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 …
The interim report of the House Committee of the Assam Legislative Assembly constituted to study/examine the impact of the big dams being constructed on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river on the downstream areas of the State has called for keeping in abeyance all construction activities on major dams …
The Centre has finally admitted that excessive siltation of Brahmaputra and Barak rivers was primarily reasons responsible for recurring floods in Assam. However, the Government of Assam has stopped dredging of rivers way back in 1978 and Centre has not made any separate budgetary allocation for de-siltation of rivers to …
Faced with the criticism over its functioning, the Government of India proposes to amend the existing Brahmaputra Board Act 1980. The proposed amendments include expansion of the Board by including West Bengal, Minister of State for Water Resources Vincent H Pala said in a Lok Sabha reply. The Union Government
Revenue Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman today admitted in the State Assembly that erosion has become a far more dangerous problem than floods and the efforts made so far to deal with the problem failed to yield the desired results. In reply to a question by Phani Bhushan Choudhury (AGP), the …
Though the change of course of a river is not a new phenomenon, the latest change of course of the mighty Brahmaputra has created a major concern. The mighty river is turning south and it will have an adverse effect on Kaziranga National Park along with Dergaon and Golaghat. At …
The mighty Brahmaputra has wiped out nearly 4,000 square kilometres of area at a rate of 80 square kilometres per year, destroying more than 2500 villages and affecting more than five million people in Assam. A view across the Brahmaputra near Sukleswar Ghat, Guwahati, in Assam.Assam's Water Resources Department has …
Deltas around the world are either eroding or have stopped progressing. Climate change, sea level rise, flood management measures take the blame. Since a delta is formed where a river meets a standing body of water, there is talk about diverting more water and sediments into the bay to save …
A CAMPAIGN is slowly building up in Assam against the construction of large dams on rivers in Arunachal Pradesh, with experts as well as intellectuals fearing that these dams will have serious implications in the Brahmaputra valley. Environmentalists, researchers and intellectuals, who met here over the past two days over …
Experts are trying to determine the factors mainly responsible for river bank erosion in Assam, particularly in its Brahmaputra Valley for several decades, as, erosion has been causing more havoc for the State
Guwahati:Sensing the mood of the public in certain districts in the north bank of Brahmaputra River over construction of mega dam projects in upstream areas in Arunachal Pradesh and near inter-state boundaries the Opposition Asom Gana Partishad (AGP) is out to cash in on it. The AGP while making an …
For the last two decades the world has been trying to explain how arsenic leaches into groundwater in the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra floodplain. Solutions, however, are very few. An estimated 100 million people are still at risk from contamination. The latest research says floodwaters can remove arsenic. A team headed by Linda …
Concerns about food security and apprehensions of future water scarcity are common to all the countries in the world. This paper focuses on the water issue between India and Bangladesh. Crisscrossed by the rivers and streams, Bangladesh is a water-abundant country with low-per capital water availability. Almost 94% of the …
This study aims to determine trends in the annual and seasonal total rainfall over Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basins of India. The data used in this study consists of daily gridded rainfall data.
Progress of the construction work of Bogibeel Bridge over the Brahmaputra, which has been declared as a national project, is satisfactory. The project is expected to be complete by March 2014. This was stated by senior officials of the NF Railway at a review meeting held by Chief Minister Tarun …
The placid Siang or the Dihang, as the Brahmaputra is called in Arunachal Pradesh, flows quietly under an old-style swing bridge just before Tuting. ONLY seven rivers that rise in Tibet flow through India. They are the Indus, the Satluj, the Karnali (through Nepal), the Subansiri, the Brahmaputra and the …
Hydrological modelling of large river catchments is a challenging task for water resources engineers due to its complexity in collecting and handling of both spatial and non-spatial data such as rainfall, gauge discharges, and topographic parameters. In this paper an attempt has been made to use satellite-based rainfall products such …
This report synthesises the main findings from five studies of local responses to climate-related water stress and floods. The case studies were carried out between June 2008 and September 2009 as part of the two projects
