We increasingly rely on global models to project impacts of humans and climate on water resources. How reliable are these models? While past model intercomparison projects focused on water fluxes, we provide here the first comprehensive comparison of land total water storage trends from seven global models to trends from …
Although reliable figures are often missing, considerable detrimental changes due to shrinking glaciers are universally expected for water availability in river systems under the influence of ongoing global climate change. We estimate the contribution potential of seasonally delayed glacier melt water to total water availability in large river systems. We …
The world's rivers are in crisis including in North America and Europe where governments have invested trillions of dollars to clean up freshwater supplies, a study showed Wednesday. "Threats to human water security and biological diversity are pandemic," Charles Vorosmarty of the City University of New York, co-lead author of …
The Himalayan glaciers that feed Asia's five largest rivers are in no danger of disappearing by 2035, as claimed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's most recent report. In fact, only the glaciers that melt into the Ganges are shrinking, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: Researchers in China have documented what they describe as the rapid retreat of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, the source of many of the subcontinent
The water level in China's longest river, the Yangtze, is at a record low. Water levels in some areas have fallen to the lowest in 142 years, officials said. On January 8, the Yangtze water level at Hankou hydrological station in Hubei province plunged to 13.98 metres
Weeks after Chinese officials warned of a potential environmental catastrophe, the government has announced that it needs to relocate at least four million more people away from the Three Gorges Dam Reservoir area to protect the dam's "ecology'. The plan will displace all the people living on the bank of …
Hailed as one of the engineering feats of the 20th century, the Three Gorges Dam across China's Yangtze river is having a disastrous impact on the environment. Only a year after the completion of the world's largest hydroelectric project, Chinese officials have admitted that the project is causing severe ecological …
The latest report on conservation and development of the river Yangtze has found that water pollution along China's longest river is increasing. In fact, large parts of the river have been irreversibly polluted, the report notes. The 270-page Yangtze Conservation and Development Report, jointly issued by the Chinese Academy of …
Construction on the Henan Province section of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project has kicked off recently. The us $59 ambitious project aims to bring relief to the country's parched northern and north-western states. It plans to divert 44.8 billion cubic metres of water from the river Yangtze (the largest waterway …
The Yangtze river, China's largest, is heavily polluted and threatens millions living along its banks, said the state media recently. Environmentalists fear the pollution might turn the Yangtze into a "dead river' within five years. The government has promised to clean up the river, which supplies water to almost 200 …
