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Book Synopsis Dirty, Sacred Rivers by : Cheryl Colopy
Download or read book Dirty, Sacred Rivers written by Cheryl Colopy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia.
Book Synopsis Dirty, Sacred Rivers by : Cheryl Colopy
Download or read book Dirty, Sacred Rivers written by Cheryl Colopy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population. To tell the story of this enormous river basin, environmental journalist Cheryl Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps around the rough embankments of India's poorest state in a jeep with social workers; and takes a boat excursion through the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests at the end of the Ganges watershed. She lingers in key places and hot spots in the debate over water: the megacity Delhi, a paradigm of water mismanagement; Bihar, India's poorest, most crime-ridden state, thanks largely to the blunders of engineers who tried to tame powerful Himalayan rivers with embankments but instead created annual floods; and Kathmandu, the home of one of the most elegant and ancient traditional water systems on the subcontinent, now the site of a water-development boondoggle. Colopy's vivid first-person narrative brings exotic places and complex issues to life, introducing the reader to a memorable cast of characters, ranging from the most humble members of South Asian society to engineers and former ministers. Here we find real-life heroes, bucking current trends, trying to find rational ways to manage rivers and water. They are reviving ingenious methods of water management that thrived for centuries in South Asia and may point the way to water sustainability and healthy rivers.
Book Synopsis Trials & Tributaries by : Rex Robbins
Download or read book Trials & Tributaries written by Rex Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the springtime of 2012, the author completed a traverse of the entire Buffalo River located in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. By chance, the hiking and canoe trip occurred during an extended dry weather season almost like none other. In the following years, he melded the account of that trip with those many stories he knew from the sometimes eccentric, but always interesting residents of the area. The parched conditions of that spring, and the hardships it caused as he moved downriver, became a metaphor for his own personal life struggles and his spiritual and religious transformation. All rivers are sacred, but this book testifies to the power of a particular wild river, and the people who revere it, to offer understanding and solace when facing life's personal challenges and mysteries.
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Book Synopsis River of Life, River of Death by : Victor Mallet
Download or read book River of Life, River of Death written by Victor Mallet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for three millennia is now so polluted with sewage and toxic waste that it has become a menace to human and animal health. Victor Mallet traces the holy river from source to mouth, and from ancient times to the present day, to find that the battle to rescue what is arguably the world's most important river is far from lost. As one Hindu sage told the author in Rishikesh on the banks of the upper Ganges (known to Hindus as the goddess Ganga): "If Ganga dies, India dies. If Ganga thrives, India thrives. The lives of 500 million people is no small thing." Drawing on four years of first-hand reporting and detailed historical and scientific research, Mallet delves into the religious, historical, and biological mysteries of the Ganges, and explains how Hindus can simultaneously revere and abuse their national river. Starting at the Himalayan glacier where the Ganges emerges pure and cold from an icy cave known as the "Cow's Mouth" and ending in the tiger-infested mangrove swamps of the Bay of Bengal, Mallet encounters everyone from the naked holy men who worship the river, to the engineers who divert its waters for irrigation, the scientists who study its bacteria, and Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister, who says he wants to save India's mother-river for posterity. Can they succeed in saving the river from catastrophe - or is it too late?
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Download or read book Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book On the Ganges written by George Black and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel along the shores of the Ganges and glimpse the past and future of the people who live there.
Book Synopsis Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age by : John Holmes Agnew
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Book Synopsis Between the Bridge and the River by : Craig Ferguson
Download or read book Between the Bridge and the River written by Craig Ferguson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the south suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre adventures that are somehow interconnected.
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Book Synopsis In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains by : Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming
Download or read book In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains written by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming and published by London : Chatto and Windus. This book was released on 1884 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Permanent History of Bharata Varsha by : K. Narayana Aiyar
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Book Synopsis A Walk Along the Ganges by : Dennison Berwick
Download or read book A Walk Along the Ganges written by Dennison Berwick and published by Dennison Berwick. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
