Rivers Blogs Central Africa Displaying items by tag: Mining and industry
Acid mine drainage effectively remediated by natural wetlands
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Gas drilling in Russia's Far North threatens Nenets community
River Fraser : Discover a working industrial river with a wild side
Water Undone: The Efforts to Save the Puyallup River Watershed
Songhua River Basin : The PRC’s water management extends vertically and horizontally from the central government to its townships and villages
The Songhua River Basin is the third largest river basin in the People’s Republic of China. Almost the entire northeast of the country lies within this basin. The Songhua is also one of the China’s four most polluted rivers, suffering until recently from untreated urban wastewater, industrial wastewater and agricultural non-point sources.
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Brantas River Basin : A monitoring system has been established where stakeholder reporting, water quality monitoring and routine inspection are carried out
The Brantas basin in East Java supplies water to about 16 million users, but suffers from poor water quality due to rapid population growth and industrialization.
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Tsolum River Partnership Reduces Copper Contamination and Brings Salmon Back
Policy and institutional changes in Viet Nam are responding to the need to modernize river basin management
The lower part of the Dong Nai River supplies water to Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai and Binh Duong provinces and feeds a hydropower plant in the Tri An reservoir, but has been polluted by wastewater runoff from agriculture, aquaculture, industry and built-up areas (Ha et al. 2008).
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Verdades do Rio Iguaçú Completo (Poluição no Rio Iguaçu)
Drew Hutton on Condamine River coal seam gas
Integrated Water Resources Management – Model Region Mongolia – Kharaa catchment
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Fraser River: Running Free
Fraser River: Running Free from Chris Linder on Vimeo.
The Fraser River watershed, located in the Canadian province of British Columbia, includes the rain-soaked peaks of the Coast Range, the Canadian Rockies, and the dry sagebrush prairie ecosystem in between...
