The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
An imaginative action plan is required to harness the water resources of North East India for long-term economic gains. The endeavour, in due time, would also open up job opportunities for more than 20 lakh people. In the absence of such an approach, water resources have not been duly tapped …
In what could mark onset of the flood season in Assam, the Brahmaputra river is flowing above danger level at Dibrugarh and likely to rise further during the day. This was officially stated by the Flood Forecast Monitoring Directorate, functioning under the Flood Management Organisation of Central Water Commission, Ministry …
Even as the Union Government mulls over a response to Chinese plans to divert or dam the Brahmaputra, some experts are raising concerns over a range of issues, which include a depletion of ground water in the entire valley of the river. It is feared that if the Brahmaputra is …
New Delhi: The government for the first time said on Thursday that India is using satellite imagery to track the movement of the Brahmaputra river following reports about China
Putting to rest speculation about China diverting the Brahmaputra waters away from India, minister of external affairs S.M. Krishna has said that the dam at Zangmu in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo (as the Brahmaputra is called in Tibet) is a run of the river hydro-electric project, which …
China seems to be considering a new plan to divert Brahmaputra waters from the upper reaches as it battles hard with severe drought conditions, a development which has sparked fresh fears in India about the Chinese intention. While Beijing last year announced the construction of a $1.2 billion hydroelectric power …
Brahmaputra devours anti-poaching camps The changing course of the Brahmaputra and rampant erosion that have gobbled up large swathes of land is threatening Orang National Park. The river has swallowed at least two anti-poaching camps in recent years.
The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as …
The Himalayan glaciers are a valuable national and global resource – they possess the largest concentration of ice outside of the Polar Regions; regulate global climate; feed most of northern India’s perennial rivers; and are an important indicator of climate change. However, this source of water is not permanent, as …
The Assam Government is the appropriate authority to take up the issue of the apprehensions expressed by the downstream people or for that matter any organization, on the possible devastating impacts of the Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project (LSHEP), with the other authorities. This has been made adequately clear by …
The entire North-East India and Bengal will face more problems in near future as the geographical variations on the coastal lines of Bangladesh is posing the threat of its total extinction in the future. When the crores of Bangladeshis enter the NE India and Bengal adjacent to its borders, what …
