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How freeing rivers can help California ease flood risks and revive ecosystems
10 months ago

How freeing rivers can help California ease flood risks and revive ecosystems

LA Times  

Throughout the Central Valley, California’s rivers have long been held within their banks by levees and berms, artificially disrupting the natural cycles of flooding and preventing streams from meandering across the landscape. “Floodplains are this really important feature of rivers,” said Julie Rentner, president of the nonprofit group River Partners, which has led the restoration effort along with the Tuolumne …

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California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk
2 years, 8 months ago

California leads effort to let rivers roam, lower flood risk

Associated Press  

MODESTO, Calif. — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape. The Dos Rios Ranch Preserve is California’s largest single floodplain restoration project, part of the nation’s broadest effort …

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NGT Orders The Constitution Of Joint Committee To Analyse The Damage To Riverine Ecology Due To Illegal Constructions On Floodplains Of Mahanadi River
3 years, 11 months ago

NGT Orders The Constitution Of Joint Committee To Analyse The Damage To Riverine Ecology Due To Illegal Constructions On Floodplains Of Mahanadi River

Live Law  

The National Green Tribunal in an order dated 15.12.2020 constituted a Joint Committee to consider the effects of the proposed construction of new campus of SCB Medical College on the river beds and floodplain zones of river Mahanadi, Cuttack. A bench headed by Chairperson, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel took note of the instances of irreversible damage to the "riverine ecology" …

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The mystery of the Murray-Darling's vanishing flows
4 years, 3 months ago

The mystery of the Murray-Darling's vanishing flows

ABC  

It might be the biggest whodunnit — or what-dunnit — in Australia. For the first time, they provide evidence that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan — the most expensive environmental program in Australia's history — is delivering much less water than was expected. "It's a huge discrepancy to be missing a fifth of the water that's meant to be in the …

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