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Environmental effects of river sand mining: a case from the river catchments of Vembanad lake, Southwest coast of India [1]

Rivers in the southwest coast of India are under immense pressure due to various kinds of human activities among which indiscriminate extraction of construction grade sand is the most disastrous one. The situation is rather alarming in the rivers draining the Vembanad lake catchments as the area hosts one of the fast developing urban-cum-industrial centre, the Kochi city, otherwise called the Queen of Arabian Sea. The Vembanad lake catchments are drained by seven rivers whose length varies between 78 and 244 km and catchment area between 847 and 5,398 km2.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2008
D. Padmalal [2], K. Maya [3], S. Sreebha & et al [4]
Environmental Geology [5]
54
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879-889
Tags:
Mining [6], Rivers [7], Vembanad [8], Lakes [9], Kerala [10], Construction Industry [11], Building Materials [12], Riverine Ecology [13], Periyar [14], Chalakudy [15], Muvattapuzha [16], Meenachil [17], Manimala [18], Pamba [19], India [20]

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