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<loc>https://www.indiawaterportal.org/rivers-and-lakes/rivers/mercury-in-the-shadows-the-hidden-story-behind-indias-sabarmati-riverfront</loc>
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<image:caption>Hidden mercury hotspots and toxic risks beneath Sabarmati Riverfront's concrete banks. (Image: Tarun, Wikimedia Commons)</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-07-29T04:59:31.586Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Mercury in the shadows: The hidden story behind India's Sabarmati riverfront </news:title>
<news:keywords>Sabarmati Riverfront mercury contamination, Sabarmati water quality study 2026, Urban river restoration India, Sabarmati River heavy metal pollution, Sabarmati Riverfront vs river health, Ahmedabad urban water quality, Water Quality Index vs heavy metal risk, Environmental flows river management India, Sabarmati toxic hotspots industrial effluent</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://www.indiawaterportal.org/rivers-and-lakes/displacement/ken-betwa-river-inter-linking-project-between-bundelkhands-thirst-and-a-forests-survival</loc>
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<image:caption>Ken river (Image: Sarah Welch)</image:caption>
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<image:caption>From approval to foundation stone: a compressed timeline (prepared using Gemini AI)</image:caption>
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<image:caption>Map of Ken-Betwa link (Image created using Gemini AI)</image:caption>
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<image:caption>India's first river-interlinking project faces fierce legal, environmental, and human rights battles (Image: Khabar Lahariya, X Handle)</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-07-27T06:40:34.889Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>Ken-Betwa river inter-linking: Inside India’s controversial water megaproject</news:title>
<news:keywords>Ken Betwa link project, Daudhan dam construction, Panna Tiger Reserve submergence, Bundelkhand water crisis, River interlinking project India, Ken Betwa surplus water debate, Tribal displacement Bundelkhand, Chita satyagraha protest Dhondhan, Himanshu Thakkar river interlinking, Integrated landscape management plan Panna  2 Meta Titles</news:keywords>
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<loc>https://www.indiawaterportal.org/water-quality-and-pollution/water-quality-/when-rivers-meet-the-sea-how-dams-are-influencing-plankton-blooms-along-indias-coasts</loc>
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<image:caption>Sea sparkle (type of marine plankton) blooms. Source: Sander van der Wel from Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons.</image:caption>
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<image:caption>A sea sparkle.</image:caption>
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<news:publication_date>2026-07-27T05:11:51.230Z</news:publication_date>
<news:title>When rivers meet the sea: How dams are influencing plankton blooms along India's coasts</news:title>
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