https://www.indiawaterportal.org/water-quality-and-pollution/water-quality-/when-rivers-meet-the-sea-how-dams-are-influencing-plankton-blooms-along-indias-coasts https://media.assettype.com/indiawaterportal/2026-07-27/m39clwwb/Sea-Sparkle-Blooms.jpg Sea sparkle (type of marine plankton) blooms. Source: Sander van der Wel from Netherlands via Wikimedia Commons. https://media.assettype.com/indiawaterportal/2026-07-27/7puoy1pq/Sea-sparkle.jpg A sea sparkle. indiawaterportal en 2026-07-27T05:11:51.230Z When rivers meet the sea: How dams are influencing plankton blooms along India's coasts oceans, sea sparkles, sea sparkle blooms, plankton, dinoflagellates, Noctiluca scintillans, Harmful Algal Blooms, marine ecosystems, diatoms, silicates, sediments, rivers, dams, water quality, food webs, fisheries, carbon cycle https://www.indiawaterportal.org/environment/ecology/waiting-for-the-rains-water-and-livelihoods-in-kutch-during-a-delayed-monsoon https://media.assettype.com/indiawaterportal/2026-07-26/ixbhekrn/Photo-3.jpg A nearly dried-up pond on the outskirts of Bhuj contains only a small amount of saline, muddy water, making it unsuitable for livestock. (Credit: Jay Anjaria, Homes in the City) https://media.assettype.com/indiawaterportal/2026-07-26/ffjjad4s/Photo-1Buffalos-in-Banni14.07.2026.png Left: Buffaloes roaming the barren, grassless plains of Banni due to acute fodder scarcity. Right: Cattle rearers helping a weakened buffalo stand after prolonged nutritional stress. (Photo credit: Sunil Matang, Kutch Mitra) indiawaterportal en 2026-07-26T04:11:38.872Z Waiting for the rains: Water and livelihoods in Kutch during a delayed monsoon Kutch delayed monsoon, Delayed monsoon economic impact, Banni grassland ecological crisis, Kutch agricultural drought, Maldhari pastoralist crisis, Kutch water scarcity, Climate change Kutch Gujarat, Fodder shortage Kutch, Livestock crisis Kutch