Rivers Are Flooding While Wetlands Vanish: Scientists Identify a Man-Made Water Paradox in the Ganga Plains

Across one of the most densely populated river regions on Earth, an extraordinary water crisis is taking shape. Major rivers continue to flood, flood danger remains severe, and enormous volumes of monsoon water move through the East Ganga Plains. At the same time, wetlands beside those rivers are shrinking, groundwater-fed streams are drying, underground water […] The post Rivers Are Flooding…