water resources
The regions of North Eastern U.P. and Bihar situated in the Terai region of Himalayas have a nearly homogeneous situation. Though the area of Northeast U.P. and Bihar do not have dams but they have other similar structures for water management such as embankments built along river coasts. Having a network of rivers, with dams and embankments, resulting in the situation of water logging,...
The special significance and characteristics of mountains require in many instances that major portions of them be afforded extra care or protection. Designation of areas as parks, reserves, sanctuaries and the like has recognised these special qualities and "senses of place".
The high mountains of the world represent one of the most extreme environments on our planet. Yet they are of immense value to mankind as sources of food, fibre, minerals and water; and they are rich in a variety of living natural resources. Though mountainous regions stand above their surroundings, usually more densely populated plains, they are linked to them in numerous ways, economically,...
Hydel technology in Nepal is shaped by macro and micro power policy models. While the state-controlled grid system supplies energy nationally, micro-hydel have been romanticised and perceived as community-oriented alternative system of rural electrification. The system has been designed with the premise that this is the appropriate form of power supply, often overlooking the existing power...
As population grows and water becomes evermore scarce, the ecological protection of mountains becomes evermore vital. There are calls for a new awareness by the people of the plains of their debt to the mountains and their inhabitants.
Planet Earth is able to distinguish itself as the living planet because of the existence of water on its surface. But easily accessible freshwater...
Skillfully carved and beautified hundreds of thousand years ago, the Great Himalayas was erected in a geological era by the in thrust of Indian plate into the great Asian landmass and decorated for ever by the unique ecology of the world. This valuable piece sustained myriad of lives providing shelter to live, flowing crystal clear water to drink and does work as greatest water towers of the...
The publication, Mountains of the World: Water Towers for the 21st Century, elaborates on the interrelationship between mountains and fresh water. Although many in-depth hydrological studies have been carried out, a global overview of the contribution mountains make to the supply of water to humankind has been notably absent. This publication presents a compilation of case studies, together...
Climatic knowledge of mountain regions is limited by paucity of observations and insufficient theoretical attention to processes within these regions. Areas where our theoretical understanding is incomplete include orographic precipitation, especially extreme events, pollutant transport and deposition, and effects of forest cover on evapo-transpiration and runoff.
Direct and indirect...
Many of Mexico's rural communities are settled in the highest reaches of their regions, relegated to the marginal areas that the wealthier or more powerful were willing to cede or unable to defend during decades of agrarian redistribution. Peasants attempt to survive on lands impoverished by erosion or with stands of trees thinned by the demands of a voracious forest-products industry and the...
The Mara River catchment is the dry weather refuge for more than one million migrating wildebeest and zebras of the Serengeti ecosystem. The river flow is affected by developments in Kenya, including deforestation and water diversion for irrigation and the proposed Ewaso Ng'iro (South) Hydropower Project. An ecohydrology model was used to predict the likely impact of these developments on the...
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