Rising Significance of River Waters

Hi friends,

I read the term "Potamology" ,"The science of Rivers"in "The Hindu" today's newsppaper . I read about this term on internet  as it is new term gaining significance .I thought I should write and share with you .

Rising Significance of River Waters :

You must  be reading a lot about the devastating floods that occur in Uttarakhand taking lot of lives and damaged the state economy that purely run on tourism. Who is responsible for this ?How this has happened ? how disaster management will be done ? what are future remedies ? These questions will arise in everybody's mind . But here in this blog I will try to explain the reasons how this tragedy happens and what our government should do save mankind in future .

The reason behind this flood is the clearing of trees on the sides of river banks due to unregistered and improper buildings that were built around mountains and rivers that leading to soil erosion . This soil erosion causes soil to flow into water and blocks the river flows.

So it is government responsibility to look upon this. I am not as such against government , but this is a general opinion. So we here need to first understand the science of rivers which our government process has to follow so that these kind of tragedies should not happen in future .

Science of Rivers is also called Potamology ,a term which has gained significance due to calamities happpening due to rivers. There are five subjects that come under Potamology :

1)Physics of Running Water
2) The Volume of Water and its Fluctuations
3) The action of water on its bed
4) The Distribution of running water on earth
5) Rivers as a scene of Organic life

Our policy makers should understand and safeguard our rivers , how much water water could they provide , where dam and canals can be built . The main thing to be kept in mind is that "Water in a river runs " , which is defining property of water in a river and it is noone's concern now.Rivers are multi hued and promotion and practice of potamology should be promoted in planning process to see things from holistic perspective and acting according to that.