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A river has the right to life
DESPITE our professed love for rivers and water bodies, our actions have inflicted deeper injuries on their wholesome existence. The ...
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Delhi’s water footprint
MOST of the water consumed in Delhi is not of its own. Delhi’s water reflects a strange mix of power, ...
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Wrecked rivers hit back
OVER the past two months, there has been a series of natural disasters including flash floods, thunderstorms, cloudbursts, landslides, and ...
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Highways vs rivers
When highways get built, they traverse many water bodies which feed rivers and streams and may in fact be more ...
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Yamuna is a little bit cleaner
THE Yamuna river is showing some signs of improvement in its water quality. The levels of biological oxygen demand (BOD) ...
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Riverfronts kill rivers
RECENTLY, over 2,000 citizens participated in a unique protest along the banks of the Mula-Mutha river in Pune by hugging ...
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Map and save water bodies
A few months ago, I travelled to Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh to carry out a mapping and surveying project ...
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How cities swallow rivers
While working on the older Corona satellite pictures of Lucknow, I was impressed by the number of rivers that the city ...
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Floods now on climate agenda
MORE and more towns and cities across the world are facing the threat of extreme flooding. Climate change is increasingly ...
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Bring back wild and scenic rivers
IN my city I often search for a spot by the side of the Gomti river which looks somewhat wild ...
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Dense city, dense flooding
THE rain in September and October with unexpected, powerful cloudbursts, and the phasing out of the monsoon was unusual on ...
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River as a person with rights
THE idea of endowing legal rights on non-humans and entities with constitutional protections is not new. Local grassroots movements ...
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Rivers need groundwater
THE Ganga basin, the world’s most densely irrigated area, is a global hotspot of groundwater depletion. The five states through ...
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