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Hello Jammu News at 10:16:00 PM 0



Haridwar, Jun 12 :   Lakhs of devotees on Wednesday took a holy dip in the Ganga at Har ki Pauri and other ghats of the river on the occasion of Ganga Dusshehra.


Dwarkapeeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati took the ritual bath on Brahma Ghat here and prayed for the country's happiness and prosperity by making an offering of milk and flowers. 

Swami Swaroopanand was joined by a host of seers including Swami Amritananda Saraswati Brahmachari, Subuddhananda ji Maharaj Brahmachari and Sahajananda ji Maharaj Brahmachari as he took the holy dip in the river to mark the occasion.

Special prayers were held in the temples and maths dotting the city to celebrate the festival. 

An idol of Goddess Ganga kept in a flowery palanquin (Utsav Doli) was also bathed in the river at Gangotri in Uttarkashi district on the occasion which also saw thousands of devotees from all over the country and abroad to take a holy dip in the Bhagirathi.                             [Agencies]
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Muzaffarnagar, Oct 13 (PTI) The closure of Ganga canal till November 6 for clearing silt and routine maintenance will affect the water supply in 19 districts of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.

However, the supply to Delhi's Sonia Vihar treatment plant will continue uninterrupted, spokesperson of UP irrigation department Hari Sharma said.

The affected districts include Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Etah, Hathras and Firozabad, Sharma said.

Farmers are advised to use private sources like tubewells and pumping sets to irrigate their fields, he added.

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Hello Jammu News at 12:39:00 PM 0


New Delhi, Oct 10 (PTI) Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari Wednesday said his ministry had notified the minimum environmental flows for Ganga river that was to be maintained at various locations on the water body. 


Environmental flows are the acceptable flow regimes that are required to maintain a river in the desired environmental state or predetermined state. 

Calling this a significant development, Gadkari said the notification of e-flow for the river would go a long way in ensuring its continuous flow. 

Reiterating the government's commitment towards a continuous and clean Ganga, he said the draft Ganga Act will be sent to the Cabinet for approval.

"This is a very significant moment. The discussions on notifying e-flow of Ganga have been going on for a long time. We have taken this step to ensure a minimum amount of flow in the river," Gadkari said.

The notification issued by the government Tuesday will ensure that the river has at least the minimum required environmental flow of water even after its flow gets diverted by projects and structures for purposes like irrigation, hydropower, domestic and industrial use. 

This is an important step taken towards maintaining the uninterrupted flow of the river, Gadkari said.

The flow conditions in these river reaches will be monitored at hourly intervals from time to time.

The Central Water Commission (CWC) will be the designated authority and the custodian of the data.

It will be responsible for supervision, monitoring, regulation of flows and reporting of necessary information to the appropriate authority as and when required and also take emergent decisions about the water storage norms in case of any emergency.

The project developers or authorities concerned will have to install automatic data acquisition and data transmission facilities at appropriate locations at project sites within six months. 

The Centre, through National Mission for Clean Ganga, may direct for release of additional water in the Ganga river to meet special demand as and when required.

The notification also stipulates that the central and state authorities concerned shall implement demand side management plans to reduce water withdrawal from the river by adopting good and scientific practices such as efficient method of irrigation, reuse and recycle of water, including monitoring and regulation of groundwater withdrawals for various purposes.

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Hello Jammu News at 4:47:00 PM 0

Kolkata, Aug 20: Ganga, the 2600-km-long trans-boundary river of Asia, has witnessed "unprecedented low levels of water in several lower reaches" in the last few summer seasons, a study undertaken by a professor of IIT-Kharagpur has said.

The study, published recently in 'Scientific Reports' magazine by Nature Publishing Group, used a combination of satellite images of groundwater levels of Ganga, numerical simulations and chemical analyses to draw the conclusion, a statement issued by IIT-Kharagpur said today.

Abhijit Mukherjee, associate professor of Geology in IIT-Kharapur, along with researchers Soumendra Nath Bhanja from Canada and Yoshihide Wada from IIASA Austria, found out that the drying of the river in the recent years during the summer seasons was "possibly related to the groundwater depletion in the Gangetic aquifers", the statement said.

The decline of groundwater inflow (base flow) is also impacting the health of the river, it asserted.

"The present day base flow to the Ganga from the adjoining aquifers may be a third or more of the total river water volume in pre-monsoon months. The base flow might have dipped by 50 per cent from the beginning of irrigation-pumping phase in 1970s," the statement said quoting Mukherjee.

In the forthcoming summers, for the next 30 years, groundwater contribution to river Ganga will continue decreasing, it observed.

"The trend can lead to disastrous effect on the riverine ecology and lead to food scarcity for 115 million people in the Ganga basin," Bhanja pointed out.

The research was carried out under IIT-KGP Science and Heritage Initiative (SANDHI) Initiative, which focuses on "river systems and its relationship with settlement system".

The study which is of interest to the hydrology, global change community and policymakers, can help the general public understand the wider implications of groundwater depletion, Joy Sen, the coordinator of the SANDHI, explained.

Dhrubojyoti Sen, a professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT-Kharagpur, said the research brings out the scientific reasons for the decreased flows of the river Ganga, especially in the lower reaches, said.

"The findings would be extremely helpful in providing quantitative data for future planning of water resources projects in the basin," he added. (PTI)
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Hello Jammu News at 5:21:00 PM 0
New Delhi, Aug 2 : The water quality of the Ganga river has improved at several locations according to an assessment carried out by the Central Pollution Control Board, the government informed the Lok Sabha today.

In a written response to a question, Satyapal Singh, minister of state for water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation, said Dissolved Oxygen levels have improved at 33 locations and is above the primary bathing water quality requirement of 5mg/l. Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) levels and faecal coliforms have decreased at 26 locations and at 30 locations.

The river stretches where improvement has been observed are: Rishikesh, Haridwar, Allahabad Sangam, Kanpur, Varanasi (Assi Ghat), Buxar (Ramrekha Ghat), Patna (Punpun), four locations in West Bengal - Diamond Harbour, Garden Reach, Behrampore and Howrah-Shibpur.

"The comparison of observed water quality in 2017 with the bathing water quality criteria indicates that the Dissolved Oxygen, which is an indicator of river health, has been found to be within the acceptable limits of notified primary bathing water quality criteria," Singh said.

"BOD is found above acceptable limit in part stretches down stream of Haridwar to Kannauj, at Kanpur, at Allahabad, at Varanasi, some stretches in West Bengal (Behrampore, Serampore, Palta, Dakshineshwar, Howrah, Garden Reach, Uluberia and Diamond Harbour)," he added.

The central government, under the Namami Gange project, has been undertaking steps to rejuvenate the river and its tributaries and sub-tributaries. So far, a total of 221 projects have been sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs 22,238 crore for various activities.

The Ganga river basin is the largest in India and is spread across four states.    PTI

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