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 …
JORHAT, Aug 10: Affected by severe erosion, the river island of Majuli is threatened by extinction as every year it loses a large chunk of land to the mighty Brahmaputra in the middle of which it is situated.Data available at the Majuli Circle Office from 1972 reveals how serious the …
Every time the State is hit by floods, the political temperature rises and the clamour for revamping Brahmaputra Board reverberates, but the original proposal mooted in 2004, is yet to take first step in its legislative journey. The proposal envisaged to redefine and widen the objective of the Board, so …
On the whole, around 90 per cent progress has been attained so far in implementing the about Rs 140-crore Matmora protection project in Dhakuwakhana subdivision of Lakhimpur district. Implementation of the entire project is expected to be completed by mid-October next.The project, treated as a pilot one for its being …
Snow and glacial melt are important hydrologic process in the Himalayan basins and changes in temperature and precipitation are expected to seriously affect the melt characteristics. Melt water is extremely important in the Indus basin and important for the Brahmaputra basin.
A group of engineers here claim that a local technology has been developed to narrow down the ever-widening Brahmaputra and to make it follow a desired and deep course with steeper flow gradient. The Brahmaputra has greatly widened almost all through its course in the State, except at places like …
NEW DELHI, July 22: The Union Ministry of External Affairs set up a monitoring committee that is watching Chinese activities through various agencies on trans-border rivers flowing from China to India, says Union Minister of Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal. Replying to a letter from Dibrugarh MP Paban Singh Ghatowar, …
China has told India it will only carry out 'run-of-the-river' projects on the Brahmaputra that will not affect the flow of water, says Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal. "There is intimation from China that it will only carry out run-of-the-river projects, which would not affect the flow of water …
Its hydro-engineering projects suggest China is fashioning water as a card against India Brahma Chellaney New evidence from China indicates that, as part of its planned diversion of the waters of the Brahmaputra, preparations are afoot to start work on the world
ORHAT, June 27: The third wave of flood of the year has taken a serious turn in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) and the biggest river island Majuli today. The rising water of the river Brahmaputra has submerged many areas of the KNP and Majuli since last night and the …
Resentment prevails among the river engineers here over the persistent pressure from a powerful lobby in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for use of geo-bags to resist Brahmaputra erosion in Palasbari-Gumi and Dibrugarh. It needs mention here that the State Government is working on a scheme to protect Palasbari, Bankuwal …
The State Water Resources Department (WRD) has proposed revision of the Brahmaputra danger level (DL) for Dibrugarh town so far as the flood vulnerability of the town is concerned. The town has at present 104.24 metres set as the DL for the river. Sources in the WRD told this newspaper …
The Assam government has roped in a group of German experts for finding a long-term solution to the decades-old problem of floods and erosion caused by the Brahmaputra and its tributaries, and a preliminary report has been prepared and submitted to the state government by the group. The state is …
A concept paper drafted for development and application of sustainable river management options for the Brahmaputra as part of a European Commission (EU)-sponsored project, laid stress on channelising the Brahmaputra to mitigate bank erosion and reclaim new land, basing on comprehensive analysis. It has also proposed gradual reduction in the …
