Guwahati, April 5: To mitigate the artificial flood in Guwahati city, the Kamrup metropolitan district administration has been taking various steps.

The Nationals and Greens encourage the PM's Warragamba dam plan, but disagree on moves to expand the policy nationwide.

Sitapur: Taking a cue from their counterparts in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh, who participated in neck-deep ‘Jal Satyagraha’ in September 2012 demanding the lowering of the water level in th

Lucknow: With a total of Rs 17,174 crore allocated for agriculture and allied sectors, UP budget-2013 is all set to shower some bounty on Uttar Pradesh’s farm sector.

The Gujarat government on Wednesday announced its annual budget for 2013-14, pegged at R1,14,450 crore with an annual development plan of R58,500 crore.

The farmer-youth-women centric budget presented by finance minister Nitin Patel has allocated the largest chunk of available resources to social service (R24,586 crore), followed by irrigation and flood control (R12,660 crore), transportation (R5,006 crore), energy (R4,996 crore), industries and mines (R 2,455 crore), agri and allied services (R3,763 crore).

China to build 3 hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra

The Chinese government said on Monday that the new hydropower dams it was planning to build on the Brahmaputra river would not impact flood control efforts or the ecological environment in downstream regions. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was maintaining “close communication and cooperation” with India on the issue, adding that it would ensure that there would be “no negative impact.”

SILCHAR: Hundreds of bighas of Agricultural land and large areas of human settlements are being continuously washed away due to erosion of river Barak across Cachar.

This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional

Exploring adaptation pathways into an uncertain future can support decisionmaking in achieving sustainable water management in a changing environment. Our objective is to develop and test a method to identify such pathways by including dynamics from natural variability and the interaction between the water system and society. Present planning studies on long-term water management often use a few plausible futures for one or two projection years, ignoring the dynamic aspect of adaptation through the interaction between the water system and society.

Shanghai is a low-lying city (3–4 m elevation) surrounded on three sides by the East China Sea, the Yangtze River Estuary, and Hangzhou Bay. With a history of rapid changes in sea level and land subsidence, Shanghai is often plagued by extreme typhoon storm surges. The interaction of sea level rise, land subsidence, and storm surges may lead to more complex, variable, and abrupt disasters. In this paper, we used MIKE 21 models to simulate the combined effect of this disaster chain in Shanghai.

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