The study was approached with the following strategy: Understand how the catchment works Appreciate the context of historic land management and the requirements of existing land managers; rural land managers are the key to the success of sustainable catchment management Target management to the appropriate place: the source of the problem rather than the impact [...]
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Tajikistan weather observation station Flooding is not a new phenomenon in Tajikistan, there is evidence from a range of sources that major floods have occurred in historical times. Landforms in the mountains and foothills supply ample evidence of extreme paleo-floods. Debris flows have occurred in most of the high mountain catchments with huge fans of [...]
Landslip in the Langtang Valley – Nepal Sediment loads of Asian rivers are reported to be the highest in the world, delivering an estimated 80% of total sediment input to the oceans. These large sediment loads are due to the exposure of the geologically young rocks forming the Himalayan mountain chain, a range with some [...]
Research carried out by MNV groundwater hydrologist Sally Homoncik through Edinburgh University and the British Geological Survey, compiled a database of the distribution of manganese (Mn), a naturally occurring trace metal, in Scottish groundwater. This is linked to an investigation into the occurrence of the metal in drinking water supplies. Results showed that 28% of Scottish [...]
