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Hot spots the major rivers of northern India and Pakistan will flow strongly for the next 40 years, but thereafter they will be reduced to a mere trickle. This is the message of the first decade-by-decade analysis of the rivers, which are fed by the glaciers of the Himalaya.

The analysis has been conducted by researchers from the Kerala-based Calicut University, New Delhi-based Jawaharlal Nehru University, Nepal-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, and the uk-based University of Salford and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Several sites were studied

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