Dirty, sacred rivers : confronting South Asia's water crisis /

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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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colopy, Cheryl Gene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Water > Pollution > Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
Water-supply > Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
Stream ecology > Ganges River (India and Bangladesh)
Eau > Approvisionnement > Gange (Inde et Bangladesh : Fleuve)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Ecology
Stream ecology
Water > Pollution
Water-supply
Ganges River (India and Bangladesh) > Environmental conditions.
Gange (Inde et Bangladesh : Fleuve) > Conditions environnementales.
Asia > Ganges River
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dirty, sacred rivers
  • The real poop: how rivers become sewers
  • Delhi's Yamuna
  • Melting ice rivers
  • The shrinking third Pole
  • In the valley of Dhunge Dhara
  • Melamchi River blues
  • More river blues
  • Belji of Dhulikhel
  • The sorrows of Bihar
  • The Koshi's revenge
  • The engineers
  • The Garland
  • Susu
  • Beyond barrages and boundaries
  • Poisoned blessings
  • Where the rivers end.

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