CSIR-NGRI study unravels 45-km long buried river in Ganga-Yamuna region
The Hindu
The river falls within a region where a lost mythological river ‘Saraswati’ was believed to be flowing in the past, says the CSIR-NGRI study
A high resolution airborne electromagnetic study in the Ganga-Yamuna region, supplemented with drilling and logging data to address the groundwater crisis, by scientists of the CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), has unravelled an exhaustive aquifer information with discovery of a 45-km long buried river equal to these two rivers.
This ancient river, likely to be extending towards the Himalayas, is characterised by porous and permeable structures and is hydro-geologically linked with Ganga and Yamuna through an underlying principal aquifer, which could help in replenishing groundwater resources in the region.
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