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Water Resources

 Drying up

Rivers in Pakistan are gradually becoming water-deficient. A downward trend has been noticed recently in the combined inflow from rivers, with the total supply dropping down to 88,000 cusecs

Publication Date: 
30/10/2002
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Water Resources, Rivers, Pakistan
Mining

 Gold rush

World s biggest gold valley was flooded by the metal three billion years ago

Publication Date: 
14/10/2002
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Mining, Minerals, Gold, Rivers, Sedimentation, Research, Africa
Water Resources

 Ebbing away

Rivers that flow from Mount Kenya are drying up, triggering an acute shortage of water in regions straddling the waterbodies. The crisis has impacted the semi-arid Laikipia district the most. To add

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
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Water Resources, Rivers, Legislation, Kenya
India

 Rivers of dispute

Quiet flow the rivers as politics make their waters murky

Publication Date: 
29/09/2002
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Rivers, Water Distribution, Interstate Disputes, Supreme Court, India
Environment

Palaeoliquefaction evidence of prehistoric large/great earthquakes in North Bihar, India

The Himalayan arc, 40% of which ruptured in the last two centuries, has witnessed half a dozen large to great earthquakes including the 1833 and 1934 Bihar

Publication Date: 
25/08/2002
B. S. Sukhija, M. N. Rao, D. V. Reddy & et al
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Rivers, Bagmati, Burhi Gandak, Kamla, Kosi, Sedimentation, Earthquakes, Geology, Nepal, India, Bihar
India

 WATER SHARING

In a landmark decision, the SC directed the Punjab government to expeditiously construct the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal to give effect to the Eradi Commission Award on sharing of river water

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
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Rivers, Water Distribution, Dams, Legislation, Supreme Court, Governance, India, Haryana, Punjab
Water Pollution

 Missouri dying

degradation of the natural Missouri river ecosystem is clear and continuing, says a new report from the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Chairperson of the committee

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
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Water Pollution, Ecosystems, Rivers, Missouri, United States Of America (US)
Air Pollution

 Orphans of the river

Riverine fisherfolk, arguably the oldest among traders, are being sold down the river. An unholy synergy of poisoned rivers, government apathy and commercial interests has scripted the epitaph of the original stewards of the river. Ironically, their

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
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Ecology, River Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Rivers, Aquaculture, Fish Poisoning, Chipko Movement, Endangered Species, Fisherfolk, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Governance, Bihar, Kerala, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Fish Marketing
Industry

 Coochie cooing for oilspills

After a 1995 oil tanker spill at the mouth of Tasmania's Tamar river poisoned a colony of little penguins, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust swore the birds would never again be defenceless. It has

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Oil Pollution, Marine Ecosystems, Rivers, Health Effects
India

 Growing fences

Burgeoning population and agricultural encroachment in the last half century have erected artificial walls within the Gond tribes. These ethnic groups, dominating the Bastar district, have little social or economic interchange today

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Zarine Cooper
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Agriculture, Rice, Mushroom, Rivers, Indravati, Fisheries, Fish Marketing, Forest Products, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Medicinal Plants, Flora, India, Chhattisgarh, Bastar, Naxalites

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