Erosion of the river banks in India have become recurrent event causing enormous problem for the people and the Government. With the increase of population along the bank of the rivers, the erosion of township, cluster of villages and important communication system, govt. resources are over exploited. Presently a large number of township, villages, human dwellings a number of important installa...

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BACKGROUND Chagas disease in the Brazilian Amazon Region was previously regarded as an enzootic disease of wild animals. More recently, in situations where humans have penetrated the wild ecotope or where triatomines and/or wild animals (marsupials) have invaded human homes resulting in disease transmission, Chagas disease has come to be regarded as an anthropozoonosis. We found that the highes...

water samples have been collected from key parts of haraz river along different points andanalyzed for various water quality parameters during winter and spring season. effects of industrial wastes,municipal sewage, fish farming and agricultural runoff on river water quality have been investigated. thesurvey was conducted on along the haraz river (185 km) from near its headwaters at the polour,...

Three species of crabs new to Penghu County, Taiwan are reported. Nanhaipotamon formosanum (Parisi, 1916) was found on the bank of a river in Husi Village and is the first report of a true freshwater crab from Penghu. In the same locality, Eriocheir japonica De Haan, 1835 lives in a river which implies Penghu may have played a role as a "stepping stone" for this species during the dispersal bet...

population-based survey randomly selected the hamlet of Tunku. The survey team waded across flooded paddy fields, constantly asking for directions. Tunku turned out to be a cluster of five mud huts perched on a hill on the bank of the River Gambia. The team found two families and one blind old woman there. The villagers could only reach their homes from the river using dugout canoes, and they g...