Our National River Ganga

Author : Rashmi Sanghi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319005300

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Our National River Ganga by Rashmi Sanghi Pdf

There is a plethora of information available on the river Ganga in the form of books, blogs, articles, websites, videos. Unfortunately, most of the information about this famous river is in a scattered form and reproduced from unverified sources. This contributed volume is the first multi-author volume publication on this subject. The River Ganga includes a vast array of topics written by several authors of distinction. Topics include; hydrology, tributaries, water uses, and environmental features such as river water quality, aquatic and terrestrial flora/fauna, natural resources, ecological characteristics, sensitive environmental components and more. Part I gives a basic introduction of the Ganga river. The existing data and available information from various sources has been compiled in a pictorial fashion in the form of cmaps. Its cultural importance with changing times is also discussed. Part II looks at the rich biodiversity of the Ganga Basin. It gives a detailed description of the major floral and faunal biodiversity with special emphasis on the national aquatic animal dolphin and Sunderbans, the largest mangrove wetland in the world. Part III examines ‘The Ganga Water as it flows’. It focuses on the water quality as well as its associated challenges. Part IV looks at the complexities of issues confronting the river ‘Ganga in changing times’ be it snowmelt runoff, river bank erosion hazards and hydropower assessments; how the factors of population, poverty and pollution contribute to the fate of the river. Part IV touches on economic aspects derived from the river such as business opportunities and tourism.

Author : J. S. Datta Munshi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 8170357993

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The River Ganga by J. S. Datta Munshi Pdf

Author : Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030791179

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The Ganges by Vishwambhar Prasad Sati Pdf

‘The Ganges: Cultural, Economic, and Environmental Importance’ is a geographical, cultural, economic, and environmental interpretation of the Ganga River. The Ganga River originates from Gaumukh- situated in the high Himalaya, flows through the world’s biggest fertile alluvial plain, and inlets into the Bay of Bengal at Ganga Sagar. It makes a unique natural and cultural landscape and is believed to be the holiest river of India. The Hindus called it ‘Mother Ganga’ and worship it. The towns/cities, situated on its bank, are world-famous and are known as the highland and valley pilgrimages. The water of the Ganga is pious, and the Hindus use it on different occasions while performing the rituals and customs. This book is unique because no previous study which presents a complete and comprehensive geographical description of the Ganga has been composed. This book presents the historical and cultural significance of the Ganga and its tributaries. Empirical, archival, and observation methods were applied to conduct this study. There are a total of 10 chapters in this book such as ‘Introduction’, ‘the Ganga Basin’, ‘Geography of the Ganga Basin’, ‘the Ganges System: Ganga and its Tributaries’, ‘Ganga between Gaumukh and Uttarkashi’, ‘the Major Cultural Towns’, ‘Major Fairs and Festivals’, ‘Economic Significance of the Ganga’, ‘Environmental Issues’, and ‘Conclusions’. The contents of the book are enriched by 89 figures, 15 tables, and substantial citations and references.

Author : C. R. Krishna Murti
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
ISBN : 8172110219

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The Ganga, a Scientific Study by C. R. Krishna Murti Pdf

The book Ganga: A Scientific Study is based on an Integrated Research Programme carried out by 14 Universities located in the Ganga Basin sponsored and funded by the Envioronment Research Committee and The Ganga Project Directorate, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India, New Delhi. The Ganga, one of World's major rivers, has been venerated as the holiest and is bound with countless beliefs and faiths especially in India and adjacent countries. Its water has traditionally been regarded as an inexhaustible gift of nature. Recent experiences do not, however, warrant such a complacency. The water resources are strained to a non-sustainable level due to rapid population explosion, urbanisation, development of agriculture, industry, livestock and power production in the Ganga basin. The hydrobiological quality of water has deteriorated and yet no concise, valid supporting evidence was available in a comprehensive manner covering the entire river. This book is an attempt towards this direction. For the first time a picture of the Ganga is available with its physico-chemical and biological charateristics, the severe pollution stress and causes to which its water is subjected to, the contents and quality of water and possible remedial measures. An account of algae including pollution sensitive and tolerant species, besides bio-indicators is available. A possible modelling exercise has also been included. A microbiological assay and the bacteria present in the river water is also given. This book, in short, is a synthesis of what the Ganga is at present in respect of its hydrobiology, pollution load, and some aspects of hydrology.

Author : Victor Mallet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9780198786177

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River of Life, River of Death by Victor Mallet Pdf

India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing." Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. Starting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the "Cow's Mouth" and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. Can they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe - or is it too late?

Author : Luna Bharati,Bharat R. Sharma,Vladimir Smakhtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317479475

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The Ganges River Basin by Luna Bharati,Bharat R. Sharma,Vladimir Smakhtin Pdf

The Ganges is one of the most complex yet fascinating river systems in the world. The basin is characterized by a high degree of heterogeneity from climatic, hydrological, geomorphological, cultural, environmental and socio-economic perspectives. More than 500 million people are directly or indirectly dependent upon the Ganges River Basin, which spans China, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. While there are many books covering one aspect of the Ganges, ranging from hydrology to cultural significance, this book is unique in presenting a comprehensive inter-disciplinary overview of the key issues and challenges facing the region. Contributors from the three main riparian nations assess the status and trends of water resources, including the Himalayas, groundwater, pollution, floods, drought and climate change. They describe livelihood systems in the basin, and the social, economic, geopolitical and institutional constraints, including transboundary disputes, to achieving productive, sustainable and equitable water access. Management of the main water-use sectors and their inter-linkages are reviewed, as well as the sustainability and trade-offs in conservation of natural systems and resource development such as for hydropower or agriculture.

Author : George Black
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781250057358

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On the Ganges by George Black Pdf

Travel along the shores of the Ganges and glimpse the past and future of the people who live there.

Author : Sudipta Sen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300119169

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Ganges by Sudipta Sen Pdf

A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to the merchants that navigated its waters, and the way it came to occupy center stage in the history and culture of the subcontinent. Sen begins his chronicle in prehistoric India, tracing the river's first settlers, its myths of origin in the Hindu tradition, and its significance during the ascendancy of popular Buddhism. In the following centuries, Indian empires, Central Asian regimes, European merchants, the British Empire, and the Indian nation-state all shaped the identity and ecology of the river. Weaving together geography, environmental politics, and religious history, Sen offers in this lavishly illustrated volume a remarkable portrait of one of the world's largest and most densely populated river basins.

Author : Anthony Acciavatti
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0982622619

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Ganges Water Machine by Anthony Acciavatti Pdf

Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the Ganges River basin--today home to over one-quarter of India's billion-plus population--a space historically defined by a mythological constellation of terrestrial sites imbued with celestial significance. Not only is it one of the most densely populated river basins in the world, but it also undergoes dramatic physical changes with the onslaught of the wet monsoon, where over one-meter of rainfall occurs in the span of three months. This book focuses on the intersection of these two observations. It is an atlas of built and unbuilt projects designed to transform the river into a giant water machine. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, this mythical watercourse has functioned as a laboratory to test and build a new civilization around the culture of water. Jointly authored by people and nature, the Ganges River is today a monstrous water machine in which the entire basin became a workshop of human-made experience, defined by a hydrological system best described as a supersurface: a surface engineered from the scale of the soil to the scale of the nation. Everything from diffuse urban projects and green revolutions to colossal public works programs and architectural transformations constitute the genesis of the Ganges Water Machine. Whether to thwart massive peasant uprisings or to redirect monsoonal rains to productive ends, never before has a river that inspired the realization of unbelievable architectural and infrastructural projects received as little scrutiny as the Ganges river basin. Reaching through the very heart of some of India s most densely populated cities, small towns, industrial zones, sacred sites, and mountainous forests, Ganges Water Machine by Anthony Acciavatti, composed of eight years of field and archival research, explores and theorizes the people and infrastructures that shaped this territory. Ganges Water Machine is an atlas of the enterprise to make the Ganges River basin into a highly engineered landscape: it reveals the narratives and explanations that allowed engineers and planners to realize fantasies previously only imaginable on paper or in myth.

Author : Manvendra Singh Chauhan,Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030608699

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The Ganga River Basin: A Hydrometeorological Approach by Manvendra Singh Chauhan,Chandra Shekhar Prasad Ojha Pdf

This book presents an overview of the hydrometeorological and hydrological studies and assists in tackling challenges posed by climate and land use land cover changes. The Ganga River is one of the major living streams on the planet earth and very important river system in India. This holy river is a lifeline for approximately five hundred million people. In the last few decades, River Ganges has been subjected to tremendous pressures with respect to both water quantity and water quality. This situation, already one of the alarming magnitudes, has been further provoked by hydrometeorological changes resulting in droughts, floods and reduced groundwater levels and river flows in addition to the poor river health. Thus, it is imperative to assess the various complexities and possible solutions for better management of River Ganges. This book is a valuable addition to the literature and contributes to research on River Ganges which will help better planning and management of Ganga river basin. The hydrological and hydrometeorological aspects covered in this book help practitioners, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders.

Author : Pranab Kumar Parua
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048131037

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The Ganga by Pranab Kumar Parua Pdf

From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.

Author : K..J. Nath,Vinod Prakash Sharma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788132237457

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Water and Sanitation in the New Millennium by K..J. Nath,Vinod Prakash Sharma Pdf

This contributed volume is about water resources, their variability with prevalent environmental conditions and its sustainable management in India. Water has always been the life line for survival. An adequate supply of safe drinking water is one of the major pre-requisites for a healthy life. Time and again water has been a means of consolidating power in the human society. In the beginning of the new millennium, water has become a major issue in India. India is known to have the gift of its unique river systems have abundant water resources but ironically India faces severe water crises and other water management issues on a vast scale. The water related issues in India varies with both time and space. From crises of potable water, lack of sanitation, water borne diseases, to pesticide and heavy metal contamination, water related predicaments are highly prevalent in India and are more grave in rural set up.

Author : Wu Xun,Wasson Robert James,Poocharoen Ora-orn
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814704595

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Ganga Rejuvenation: Governance Challenges And Policy Options by Wu Xun,Wasson Robert James,Poocharoen Ora-orn Pdf

This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. Attempts over the past three decades to clean up and rejuvenate one of the world's greatest rivers have proved futile. The major reasons for the lack of success are absence of long-term planning, poor co-ordination and failure to sustain whatever little infrastructure for water and sewage treatment could be developed. Focusing on these broad aspects, the book explores spaces for better governance through active community participation, knowledge management, prospects of Public-Private-Partnership, e-governance, youth education, waterfront development, lessons from past failures, comparative international analogies, utilization of external aid and global expertise in successful implementation of a sustainable long-term plan for a river basin's integrated development of both the economy and environment. A host of activities, such as, improving pollution monitoring systems, new development plans for tourism enhancement; river dredging and sewering riparian cities are already being carried in the hope of quick results. The Government of India has also appointed a task force for preparation of a long-term strategy. However, substantial knowledge gaps persist especially with regard to governance. This book aims to address the governance and policy issues and will be a very timely contribution to cleaning as well as rejuvenating Ganga, a river that is lifeline of millions of people. Contents: IntroductionHistorical Evaluation of Ganga Action Plans (Dawa Tshering, Denny Ariaputra, Soh Siew Luie, Tashi Tobgay and Wang Nian)Forming a Broad Umbrella: Facilitating Inter- and Intra-State Coordination (Hlaing Myat, Lay Sopagna, Sirilak Kakanopas, Soe Myint Aung, Visvanathakkurukkal Sokkanathan and Joost Buurman)Educating the Youth: Facilitating a Sustainable Transformation of Ganga (Low Lay Chin, Mark McKiernan, May Yu Lwin, Siow Boon Teik, Erwin and Thamil Selvan Govintharaju)Social Mobilisation: The Fight for Hearts and Minds in Ganga Rejuvenation (David Geordie Wilks, Gilbert E Lumantao, Giridharan Sengaiah, Gloria Wei Wanting, Karen Ann Leong Sun Lian and Khial Muhammad Afghanzai)Whither PPPs? Sustaining Sewage Infrastructure in Ganga Basin (Vishal Kapoor, Xuan Xiao, Zhang Jiapeng and Zhao Huaning)Principles of Waterfront Development — Lessons for Varanasi (Kok Hoong Chan, Thi Thanh Huyen Do, Lay Ling Lim, Salai Aung Myint and Shikha Thaman)Data Governance in Fostering Policy Coherence and Collaboration for Cleaning the River Ganga (Doris Maharlika H Dizon, Prudente S Parcia, Rakesh Kumar, Wai Min Kwok and Maitreyee Mukherjee)Creating a Knowledge Management Culture for Ganga River: An Essential Tool for Success (Thanathorn Asanarong, Sowon Jeon, Ren Yuanlin and Christopher Yeo)Regional Collaboration in the Ganga Basin: Prospects for a Cleaner Ganga and Regional Peace (Elijah Lau Maung-Hoe, Chang Lih Kang, Goh Si Mien, Tetsuya Lim Hayashi and Tran Thanh Tung)Managing Competing Demand for Water in the Ganga: Lessons from the Yellow River (Han Mingyu, Cao Dongdong, Li Na and Panji Ruky) Readership: Practitioners, policy-makers and civil society organizations that are working for the Ganga clean-up and rejuvenation; general public, NGOs, environment agencies and aid agencies interested in the topic. Keywords: Governance;Ganga Rejuvenation;Comparative Analysis;E-Governance;Knowledge Management;Waste Management;Resilience;Stakeholder Involvement;Institutional ReformsReview: Key Features: First of its kind to present governance issues that w

Author : Imtiaz Ahmed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030694340

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Rights, Rivers and the Quest for Water Commons: The Case of Bangladesh by Imtiaz Ahmed Pdf

Right to water may sound novel and somewhat dramatic, yet it has been central to the quest of human civilization for thousands of years. One of the earliest references to water as ‘common property’ can be found in the Jewish laws as early as 3000 BCE.Similar views are also found in Islam. In fact, the Arabic word for Islamic law - shari’ah - originally meant “the place from which one descends to water.”Since water is a gift from the divine to all living beings, sharing water is regarded as holy duty. This is found across religions, regions, societies, and communities, from New Zealand to Nigeria, from Bangladesh to Brazil. But then, what transformed the divine sanction? What led to the negation of the ‘commons,’ with sharing of the riverine water across territorial boundaries suffering the most?The answer probably lies as much as in the politics of safeguarding one’s personal or national interests as it is in the limitations imposed by our disciplinary understanding of things.In this context, a thorough reexamination, even reconceptualization,of some of the core issuesis required.Firstly, the concept of water needs to be understood not as H2O, as it is done in physical sciences,but as H2OP4. That is, the meaning of water in social sciences must include not only ‘twice hydrogen plus oxygen’ but also four P’s - pollution, power, politics and profit. This is not to discount the ‘science’ in the conceptualization of water but rather to add elements central to social sciences.Secondly, the concept of river needs to be redefined and understood not as a carrier of water, as assumedin most of theWestern languages, but as ‘nadi,’ a flow consisting of prana (life), shakti (power), and atman (soul), as etymologically definedin most of the South Asian languages. This comes closer to what critical hydrologists would say, WEBS, that is, a ‘river’ consists of water, energy, biodiversity and sediment. In this light, any fragmentation of transboundary river waterin the name of ‘sharing’becomes an unworkable option, unless of course a mechanism is found to ‘share’the water of the river along with its energy, biodiversity and sediment, and that again, without distorting and harming the life of the river!Thirdly, the subject of ‘water commons’needs to be approached from the standpoint of ‘rights’ of both human andriver. This is to flag the notion that nature, including rivers, has ‘rights’just like humans, although their manifestations may be different. In fact, empowered humans, particularly those in control of the state, have more ‘responsibility’ than ‘rights’ in dissuading themselves and others from creating conditions of human wrongs, not only against fellow human beings but also against nature.Finally, if the ‘rights’ ofhumans are to be ensuredthen there is an urgent need to reconceptualize and mainstream the human as a multiverse being. This is because humans are not only political beings but also economic, cultural, ecological, technological, and psychological beings. In this light, if conflicts are to be contained then humans need to be empowered in all possible areasof life – politics, economics, ecology, culture, technology, and psychology. This would certainly require empowering each and every person, all at the same time receptive to nature in general and rivers in particular.The book is designed to initiate a discourse on the civilizational quest for water commons, indeed, with the expectation that a discussion on rights and rivers would lead to a creative flow of ideas and practices.

Author : Dr. V. C. Sinha,Anju Agarwal
Publisher : SBPD Publications
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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NEP Environmental Science 2nd Sem (AEC) by Dr. V. C. Sinha,Anju Agarwal Pdf

1. Multidisciplinary Nature of Environmental Science, Scope and Importance 2. Concept of Sustainability and Sustainable Development 3. Ecosystem 4. Natural Resources : Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources and Land Resources 5. Forest Resources : Deforestation 6. Water Resources 7. Food Resources 8. Energy Resources 9. Biodiversity and Its Conservation 10. Environmental Pollution 11. Environmental Policies and Practices 12. Human Community and Environment.