Revitalization of Rivers in India Draft Policy - Isha Guru Jaggi Vasudev

Revitalization of Rivers In India
Draft Policy Recommendation
HISTORICAL APPROACHES
TO REVITALIZING RIVERS
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FIGURE 1: A RIVER AND ITS CATCHMENT AREA
Rivers gather their water from their tributaries, which in turn gather
water from streams and other rivulets that are fed by water from forests
and springs of the catchment region of the basin. The water that flows
from the catchment region into streams and rivulets is called runoff. For a
river or stream to flow, the catchment area, which is many times the size
of the river, should remain as undisturbed as possible. It is very important
that drainage channels especially are uninterrupted by any structure.
Figure 1 shows the way water is collected from various sources into
rivers. This phenomenon of draining into the river happens through the
entire stretch of the river basin from its origin to the point it meets
the sea.
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