Good news for The Ganga. The Economic Times reports… NEW DELHI: Keeping religious sentiments and environmental concerns in view, a Group of Ministers (GoM) on Friday scrapped the NTPC’s controversial 600 MW Loharinag Pala hydel project on Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand. Headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the GoM in a meeting made a detailed [...]
GoM decides to scrap NTPC hydel project on Bhagirathi river
By Paul Stewart in August 28th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under conservation, dams, habitat, heritage, hydropower, rivers, social structures, watershed Tags: Bhairon Ghati, free flow, Hindu, Loharinag Pala, Loharinag Pala hydel, Pala Maneri, scrapped, The Bhagirathi River, The Ganga River, The Ganges River, Tributary of the Ganga, Tributary of the Ganges River, Uttarakhand
Filed Under conservation, dams, habitat, heritage, hydropower, rivers, social structures, watershed Tags: Bhairon Ghati, free flow, Hindu, Loharinag Pala, Loharinag Pala hydel, Pala Maneri, scrapped, The Bhagirathi River, The Ganga River, The Ganges River, Tributary of the Ganga, Tributary of the Ganges River, Uttarakhand
Heavy rains disrupt prayer rituals by India’s Ganges River
By admin in August 5th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under flooding, heritage, monsoon, rivers, social structures Tags: danger level, The Ganges River, varanasi
Filed Under flooding, heritage, monsoon, rivers, social structures Tags: danger level, The Ganges River, varanasi
By Damanjeet Kohli for Channel NewsAsia UTTAR Pradesh, India: India’s holy Ganges River is swelling after heavy rains. In Varanasi town of northern Uttar Pradesh, scores of devotees have had their prayer rituals disrupted by the overflowing river. The monsoon season is considered auspicious by Hindus, who come to take a dip in the iconic [...]
Water is a good servant but a bad master
By admin in August 4th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under Burma | Myanmar, China, The Mekong River, climate change, collaboration, communications, disaster, flooding, food security, mapping, rivers, watershed, world water Tags: Afghanistan, bangladesh, bhutan, disaster-prone, frozen water, Hindu Kush-Himalayan, Humanitarian Futures Programme, ICIMOD, india, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, nepal, Pakistan, The Amu Darya River, The Brahmaputra (or Yarlungtsanpo) River, The Ganges River, The Indus River, The Irrawaddy River, The Mekong or Lancang River, The Salween (or Nu) River, The Tarim (or Dayan) River, The waters of the Third Pole, The Yangtse (or Jinsha) River, The Yellow (or Huanghe) River, Third Pole
Filed Under Burma | Myanmar, China, The Mekong River, climate change, collaboration, communications, disaster, flooding, food security, mapping, rivers, watershed, world water Tags: Afghanistan, bangladesh, bhutan, disaster-prone, frozen water, Hindu Kush-Himalayan, Humanitarian Futures Programme, ICIMOD, india, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, nepal, Pakistan, The Amu Darya River, The Brahmaputra (or Yarlungtsanpo) River, The Ganges River, The Indus River, The Irrawaddy River, The Mekong or Lancang River, The Salween (or Nu) River, The Tarim (or Dayan) River, The waters of the Third Pole, The Yangtse (or Jinsha) River, The Yellow (or Huanghe) River, Third Pole
IRIN JOHANNESBURG, 4 August 2010 (IRIN) – The floods in northwest Pakistan could be a foretaste of things to come if you go by a recent report warning that in the next two decades factors like climate change could make water-related humanitarian crises a new source of concern. The waters of the Third Pole, produced [...]
A breach of faith in dams
By Paul Stewart in July 18th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under dams, disaster, drought, finance, hydropower, rivers, water security, watershed Tags: corporate violation, corruption, cumulative impact assessment study, Government of India, india, Lohari Nagpala Hydel Power Project, ministry of environment and forests, National Ganga River Basin Authority, The Alaknanda River, The Bhagirathi River, The Ganges River, The Law, The Srinagar project, Uttarakhand government
Filed Under dams, disaster, drought, finance, hydropower, rivers, water security, watershed Tags: corporate violation, corruption, cumulative impact assessment study, Government of India, india, Lohari Nagpala Hydel Power Project, ministry of environment and forests, National Ganga River Basin Authority, The Alaknanda River, The Bhagirathi River, The Ganges River, The Law, The Srinagar project, Uttarakhand government
Hindustan Times For the Uttarakhand government, the hydropower story is becoming a case of ‘so near and yet so far’. Its dream of building a network of projects on the Ganga has run into yet another roadblock. Last week, the Environment and Forests Ministry’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) decided not to give clearance to any [...]
'80 million' attended India's Ganges festival
By admin in April 30th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under festival, rivers, social structures, world water Tags: bathers, cycle of life, hindus, kumbh mela festival, rebirth, sacred water, The Ganges River
Filed Under festival, rivers, social structures, world water Tags: bathers, cycle of life, hindus, kumbh mela festival, rebirth, sacred water, The Ganges River
AFP NEW DELHI — About 80 million people bathed in the river Ganges in northern India during the Kumbh Mela festival that lasted 104 days, organisers said on Wednesday as the event drew to a close. The Kumbh Mela, which is billed as the largest festival on Earth, attracts Hindus from across the country to [...]
Call goes out to save the Ganges Dolphin
By admin in February 24th 2010 No Comment »
Filed Under conservation, flora and fauna, fresh water, habitat, rivers Tags: conservation plan, dolphin conservation, freshwater dolphins, ganges river dolphin, IUCN, The Ganges River
Filed Under conservation, flora and fauna, fresh water, habitat, rivers Tags: conservation plan, dolphin conservation, freshwater dolphins, ganges river dolphin, IUCN, The Ganges River
By Imran Khan for Thaindian Patna, Feb 24 (IANS) The Ganges River Dolphin was declared the national aquatic animal last month, but is still in urgent need of being saved from extinction, experts on the subject said. There are only about 2,000 left, down from tens of thousands just a few decades ago. Participating in [...]
W.Bank to loan India $1 bln to clean up Ganges
By admin in December 3rd 2009 No Comment »
Filed Under conservation, drinking water, fresh water, health, pollution, social structures, water security, world water Tags: bay of bengal, cremation, floating corpses, ganges, glacier, Holy River, india, industrial effluents, pollution, river banks, Sacred River, sewage, The Ganges River, world bank lending
Filed Under conservation, drinking water, fresh water, health, pollution, social structures, water security, world water Tags: bay of bengal, cremation, floating corpses, ganges, glacier, Holy River, india, industrial effluents, pollution, river banks, Sacred River, sewage, The Ganges River, world bank lending
Reporting by C.J. Kuncheria; editing by Chris Pizzey for REUTERS NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The World Bank will loan India $1 billion over the next five to seven years to clean up the Ganges, the holy river that is one of the world’s most polluted, the country’s environment minister said on Wednesday. The lender will [...]
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