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All over England, rivers are dying. Polluted with sewage, fertilizers, biocides, microplastics & industrial effluents; some abstracted to the point of drying up.

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#rivers #LoveYourRiver #sewagescandal #riverpollution #RiverAccess Image
The recent surge in public interest & media attention is thanks to grassroots campaigners - people who know and love their local river, who’ve seen and documented the harm, and resolved to DO SOMETHING.

Taking action starts with reconnection.
Water is the ultimate connector.

Our rivers carry it through cities and countryside, through our stories & history, through every living being.

A river runs through you, between kitchen tap & toilet flush. The state of our rivers is, literally, everyone’s business. Image
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"In March 2023 the #Forest #Conservation Amendment bill was plaed before the LokSabha. Ms Prakriti Srivastava,IFS (PCCF #Kerala) & I jointly wrote a submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee, link provided at the end of the (long) thread. 1/n
highlighting the imp pts:
Fundamental changes in the proposed bill:
a)Limits the scope & ambit of the original FCA (1980), removing crucial safeguards from a vast majority of India's #biodiverse rich #forests, thereby opens the floodgates for diversion for other uses
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b) Undoes many provisions of the existing #ForestConservationAct; c) dilutes the 202/1996 #SupremeCourt ‘Godavarman’ #judgement, overturns its #conservation gains
(d) facilitates privatisation of forests to create plantations
e) shifts focus from conservation of forests to 3/n
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Receiving much pushback for calling out #GenMilley's @thejointstaff comment on Ukraine as 'landlocked'.

Critics argue that 🇷🇺 control over the #BlackSea renders 🇺🇦 effectively landlocked.

However, even a broad interpretation of 'landlocked' is flawed. Here's a 🧵why:
Claiming UKR is landlocked militarily requires overlooking Crimea's significance to Putin. It's key in controlling access to the crucial Caspian Sea, Don-Volga Canal, and a major portion of Russia's extensive inland waterway system. #Ukraine #MilitaryPerspective
In 2021, Putin emphasized the waterway's importance, pledging billions for development to connect the Black Sea and the Baltic.

gcaptain.com/russia-short-s…
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My name is Dylan Blaskey, and I am a PhD student of Civil Engineering @CUEngineering and a research assistant @INSTAAR. I have spent my whole life around #Rivers and now I am researching them with @RiversArctic!

#ClimateChange | #RHRNClimate ImageImage
My work evaluates climate change impacts on #Arctic rivers, ice transportation corridors, fish, and Indigenous communities by weaving together observations, modeling, and Indigenous Knowledges. Find out more about @RiversArctic at colorado.edu/research/arcti…
My team recognizes the validity of #Indigenous knowledge and the right of these communities to shape research that occurs in their homelands. Because of this, an Indigenous Advisory Council guides all of our project’s communication, research design, analysis, deliverables. Image
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So many are talking about #diesel & #gas shortages. Just a couple of facts from the latest @EIAgov This Week in Petroleum report.

1. US diesel stocks are below the 5 year average. Typically for this time we are between 120 to 140 million barrels of diesel.

We are at 110M... Image
2. In terms of days of supplies, last year we were sitting at 30 days of supplies, today we are at 25 days.... Image
3. In terms of production of #diesel, we are above last year's 4.6 million barrels per day; currently producing 5 million barrels of day.

Okay, if production is up and supplies are down, what is the cause?

Are we driving more?
No, diesel use is down in the US.

Then what? Image
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Fourth post in the #WildlifeWeek series. Today’s post is more of a #reviving one than #reintroduction.

Day 4 – Return of the #bandits to #Chambal !

The Red Crowned Roofed #turtle is a #species of #freshwater turtle endemic to South #Asia.
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Historically the species was widespread in the #Ganga River, both in #India and #Bangladesh. Extirpated from most of its former range but currently it has dwindled a last surviving population of less than 500 adult individuals in the #wild.
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Their population reduced drastically due to depredation of eggs and hatchlings by Golden #jackals, #habitat degradation due to #pollution and illegal sand mining in the floodplains. They are also extensively #poached for their meat and shell.
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NEW: Is #water quality in British #rivers "better than at any time since the Industrial Revolution?"
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An oft repeated claim. Is it true?

A thread 🧵

[TLDR: It's a mixed picture but, simply, available data doesn't support such a definitive claim]
Press release here: le.ac.uk/news/2022/july…
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“'Every piece of real estate in #Bangladesh is populated, and this entire area is underwater,' said Sheldon Yett, the United Nations Children’s Fund representative to the country, referring to the northeast."

nytimes.com/2022/06/24/wor… #Sylhet #FinnegansWake
1/ "But this year, the #rains have been especially intense, a harsh reminder that #climatechange is bringing more extreme weather around the world."
2/ "In #China, where recent #flooding has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the state-run news media reported this week that water levels had surged beyond flood levels in more than a hundred #rivers."
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We are delighted to release a series of short films at #COP26 showcasing UK #NatureBasedSolutions in action. The 3 documentaries explore working with #nature from rivers to coast, in cities and in the highlands of Scotland.
Read more in our press release👇
naturebasedsolutionsinitiative.org/news/nature-ba… Image
The films explore how working with #nature & #biodiversity (restoring, connecting & protecting #naturalhabitat) can provide #NatureBasedSolutions to causes & consequences of #climatechange + create jobs, support #economicrecovery & provide mental & physical health benefits. Image
The @NatureBasedSols films are led by conversations with #localpeople involved in or affected by the projects, including farmers, businesses & #conservation organisations, complemented by interviews with world leading #climate scientists and #biodiversity experts. Image
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Indian cities are not typically imagined to be biodiversity hotspots. Aspects of urban ecology often get missed in public conversations about the city.
In a series of illustrations, we explore the different dimensions of Bengaluru's lakes.
Thread 1/n
@citizenmatters @sustainBLR Image
Illustrations: Labonie Roy
Text: @ByAditiTandon @priyankash96
Anchor: @kcmouli25
Watch this space. We will update 1 illustration per day.
#environment #cities #biodiversity #art #illustrations

Let's start at the very beginning...
When you read you begin with A-be-see!
Every artwork has elements of household and construction waste that the artist found in her neighbourhood in Bengaluru. Look closely and see if you can spot them!
Leave your responses as comments :)
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"The Dry" could have been just another murder mystery film, but what made it interesting was how it weaved in the #ecological crisis in #Australia - #bushfires & #droughts - with the social crisis in #rural farming communities & small towns.
The swirling dust devils, the dried up #rivers & creeks, correlates with a societal collapse. The washing of a car with waste #water, the red crud that emerges out of shower heads, all narrating how a #rain starved society has hit its #ecological limit.
It is also about the decline of the farming community in #Australia. A telling comment in the film - an old #farmer worrying about how his #land will be tilled after he is gone: "Farms with no people. Imagine that. No need for towns. No need for any of us."
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 02/14/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/02/14/dai…
Study identifies significance of atmospheric rivers for New Zealand

phys.org/news/2021-02-s…

#significance #rivers #NewZealand
Hospital Price Transparency Could Change The Face Of Medical Debt Collections, If Advocates Exploit It | Health Affairs

healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

#hospital #transparency #debt #medical #price
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@GEJFoundation @OSIWA1 @Yoonu117 @WRAPANG @NDI @womenfundng @Naijavote @oluremisonaiya @ElectHER_NG VAW is a broader description of gender-based violence generally. It is any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in; physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women.
@GEJFoundation @OSIWA1 @Yoonu117 @WRAPANG @NDI @womenfundng @Naijavote @oluremisonaiya @ElectHER_NG it also includes threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, in public or in private life.

VAW stops women and girls from achieving “every day normal things” let alone political
participation.@ndiafrica @NDIWomen
@GEJFoundation @OSIWA1 @Yoonu117 @WRAPANG @NDI @womenfundng @Naijavote @oluremisonaiya @ElectHER_NG @ndiafrica @NDIWomen Violence targeted at women can manifest through the following.
-Physical attacks on targeted groups
-Arbitrary arrest and detention
-Abuse over voter choice
-Beatings, attacks, assault, and bodily harm
-Physically prevented from accessing registration or voting places
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Were now live, with our final dialogue for India Rivers Week 2020.

Please join us. Live stream at this link: fb.watch/21Ur6EPqac/ (1/n) #IRW2020 Image
After a lovely introduction by Prof. Amita Baviskar, we're now entering our awards ceremony.

Please follow for updates and announcements. (2/n) Image
The journey so far, of Bhagirath Prayaas Samman Award. Exemplary work by our past winners. Please see the images.

Announcement of this year's award is going to happen anytime now. (3/n) ImageImage
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BREAKING: Tension in #EdoState as supremacy clashes btw rival cult groups have persisted in #BeninCity, the state capital; at least 20 persons have died in the last one week. Cult group opened fire on three Policemen on Friday. #Military have been deployed to the troubled areas.
So many Small Arms & Light Weapons (SALW) in the hands of hoodlums in #Lagos, #Edo & #Rivers States; a serious threat to internal security of the aforementioned states. There’s urgent need for citizens to help security agencies with credible intelligence to recover those weapons.
Insecurity alert level will increase in #Lagos, #Edo, #Rivers, #Ondo & #Delta States by December unless security agencies step up surveillance & intel to recover looted arms & ammo in d hands of hoodlums. Security agencies + military can curtail it via credible intel from locals
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Looking at rivers while walking across North Bengal on the
@outofedenwalk trail with @PaulSalopek.

Part 3 of 3 articles published with @Indian_Rivers, sharing what becomes visible at walking pace. Please read/RT.

#EdenWalk #Rivers
sandrp.in/2020/11/10/riv… (1/9)
This map gives you a glimpse of the very dense drainage network in the region. Rivers don't care for "International boundaries", and make a stronger case for transboundary co-operation.

Lots of these rivers are heavily mined though. #EdenWalk #Rivers #India (2/9)
Large scale river bed mining and brick making operations are rampant all along this region in North Bengal.

Between these mining operations, railway lines and tea gardens, there are so many stories of people and wildlife - not all are pleasant. #EdenWalk #Rivers #India (3/9)
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In the last year, we profiled 12 #waterwarriors who are fighting for a water-secure #India.

1. S.Vishwanath (@zenrainman)

A water activist and urban planner who has developed over 100,000 recharge wells across #Bangalore as part of his #AMillionWells Project.

#SaveEveryDrop
2. Veena Srinivasan (@veenas_water)

The Director of @csei_org at @atree_org, her research has given us perspective on how human activities have a profound impact on water stress and has highlighted the methodological issues with our groundwater analysis.

#SaveEveryDrop
3.Aabid Surti

The octogenarian is a national-award-winning author, artist & environmentalist. Through his Drop Dead Foundation, Surti visits housing colonies in #Mumbai with a plumber in tow to fix leaking taps – a service he has been doing for free for 15 years.

#SaveEveryDrop
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Twitter needs more #waterfalls! SHARE some of your favorite GIFs, videos, photos of beautiful waterfalls here. Tells us as much as you can about them. Also, can anyone identify where this spectacular video below was taken?

#Nature #Rivers #Mountains

Seriously, can someone tell me where the #waterfall in my tweet above is located? The source account doesn’t list it. Many other accounts that have posted it in the past haven’t mentioned it. Someone knows where this is — help me out! 😊

#Waterfalls #Nature #Rivers #Mointains
Thanks to everyone — it’s Stigfossen in Norway.

world-of-waterfalls.com/waterfalls/nor…
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 10/12/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/dai…
Infographic: Visualizing the World's Top Plastic Emitting Rivers

visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-th…

#world #infographic #rivers #plastic
The Coronavirus Unveiled: Microscopic Images of SARS-CoV-2 - The New York Times

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

#images #COVID19
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If you care about #Asia’s #rivers, or interested in its #paleoclimate, I have a data set for you: 813 years of annual discharge (streamflow) at 62 stations on 41 rivers in 16 countries, from 1200 to 2012. This thread explains how we created it, and all the data underlying it.
To estimate discharge hundreds of years ago, we need three things: (1) modern discharge observations, (2) a proxy of past climate, and (3) a model that links those two.
Most of our modern observations came from GSIM, a massive effort by Hong Do, @LukGudmundsson, Michael Leonard, and @sethwestra. Besides, we emailed everyone we knew asking for more data, and our colleagues kindly shared theirs.
earth-syst-sci-data.net/10/765/2018/
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Good to see people taking an interest in our #rivers,we hope they’ll become guardians of these precious #habitats &advocate for allowing our #wildlife to thrive. But there’s a horrible hometruth that fishermen (& @EnvAgency) need to face up to-⚠️thread contains distressing images
For every new licenced fisherman there’s many more unlicensed leading to much suffering of our river #wildlife illustrated by #wildlifecrimes in this thread @EnvAgency MUST step up checking of licences&honourable fishermen must call out those endangering #wildlife @BBCCountryfile
A not uncommon injury Dagenham,Nov2019 rather than capturing the snagged swan,a hook has been ripped out tearing the esophagus.The swan attempted to feed but unable to swallow the food has lodged as a blockage(see bulge)at wound site.Successful rescue operation by @Swan_Sanctuary
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Debt Collection Officer
Location: #Abia, #Abuja, #Anambra, #Delta , #Lagos , #Oyo, #Rivers

Job Responsibilities
Ensure collections of due payments from delinquent clients
Negotiation of repayment with delinquent clients and guarantors with approval
Follow up on delinquent clients and guarantors to fulfil obligations.
Seizure of assets of delinquent clients and guarantors.
Payment of post-dated cheques for delinquent clients.
Managing of PAR

Requirements
BSc / BA / HND in Social Sciences, Business, Banking, Finance,
Marketing or any other numeric course.
Minimum of 2 years experience in debt recovery

Method of Application
lnkd.in/dhK6E8D
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