Assessing ecosystem responses and socio-economic impacts of altered and free-flowing rivers

Project Status:

Ongoing

This Royal Norwegian Embassy-funded project continued ATREE’s work in the Aghnashini, Son and the Bedthi basins. The project, which is also supported by the Government of Madhya Pradesh and the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India, aims to estimate the ecological flows in the Son Gharial Sanctuary (Son basin), Madhya Pradesh. The project will evaluate the effects of hydropower projects on fish population and conduct hydrological and water quality monitoring in the Aghnashini basin. The project conducted the first-ever study of recovery of fish species below hydrologic barriers in the Western Ghats. This is the first study on ecosystem services and fish response of estuarine ecosystems and river to upstream flows of fresh water in Aghanashini basin.

Programme:

Ecosystem Services & Human Wellbeing

PI:

Dr. Jagdish Krishnaswamy

Projects Page Tabs

‘Radical shift in water conservation will prevent Cauvery-like disputes’,, The Hindu Business Line, 31 October 2016

Soon, We May Not Have a Cauvery River to Fight Over,, The Wire, 18 September 2016

Ganga dredging threatens dolphins,, Scroll.in, 5th September 2016

Arkavathy: A river that is about to disappear, , The Hindu, August 12 2016

World Water Day save water now or there will be nothing left to save, , The Hindu, 22 March 2016

Oxygen levels in Ulsoor Lake way below limit, ammonia content high,, Times of India, 10th March 2016.

Panel discussion on Cauvery issue, , Public TV Kannada, 19 September 2016

ನೀರಿನ ಬರಕ್ಕೆ ನೀಲಗಿರಿ, ಬೋರೆವೆಲ್ಗಳು ಕಾರಣ. , Udayavani 29 October 2016.