Decentralized planning for the Ganga basin: Decomposition by river basins

Status Paper for River Ganga

Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the Ganga River Basin: A Future Health Danger

This study highlights the severity of arsenic contamination in the Ganga River basin (GRB), which encompasses significant geographic portions of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet. The entire GRB experiences elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater (up to 4730 µg/L), irrigation water (~1000 µg/L), and in food materials (up to 3947 µg/kg), all exceeding the World Health Organization's stan...

Social Learning in European River-Basin Management: Barriers and Fostering Mechanisms from 10 River Basins

We present and analyze 10 case studies of participatory river-basin management that were conducted as part of the European HarmoniCOP project. The main theme was social learning, which emphasizes the importance of collaboration, organization, and learning. The case studies show that social learning in river-basin management is not an unrealistic ideal. Resistance to social learning was encounte...

Workflow Oriented Participatory Decision Support for Integrated River Basin Planning

The European Water Framework Directive implements integrated river basin management in the European Union. Decisions about the programme of measures should be done with involvement of stakeholders. This paper presents a spatial decision support system, which is aimed at supporting such decision making procedures. The design of the system is based on a comprehensive workflow analysis. An interac...

Landscape Editing for Planning Support in River Basin Management - FLUMAGIS

FLUMAGIS aims at the interdisciplinary development of methods and data processing data processing tools in support of the planning and management of river basins. The focus will be laid on the development of an interactive tool facilitating the evaluation and (3D) visualisation of river basin environments. This comprises the representation of current inshore water and landscape ecological aspec...