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The 100 Plastic Rivers Project Gets Cracking

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 I am Renew 0 Comments 100 Plastic Rivers, Microplastics in Water, Ocean Pollution, Toxicity, Water Pollution

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans is now widely recognized as one of major global threats—but we still know very

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Problems for River Ganga Persist Despite ODF Status

April 3, 2019 I am Renew 0 Comments Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, fecal sludge and septage management, fecal sludge disposal and management, FSSM, Ganga, ODF

According to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) assessment, domestic sewage from towns and villages along the Ganga is the main

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Ganga Riverbed Oxygen Levels Drop Due to Excessive Pollution

March 11, 2019 I am Renew 0 Comments Aquatic Life, Banaras Hindu University, Dissolved Oxygen, Effluents, Ganga, Ganga River, Ganga Riverbed, Ganges, River pollution, Sewage

Researchers at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi have found that the excess pollution in the Ganga river is not only

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Missing Water. The River disputes that matter to Indians

February 23, 2019February 23, 2019 I am Renew 0 Comments andhra pradesh, Bangladesh, Brahmaputra, China, Deforestation, India, kerala, meghna, orissa, Pakistan, polavaram, river disputes in India, Tamil Nadu, Teesta, water, water disputes, Water reservoir

While we can reminisce the famous line from The Rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge- “Water Water

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Lucknow’s Gomti ‘Riverfront’ has Harsh Lessons for Redevelopment Votaries

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Prasanna Singh 0 Comments bada Imambara, Gomti waterfront, Lucknow

The Gomti river, in many ways the lifeline for the city of Lucknow, is today in deep coma, thanks to

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