Dirty, Sacred Rivers Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis

Name: Dirty, Sacred Rivers Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis
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ISBN: 9780199845019

ISBN-10: 0199845018

ISBN-13: 9780199845019

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cheryl Colopy

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Rivers have traditionally been revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, though in recent decades, the region's rivers have 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.Dirty, Sacred Riversexplores South Asia's looming water crisis, tracing a journey through the vast watershed of the Ganges, one of the great rivers of South Asia and to many people the holiest. To tell the story of this river basin, Cheryl Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps around the rough embankments of India's…

Book details

List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Introduction



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