Rivers are among the key natural resources of any country. Since a river flows over a large terrain, it supports a wide range of biodiversity and sustains the livelihoods and the well being of a myriad people and civilisations. Over the last few decades, haphazard urbanisation, unbridled expansion of manufacturing activities, burgeoning growth in the […]
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First settled by the Aryans around 1200 BC, the flood plains of Ganga have been venerated and worshipped as the symbol of our traditions and values ever since. The entire ecosystem of the Ganga has provided innumerable goods and services to the people of India, hence earning it the sobriquet of being ‘the mother of […]
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Water quality in India has been under the scanner for considerable time now. Chemical testing falling within the scientific purview, uses instrumentation to publish results at periodic intervals, identifying pathogens and other inorganic toxic substances in the water. But then, say one was to identify by mere observation how clean a water body is— would […]
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The Statistics A report on ‘State of The Environment and Policy Retrospective: 1972–2002’ by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), states that the total volume of water on Earth is about 1400 million km3 of which only 2.5 per cent, or about 35 million km3, is freshwater. Of this only a fraction, approximately less than 1 […]
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