Brahmaputra Board inks pact with IIT-Guwahati for flood, erosion control

Guwahati, July 30: The Brahmaputra Board has joined hands with the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, for flood and erosion management in the Brahmaputra and Barak basins in Assam. The Brahmaputra Board in a press release said that its chairman and IIT-G director had a discussion during a joint visit to Majuli and both the organizations agreed to have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of hydraulic and allied research focussed on flood and erosion management of the Brahmaputra and Barak rivers.

The North Eastern Hydraulic and Allied Institute (NEHARI), under the Brahmaputra Board, is carrying out a study for the protection of Majuli island in collaboration with IIT-G. Massive floods devastate Majuli, the world's largest freshwater river island, and erosion by the Brahmaputra takes away a large part of it. The hydraulic model laboratory of NEHARI is the second such laboratory of its kind in the country after the one at CWPRS, Pune. [Readmore]

Row as tetrapods are dumped by Bandra Bandstand without study

MUMBAI: Questions are being raised after concrete tetrapods, leftover from the coastal road-building at Haji Ali, were dumped into the sea along the Bandra Bandstand promenade without waiting for a report on the erosion of the coast from the Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), Khadakvasla.

In fact, the Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) issued permission to shift the tetrapods two days before a planned site visit of the CWPRS. The site visit came on March 5, two days after the Mumbai Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) had given MMB the go-ahead.

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It is intriguing that the state maritime board neither waited for a report from the Central Water and Power Research Station nor conducted a deep-sea study before dumping the tetrapods at Bandra Bandstand. Government engineers appear to have only two solutions for all ills — concrete and construction. They need to work with nature to create a liveable environment. [Readmore]

India's second Physical Modelling Centre for study on flood control coming up in Bihar

PATNA: India's second Physical Modelling Centre (PMC) is being set up at Veerpur in Bihar's Supaul district by the Water Resource Department (WRD) for carrying out research on flood control and their related wings.

The proposed centre will be equipped with all the latest technology-based systems to facilitate study and research on floods and river flow trend amongst experts from across the country.

After the PMC becomes operational, the state's WRD will save money and time on schemes related to flood control in the Kosi and anti-erosion works.

On Friday, Minister of Bihar's Water Resource Department Sanjay Kumar Jha, accompanied by principal secretary of WRD Sanjeev Hans and others, visited the spot to take stock of work done so far for setting up the Physical Modelling Centre.

Sources said that the PMC at Veerpur is being set up on the basis of CWPRS in Pune.

The need for this centre was realised in Bihar after the Kusha tragedy in 2008 to study the trend of flood erosion in Kosi, as well as other subsidy rivers of the state. [Readmore]

Rebuild Indo-Pak ties with Indus Water Treaty

Run-of-the-river dams have worked to the disadvantage of both countries. For India, hydel power projects based on the run-of-the-river dams are not cost-effective. Moreover, there is the problem of silting of the dams. The thaw in Indo-Pak ties must be carried forward by changing the clause pertaining to the type of dams that can be built. Such an amendment to the treaty will benefit Pakistan too.

Lt gen Harwant Singh (Retd)

Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff

The Indus Commissioners of India and Pakistan met in New Delhi on March 23-24. The main issue for discussion was the designs of the upcoming hydel projects on the tributaries of the Chenab river.

The Indus Water Treaty was signed by Pakistan and India at Karachi in 1960, with the World Bank being the third-party guarantor. India, being the upper riparian country to all six rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej), had the first right over the waters of these rivers. Yet, India gave to Pakistan, through this treaty, more than its due share of the waters (more than 80 per cent) of the six rivers. In addition, Pakistan got the waters of four Indian nullahs that join the Ravi. Through this largesse, India hoped to secure lasting peace with Pakistan.[Readmore]

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China-India relations: Beijing should speed up hydropower project, Tibetan official says

Planning and environmental impact assessments for dams on Yarlung Tsangpo River ‘should be approved as soon as possible’, region’s Communist Party deputy chief says

Chairman of the development company said in November the project would help to ensure China’s ‘water resources security and homeland security’. China should accelerate plans to build a hydropower plant on a river near its disputed border with India, a senior official said at a meeting on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress.

A proposal to construct dams on the lower reaches of the 2,900km (1,800 mile) Yarlung Tsangpo River was first presented in November and is included in China’s latest

five-year plan, which was released on Friday at the ongoing legislative meeting in Beijing. The river rises in Tibet before flowing through the Himalayas and into India, where it is known as the Brahmaputra.[Readmore]

UK Space Sector Gets £1 Million Government Boost To Support International Innovation

Five new projects have been awarded a share of over £1 million of government funding to work with international partners on innovative space technology.

London: Projects to remotely probe ice on Mars to help explorers find life below the surface, a system to warn of impacts of flood risks to infrastructure based on research in India and a scheme to design UK imaging technology for a space telescope are among the new international initiatives to receive backing from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP).

The funding will see UK companies and organizations working with partners such as NASA, and space agencies from Canada, Japan, and Italy. NSIP is the first fund dedicated to supporting the UK space sector’s innovation through collaborations with international partners designed to contribute to UK science, security, and prosperity.

HR Wallingford will be collaborating with the Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee and the National Centre of Coastal Research (NCCR), India.[Readmore]