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Droughts Across India's Rivers Occurring In Sync Amid climate Change: Study
Kashmir Observer
|SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 ISSUE
Climate change could be driving a co-occurrence of droughts across multiple river basins in India, causing severe water shortage and affecting food and water security, a study from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar has found.
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Researchers Vimal Mishra and Dipesh Singh Chuphal said droughts and a widespread drying of rivers are becoming more common, together driving an increase in sync between droughts across several rivers.
The findings, published in the journal American Geophysical Union (AGU) Advances, have "profound implications associated with water scarcity" for the country, the team said.
The authors modelled water flow at 45 gauge stations on major rivers across India, including Ganga and Brahmaputra, from 1200 to 2012. Historical data and observations on water flow were used for the analysis.
This story is from the SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 ISSUE edition of Kashmir Observer.
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