Jay O'Keeffe

A speed limit on river use

"People tend to ask what (revenue in dollars) water for environmental flows is going to generate. That's not the question you should be asking", says Professor Jay O'Keeffe in an interview with IWP.

Chicu Lokgariwar

Posted on 21 Mar, 2015 01:08 PM

Professor Jay O'Keeffe is well-known to all those who are interested in the concept of environmental flow releases. The Professor has been involved in this, all over the world, since the seventies.

Assessment of the environmental flows requirements for the Upper Ganga basin: A report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (India)

This article presents the report brought out by WWF on 'Assessing flow requirements for the Upper Ganga'

Luna Bharati

Nitin Kaushal

Vladimir Smakhtin

Posted on 22 Jun, 2012 02:27 PM

The Ganga is the most sacred river in the sub-continent, and revered by millions.It is also among the top ten rivers at risk. The key threat to the river is indiscriminate abstraction of water from the river, leavng it unable to maintain its ecological integrity or to satisfy the needs of riparian communities.

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