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The River Ganges at Kolkata, ... (Cawnpore in map). The Ganges Canal, ... yet upstream of Varanasi's ghats the river water already contains 120 times as much, ...
Bottom left: Map of the Yarlung Tsangpo River watershed which drains the north slope of the Himalayas. This is a list of dams on the Brahmaputra River and hydro–infrastructure in the Brahmaputra River Basin which is a key constituent of the Ganges -Brahmaputra basin of Himalayan rivers.
The Ganges Basin is a major part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. On the west the Ganges Basin borders the Indus basin and then the Aravalli ridge.
Three additional dams across the Ganges River are located at Bijnor, Narora, and Kanpur. [22] The dams at Bijnor and Narora divert all the water, including base flows during the dry season, to canals for irrigating areas up to Allahabad city. Flow upstream of the Kanpur barrage is used during the dry season for the drinking water supply of ...
The Ganges river abruptly changed course 2,500 years ago following a devastating earthquake, ... When a river changes course, sediments wash from upstream, settle and build up and eventually cause ...
The Bhagirathi River is mythologically known to be the source stream for the Ganges River. In hydrology, the Alaknanda is the source stream for the Ganges River due to its length and discharge. The Alaknanda River, including its tributaries, is 664.5 km (412.9 miles) and the Bhagirathi River, including its tributaries, is 456.5 km (283.7 miles ...
The Dhauliganga river valley shown in a high-resolution map based on detailed surveys The confluence with the Alaknanda. The Dhauliganga is a turbulent Himalayan river which rises in the border regions of India and China and flows south into the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India. It joins the Alaknanda, the major source stream of the Ganges ...
In ancient Hindu texts, the Alaknanda river has been used synonymously with the Ganges river. In the Vishnu Purana, the Ganges river which surrounds the city of Brahma divides into four and one of rivers is called Alaknanda, which flows south to India. [6] Five rivers merge with the Alaknanda and are referred to as prayag or 'holy confluence of ...