Cities often experience growth either physically, by population, or by a combination of both. Urban sprawl in recent times is a subject of popular debate between policy makers and environmentalists in context of the status of urban people and the state of the human ecology. With the high pace of social and economic development resulting growth of urban population, lack of infrastructure, conges...

Micro hydropower helps the rural areas to supply power with off grid electrification. This study deals design of micro scheme in Gobecho kebele, Genale Dawa river basin, Ethiopia. The site for construction diversion weir is located upstream Ganga kebele. were implemented based on available hydrological data collected from 1991 2020 discharge at different stations by selecting one, which near ca...

In arsenic contaminated areas of the Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra (GMB) plain (area 569,749 sq. km; population over 500 million) where traditionally cow dung cake is used as a fuel in unventilated ovens for cooking purposes, people are simply exposed to 1859.2 ng arsenic per day through direct inhalation, of which 464.8 ng could be absorbed in respiratory tract.

The transboundary River Ganga serves as a conduit for meltwater from the Himalayas and is major freshwater source two thirds of Indian population before emptying into Sundarban Delta, largest estuary in Bay Bengal. Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) such phthalic acid esters (PAEs) bisphenol A (BPA) used organic plastic additives can pollute aquatic environment receiving litter. Hence, we ha...