurring disasters. Typically flood control and riverine studies focus on hydrological information, whereas a much more integrated approach that pays attention to specific morphological factors is required.

The strategy of building embankments to constrain river flow and to prevent floods in north Bihar has proven to be questionable and flawed. Reliance on a dam-and-reservoir system for that purpose only offers limited protection and even greater risks of flooding in case of damage.

The recent Kosi floods have proved once again that inadequate control measures have been responsible for the recurring disasters. Typically flood control and riverine studies focus on hydrological information, whereas a much more integrated approach that pays attention to specific morphological factors is required.

The river is almost totally absent in modern day discourse Barrage, dam, embankment, flood, irrigation have a common thread

At geological time scales, the role of continental erosion in the organic carbon (OC) cycle is determined by the balance between recent OC burial and petrogenic OC oxidation. Evaluating its net effect on the concentration of carbon dioxide and dioxygen in the atmosphere requires the fate of petrogenic OC to be assessed.

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