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Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?
1 week, 4 days ago

Will China's Massive Dam Project Spark A Water War With India?

India Today  

China’s controversial plan to construct the world’s largest dam on the Brahmaputra River in Tibet is raising alarm bells in India, as tensions between the two nations escalate. Beijing claims that the ambitious project is primarily for energy generation, but experts are concerned that it could drastically disrupt the river’s water flow, sparking a potential water crisis for millions downstream. …

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Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes

CNN  

CNN — The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new study. Nearly half of the world’s largest downstream rivers — 44% — saw a drop in the amount of water flowing through them each year, …

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Flash Floods Devastate Spain, With Hundreds Missing
2 months, 1 week ago

Flash Floods Devastate Spain, With Hundreds Missing

India Today  

Spain experiences devastating flash floods, with several areas receiving record rainfall. The torrential downpour has caused widespread destruction, with cars swept away by the water and roads turning into rivers. Several bodies have been found in affected areas, and emergency services are working to rescue individuals trapped in floodwaters. The Spanish government has established a crisis committee to coordinate relief …

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Connecting the drops: Mridula Ramesh writes on India, China and the mighty Brahmaputra
4 months, 1 week ago

Connecting the drops: Mridula Ramesh writes on India, China and the mighty Brahmaputra

Hindustan Times  

It was round and black with a tiny trilobite embedded in its smoothness. Colonial rulers introduced another change that profoundly shaped our geography: tax schemes that pushed farmers towards cash crops, and came packaged alongside a truly dangerous idea: that technology can always improve water supply, so one needn’t worry too much about use. But, a 2023 study found that …

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Yellow River’s Moonlit Night tour opens for business
4 months, 1 week ago

Yellow River’s Moonlit Night tour opens for business

China Daily  

The Yellow River's Moonlit Night tour officially opened at the Yellow River Hengcheng Tourist Resort in Ningxia Hui autonomous region on Monday. “Yellow River's Moonlit Night” opens at the Yellow River Hengcheng Tourist Resort in Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The night tour project, themed “A Full Moon Rises Over Hengcheng”, presents the epic production Yellow River's Moonlit Night as a …

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Cooum — a winding, flowing, stinking lifeline of Chennai
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Cooum — a winding, flowing, stinking lifeline of Chennai

The Hindu  

Ask anybody in Chennai as to what are the names of the three rivers that flow through the city, and they will most likely be flummoxed. Factually, there were four rivers – the Kosasthalaiyar, the Cooum and the Adyar that flow west to east, and the Elambore which went north to south and turned east near the General Hospital into …

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Director's return to the source
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Director's return to the source

China Daily  

Director Ryo Takeuchi receives the award. CHINA DAILY When Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi appeared for his scheduled online interview with China Daily, he was sitting in a cafe near a historical site in Zhengzhou in Henan province. "Look over here, the ancient wall behind me dates back 3,600 years," he said enthusiastically via his phone, pointing out of the window, …

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Meghalaya's Dawki Lake Is The Cleanest Water Resource In India; All You Need To Know
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Meghalaya's Dawki Lake Is The Cleanest Water Resource In India; All You Need To Know

News 18  

Many Indians dream of going on a foreign trip, but the dream often remains unfulfilled due to financial constraints. One such hidden gem is Dawki Lake, situated in a small village in Meghalaya, promising mesmerising natural beauty to the visitors. Dawki Lake – known as Umngot River – located in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya, is the best …

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Activists watch for potential impact on environment as Key Bridge cleanup unfolds
9 months, 1 week ago

Activists watch for potential impact on environment as Key Bridge cleanup unfolds

Associated Press  

Authorities removing twisted wreckage from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge are deploying nearly a mile’s worth of barriers in the water, testing samples for contamination and monitoring the Patapsco River for oil and other hazardous spills as they confront the potential for environmental fallout. The possibility for a major environmental problem could arise from the bridge materials …

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Editorial: L.A. may not get another wet winter for a while. We should prepare for drier times
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: L.A. may not get another wet winter for a while. We should prepare for drier times

LA Times  

A wet February weekend, as shown in this Feb. 4 photo of the Grammy Awards ceremony at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles, gave way to a wet March as the 2024 Southern California rainy season drew to a close. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power captured and stored more than 13.5 billion gallons of stormwater in February …

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Legislators call for high-tech curbs on pollution
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Legislators call for high-tech curbs on pollution

China Daily  

Workers clean water lettuce from a section of the Yihe River in Yinan, Shandong province, in October. "In recent years, the ecology of the Yellow River has kept improving," he said, referring to the better water quality and decreased exposure to industrial waste. The Yellow River flows across several agricultural heartlands such as Shaanxi province, and the Ningxia Hui and …

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Court upholds state plan to require more water in California rivers
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Court upholds state plan to require more water in California rivers

LA Times  

A court has upheld a key decision by California’s water board calling for reductions in water diversions from the San Joaquin River and its tributaries to help revive struggling fish populations. The judge’s ruling, issued in a 162-page order last week, supports the State Water Resources Control Board’s 2018 adoption of a water quality plan for the lower San Joaquin …

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Open defecation in Mudumalai’s rivers during temple festivals poses a risk to wildlife: conservationists
10 months ago

Open defecation in Mudumalai’s rivers during temple festivals poses a risk to wildlife: conservationists

The Hindu  

The surge in devotees to multiple temple festivals in the buffer zone of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, is raising concerns about the possibility of river contamination due to open defecation. The MTR buffer zones hosts temple festivals in Bokkapuram, Siriyur, Chokkanalli, and Anaikatty each summer, when rivers flowing through the landscape have very little water in them. According to conservationists …

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Risks ease for Colorado River reservoirs after wet winter, but long-term challenges loom
10 months ago

Risks ease for Colorado River reservoirs after wet winter, but long-term challenges loom

LA Times  

After a wet year and a push to conserve water in the Southwest, federal officials say the risk of the Colorado River’s reservoirs declining to critically low levels has substantially eased for the next couple of years. Touton called it a significant milestone, saying the Biden administration has successfully “staved off the immediate possibility of the Colorado River system’s reservoirs …

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California isn’t prepared for turbocharged storms like the ones we’re getting this week
11 months, 1 week ago

California isn’t prepared for turbocharged storms like the ones we’re getting this week

LA Times  

As a series of major winter storms sweep over the West Coast this week, anxious Californians are looking back at the flash floods and the “thousand-year” deluge that shocked San Diego a week ago, and Oxnard a few weeks earlier, wondering what’s in store. Starting Tuesday night, and then again on Sunday, two “atmospheric river” systems will bring high winds …

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Dongping Lake makes list of national beautiful lakes
1 year, 2 months ago

Dongping Lake makes list of national beautiful lakes

China Daily  

A bird's-eye view of Dongping Lake, one of the 39 beautiful rivers and lakes in China. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently announced that Dongping Lake in Tai'an's Dongping county was selected as one of the 39 beautiful rivers and lakes in China. The lake is the only flood control and water storage area in the Yellow River Basin …

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Rivers ‘will continue to rise’ following Babet as ‘risk to life’ flood warnings issued
1 year, 2 months ago

Rivers ‘will continue to rise’ following Babet as ‘risk to life’ flood warnings issued

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Environment Agency said three …

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As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge ‘one-dam solution’
1 year, 4 months ago

As Colorado River shrinks, California farmers urge ‘one-dam solution’

LA Times  

John Weisheit, co-founder of the group Living Rivers, says the Colorado River should be restored to a more natural state by decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam. For years, environmentalists have argued that the Colorado River should be allowed to flow freely across the Utah-Arizona border, saying that letting water pass around Glen Canyon Dam — and draining the giant Lake Powell …

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Exhibition spotlights river civilizations
1 year, 5 months ago

Exhibition spotlights river civilizations

China Daily  

The Civilizations of the Great Rivers exhibition is being held at Ningbo Museum. YIN FUJUN/FOR CHINA DAILY HANGZHOU — The Civilizations of the Great Rivers exhibition, the result of collaboration between Chinese and Italian cultural institutions, is being held until October in Ningbo Museum in East China's Zhejiang province. Items on show include seals and pottery from the Tigris-Euphrates river …

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Sewage spills cause river in seaside town to be declared ‘ecologically dead’
1 year, 7 months ago

Sewage spills cause river in seaside town to be declared ‘ecologically dead’

The Independent  

A river in a UK seaside town has been declared “ecologically dead” following a series of sewage spills, a local activist group says. According to River Lim Action Group, South West Water discharged 2,200 hours’ worth of sewage spills into the river in 2022. The River Lim flows through the Dorset town of Lyme Regis and into the sea Monitoring …

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‘Failing’ infrastructure is killing fish and ‘devastating’ rivers, anglers say
1 year, 9 months ago

‘Failing’ infrastructure is killing fish and ‘devastating’ rivers, anglers say

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy “Devastating” sewage spills will continue to kill fish and pollute rivers unless Thames Water updates …

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Sewage: England’s most polluted rivers revealed
2 years, 4 months ago

Sewage: England’s most polluted rivers revealed

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Lamouth Creek, River Fal, Cornwall, is the most polluted spot in terms of the hours …

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New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori
2 years, 4 months ago

New Zealand river’s personhood status offers hope to Māori

Associated Press  

WHANGANUI, New Zealand — The Whanganui River is surging into the ocean, fattened from days of winter rain and yellowed from the earth and clay that has collapsed into its sides. It’s a part of us.” ___ In 2017, New Zealand passed a groundbreaking law granting personhood status to the Whanganui River. “And for too long, we’ve assumed it’s been …

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European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops
2 years, 4 months ago

European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops

Associated Press  

LUX, France — Once, a river ran through it. “These are species that will gradually disappear.” Jean-Pierre Sonvico, the regional head of the federation, said diverting the fish to other rivers won’t help because those waterways also are affected. Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher at the European Drought Observatory, said a drought in 2018 was so extreme that there were …

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