This publication presents the results of more than five consecutive years of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi, India’s water bodies. In collaboration with the Delhi Jal Board, The University of Virginia’s Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program, proposing to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in Delhi and creating vital urban links with the Yamuna River as it flows through India’s capital city. Through the research, methodologies, and designs contained within this publication, this project aims to serve as a catalyst for the urgent recovery of the Yamuna River and its tributaries, building a publically accessible body of information and expertise resulting in visions of what an alternative future would be. Only by addressing human equality and the complexity of Delhi’s urban phenomenon can the social and ecological crises manifested through these neglected water bodies be solved.

"Very few scholars in religious studies have achieved Haberman's combination of textual and ethnographic authority. The book is groundbreaking, building on his achievements in the study of the religious traditions of Braj; he is widely regarded as a major authority on this area of Hinduism's complex regional matrix. The superior scholarship, combined with the author's personal voice, gives the book additional resonance, bringing to light an urgent environmental and moral challenge."—Paul B. Courtright, co-editor, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Religion, and Culture

This book is designed to provide concepts, methodologies, and approaches for river basin studies with respect to water resources and environment. The book is not limited to the Yamuna River basin, but will help in the study of various other river basins for integrated water resources management. The book covers the essential components of integrated water resources management, including analysis of climatic variables, climate change detection, analysis of natural resources, geology, geomorphology, socio-economics, water budgeting, flood estimation, river pollution, etc. Furthermore, the book addresses recent issues pertaining to water quality, water quality indices, environmental flows, water resources management through cropping pattern change, etc. along with methodologies and application to the Yamuna River system. However, the main objective of this book is to address important issues of water resources management of river basins. Audience: The manuscript has been designed so that it can be used as a reference for river basin studies. The book will be useful to engineers, agricultural scientists, environmentalists, planners, managers, and administrators who are concerned with water resources.

Explores the collision of sacred purity with environmental pollution of the river Ganga (Ganges)

For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in Visit Sunny Chernobyl, Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, Visit Sunny Chernobyl fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it's time to start appreciating our planet as it is—not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer—and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.

The Geography of Rajasthan PDF is an attempt to provide chapter-wise information on various topics that for part of RAS Examination Geography Syllabus. The PDF contains 19 chapters covering across dimension of Geography, most of the information is available on the website of RajRAS in geography section. The idea behind PDF is to consolidate the information related Geography of Rajasthan in single document. The Geography of Rajasthan PDF is not merely notes made out of standard books, rather, most of the information has been sourced from Newspapers, Rajasthan Government sites, and other current affairs sources. Few of the static Geography chapters have been prepared from standard Books. Table of Contents: Physical Divisions of Rajasthan Geology of Rajasthan Earthquake Hazard in Rajasthan Climate of Rajasthan Water Resources of Rajasthan Water Resource Management Rivers of Rajasthan Important Lakes in Rajasthan Important Dams of Rajasthan Irrigation in Rajasthan Indira Gandhi Canal Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project: ERCP Medium Scale Irrigation Projects Soils of Rajasthan Conservation of Soils of Rajasthan Agro-climatic Zones of Rajasthan Land Use pattern of Rajasthan Natural Vegetation-Forests of Rajasthan Wildlife of Rajasthan Wildlife Protected Areas of Rajasthan Livestock of Rajasthan Tribes of Rajasthan Hydrocarbon Rajasthan Basin Mines & Minerals of Rajasthan Agriculture Snapshot of Rajasthan

A ten-year photographic journey along the river Ganges documenting the effects of pollution, industrialisation and climate change.