Dinesh Mishra  and Shripad Dharmadhikary speaking at India Rivers Week, 2014
Channel: IndiaWater Portal
Date: 04/01/2015

In this session the participants were to arrive at a narrative on “River – Threats”. The focus was on structures (Dams, Barrages, Roads & Bridges) & flow diversion; Embankments; Pollution; Invaded flood plains; Hydro-power  ; Deforestation; Soil Erosion; Sandmining & River bed dredging; Flood control; Biological harvests / poaching; Constitutional & Legal issues.  Concurrent discussions were held by four groups on the topics (a) Dams, embankments, barrages, HEPs (RoR) (b) Polluted & encroached rivers (c) Over exploitation of river resources (sand mining; fishing; diversion of water etc) and (d) Unprotected status of rivers & river conflicts ( Constitutional, Legal issues).