Open floor discussion on River Charter at India Rivers Week, 2014
Channel: IndiaWater Portal
Date: 2015-01-04

With ‘Rivers in crisis’ as the theme, the Conference attempted to devise a National Charter for Rivers and promote a National Forum for Restoration of Rivers. To begin with, it has come up with a Charter for Rivers in form of a Delhi Declaration on Rivers – Let our rivers live.
The declaration deals with the causes of decline of rivers and sates that the task in front of us is two-fold –
o The immediate stoppage of all harmful factors and interventions, so that rivers that are now in reasonable health may remain so, and those already affected to some extent are not  further harmed; and
o The restoration of sick and dying rivers to reasonable health within a certain period of time. 
 It then provides an elaborate account of river What is a river?”, “What is a dying river?”, “Imperative of a flowing river”, “Threats to river”, “River futures” etc.