Flood and Society in the GBM Basin
The headwaters of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin span the Himalayas from the Gangotri glacier in the west to the tributaries of Yarlung Tsangpo/Siang, Lohit, Dibang and Subansiri in the east. This mega basin combining the three rivers is home to over one billion people living in the nation-states of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China.
Hydropower from Tibet to the Mekong
Hydropower from Indus to Mekong
This project explores the hydropower milieu shaping the river systems of the Tibetan Plateau to the Mekong.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Flooding and displacement in Assam
Villages flooded and people displaced or stranded
http://interceder.net/latest_news/brahmaputra
Assam urges weather data sharing with neighbors
http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-46660.html#.T_hDcvWdeVo
http://interceder.net/latest_news/brahmaputra
Assam urges weather data sharing with neighbors
http://www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnews-46660.html#.T_hDcvWdeVo
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
IBN's video program on Kanpur probably taken this past winter
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/257250/saving-the-ganga-kanpurs-leather-industry-a-bane-for-the-river.html
Dangerous drinking water situation in Kanpur, May 2012
Polluted Ganga is unable to provide potable water
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-05-10/kanpur/31654843_1_water-level-river-water-ground-water
Jal Sansthan supplied water found unfit for consumption
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/Jal-Sansthan-supplied-water-found-unfit-for-consumption/articleshow/13139643.cms
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights: Response to the Government of India's Draft National Water Policy 2012
Linking the right to water with a right to sanitation
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/hr2w/news/2012/FinalCommentsIndiaDraftNWP_MurthyWilliamsBatemanBhabha.pdf
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