Tapi river is one of the major rivers in India. Tapati, Tapti, Tapee, Taapi are the other names used for the Tapi river in India. According to the legends, Tapi river also known as Tapti is the daughter of Surya (the Sun God). ...
The current debates opposing plans to link rivers of the Ganga basin and Brahmaputra Barak with water deficient regions such as western and southern India in order to handle drought and floods and water scarcity, in a broad sense, develops insecurities in the minds of rational people on the ...
The current debates opposing plans to link rivers of the Ganga basin and Brahmaputra Barak with water deficient regions such as western and southern India in order to handle drought and floods and water scarcity, in a broad sense, develops insecurities in the minds of rational people on the ...
Walking across a nation defined by its rivers—and awash in water woes Paul SalopekWater reckoning The Indus The Ganges The BrahmaputraDuring 2018 and 2019, I walked for 17 months across northern India as part of the Out of Eden Walk project, a multiyear foot journey that is following the ...
Increasingly, in the twilight years of Empire, Bengal’s rivers were declared to be an indisputable ‘water problem’.1 For the official colonial imagination, the delta’s fluvial arms were too temperamental and snaked their way across the capacious flood plains only to wastefully empty ‘millions...
R. of the rivers yield conflicting results; the material balance of uranium isotopes in the marine environment still remains a paradox. If the disparity between the results is real, then an additional 234U flux of about 0.25 dpm/cm2·103 yr into the oceans (about 20% of its river supply...
Of all the rivers of the Indian subcontinent, the Ganga is perhaps the most beautiful. It originates from Gaumukh in the Garhwal region of the Himalayas and is a superb river for inflatable rafts. Rafting on its waters is an unusual experience and one to cherish. To ride these rapids and...
Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan. By Daniel Haines. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvi, 264 pp. ISBN: 9780190648664 (cloth). Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan. By Daniel Haines. Oxford: Oxford University ...
until the fifth century A.D., owing its importance to its position at a focus of communications along five rivers, now lies buried 17 ft. beneath the modern Patna. Gaur, 160 miles north of Calcutta, which as Pataliputra's successor was estimated to have contained more than two million ...
Quaternary Ganga Plain of Himalayan Foreland Basin is drained by many incised rivers. Most workers believe that climatic turnovers are responsible for river incision. Present study shows that tectonics is instrumental for river incision. Tectonics of Himalayan and basement faults controlled the level of...