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The Chutang is now an extinct river represented by a dry channel flowing through parts of Haryana and Rajasthan. It was thickly populated during proto-historic period and the present study is spatio-temporal analysis of settlements of Early, Mature and Late Harappan periods (3200 B.C. to 1800 B.C.) in the Chautang basin to understand the Harappan settlement system on a regional scale. The environmental factors are also taken into account in a great deal while ...
Drinking water supply and sanitation in India continue to be inadequate, despite longstanding efforts by the various levels of government and communities at improving coverage. The level of investment in water and sanitation, albeit low by international standards, has increased in size during the 2000s. Access has also increased significantly. For example, in 1980 rural sanitation coverage was estimated at 1% and reached 21% in 2008. Also, the share of Indians ...
Water remains a highly sensitive political issue in West Asia given the acute shortage in the region that has the world's second fatest growing population. Periodic flare-up of hostility among the riparian states over the distribution of the waters of the Trans-border Rivers has led many analysts to predict that the next war in West Asia will be over water. This book, however, attempts to develop an argument that hydro-politics in West Asia is not necessarily ...
Damuda: Sacred Water, looks at narratives around environmental loss and conflict along the upper valley of the Damodar River Basin in eastern mainland India.
The river Damodar flowing through Jharkhand and West Bengal is often used as a poignant metaphor to indicate environmental loss in the lives of local and indigenous folk living here.
The upper tract of the Damodar, is a site of large scale industrialisation since the 1950s, home to the oldest coal mines, ...