-The Hindu Everybody has a favourite villain to blame, yet the herd of restive elephants in the room is led by a particularly malevolent matriarch — corruption The floods have abated in Bengaluru. As individuals struggle to clean their houses, the Silt on the roads left behind by the receding water — now a fine dust that flies in the air choking us — is a reminder of those difficult times. Various analyses...
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Why Thousands Are Fleeing The River Islands Of Bangladesh -Rafiqul Islam Montu|
-IndiaSpend.com Many in Bangladesh have settled on the chars, islands in the middle of the river, formed of the Silt that accumulates along the deltaic basin. But the river Meghna is swallowing many of these islands, leaving people homeless. Charfasson (Bhola), Bangladesh: Strong waves gradually wash away the island at the mouth of the sea, and with it the houses, fields, buildings, markets, roads, everything. Over two decades of constant erosion, the island's...
More »Dams reduce sediment load in rivers leading to higher coastal erosion -SANDRP
-South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) A new study this week has reminded us what has been known for long. Dams not only store water but also trap the sediment flowing in the river. Whatever smaller quantity of water flow from dams to downstream areas, has much lower or no Silt. A lot of that Silt was supposed to reach the coast, helping fight against the erosion of...
More »A hydro onslaught the Himalayas cannot take -CP Rajendran Mallika Bhanot
-The Hindu There is rock solid scientific evidence to demand the cancellation of many upcoming and approved hydel projects In normal circumstances, when a mistake is understood and suffered, one tends to learn from it and not repeat it. Unfortunately, this does not hold true in the case of the policy makers who are bent upon permitting projects and large-scale infrastructure in the already fragile and vulnerable Ganga-Himalayan basin. Recurrent disasters in...
More »Is Uttarakhand abusing disaster management laws to allow rampant riverbed mining? -Mukta Joshi
-Newslaundry.com The state’s River Training Policy appears designed to allow near unfettered mining of sand and boulders by private contractors, bypassing green clearance and scientific assessment. In November 2020, a few months before floods ravaged Uttarakhand, the deputy collector of Purnagiri in Tanakpur district announced an open auction of tenders to deSilt the riverbed in Champawat’s villages. Tenders for government work usually seek the lowest bidder, the contractor willing to do the job...
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