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During the recent years there is a growing concern for the conservation and management of our rivers, reservoirs and many aquatic ecosystems including wetlands, beels and lakes. All these systems are mismanaged due to lack of scientific data and proper evaluation of ecosystem functions to evolve an approach towards a right management. There are serious water problems and most of the river waters are not used even for irrigation and swimming purposes due to the ...
From the preface: "The literature on river ecology and pollution in India is largely spread over the past fifty years since its beginning and there are no consolidated data on any river systems to assess the changing trends over the past many years in view of the increasing anthropogenic impact on river systems. The Ganga has been studied right from Gangotri, its source to Hooghly by several workers but no trend in their longitudinal distribution of ...