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Impacts of riverine sand mining on freshwater ecosystems: A …
Kumar and Kumar conducted a phytosociological study of a riverine sand mine and its surrounding areas in Palri Bhoptan village, Rajasthan, India. The primary impact was the direct removal of vegetation; however, the mining and dumping of tailings also altered soil profiles, changed the area's hydrology and topography, and altered the …
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The Unsustainable Use of Sand: Reporting on a Global Problem
The sand mining industry contributes to job creation and investments in mining areas and sand exportation promotes economic growth. In short, the sand industry provides economic benefits to countries producing and importing sand. Sand and gravel production is dominated by the United States, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, and India .
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Essay On Sand Mining
1355 Words6 Pages. Pereira (2012) researched on sand mining in India by studying three villages in Maharashtra and realised that as global demand for sand is exploding and rising rapidly, the sources of sand and gravel such as riverbeds, beaches, creeks are being mined faster than nature can replenish. This creates a highly skewed supply-demand ...
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Illegal Sand Mining: India's Biggest Environmental Challenge?
A grave challenge. It is difficult to put exact numbers to the damage caused by illegal sand mining in India. However, a report submitted by the Union environment ministry before the Rajya Sabha ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Sand Mining from the
Indiscriminate sand and gravel mining over the years has imposed irreparable damages to the river ecosystems in the southwest coast of India. Lack of adequate information regarding the extend of environmental impacts caused by sand mining is a major lacuna challenging regulatory efforts and minimizing the adverse effects of river …
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River Sand Mining and its Management: A Global …
Indiscriminate sand and gravel mining over the years has imposed permanent damages to the river ecosystems in the several parts of the India. Padmalal D. (2008–2014) is one of the leading researchers in India to successfully address the several consequences of instream and floodplain sand mining. S.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF RIVER SAND MINING
The construction boom has fuelled the demand of sand and gravel, weak governance and prevalent corruption has facilitated the uncontrolled and illegal mining of the rivers, threatening their very existence. In several states of India indiscriminate and extensive mining of sand is taking place in major rivers.
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The Struggle Over Riverbed Mining in India | International Rivers
In February 2012, the Supreme Court of India ruled that approval under the 2006 Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification is needed for all sand mining and gravel collection activities, even if the area being mined is less than 5 hectares (12.5 acres). It also made some critical observations related to environmental impacts of sand mining.
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Sand Extraction: 1. Introduction
Introduction. Sand and gravel are used extensively in construction. In the preparation of concrete, for each tonne of cement, the building industry needs about six to seven times more tonnes of sand and gravel (USGS, 2013b). Thus, the world's use of aggregates for concrete can be estimated at 25.9 billion to 29.6 billion tonnes a year for 2012 alone.
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Geography of Sand and Gravel Mining in the Lower Mekong River
Sand and gravel mining from rivers has increased throughout the developed countries since at least the mid-1900s, for construction (concrete) and for landfill (railways, motorways, land reclamation in flooded areas, offshore reclamation). ... India and other fast-growing economies of South-East Asia. The detrimental impacts of aggregate ...
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Best river sand mining practices vis-a-vis alternative sand making
Environmental impacts of sand mining. Excessive mining of gravel and sand from riverbeds causes river degradation. It reduces the river bottom levels which in turn leads to floodplain erosion (river bank erosion). ... The legislative ambiguity and dilutions are the major challenges in any country vis-a-vis sand mining. In India, for example ...
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE MINING LAWS IN INDIA
The primary legislation for regulating the mining industry in India is the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Act, 1957. The act has been passed by the legislature in pursuance to ...
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The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World's Sand
Nothing sounds so dull — even for most environmentalists — as sand mining. But in India, reports of sand mafias cashing in on the country's construction boom have lately been making headlines. ... Every ton of cement requires six to seven tons of sand and gravel to make concrete. Concrete is the predominant use for sand. But sand also ...
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Tapping technology to check minor mineral plunder
With the increase in the pace of development, the demand for minor minerals such as sand and gravel has crossed 60 million metric tons in India. This also makes it the second largest extractive ...
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(PDF) Sand and gravel extraction from piedmont and floodplain …
Recently, there has been an increased incidence of illegal sand and gravel mining on the Yamuna River (Rawat, 2021; Singh & Kumar, 2018), which may have consequences for the hydrological and ...
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Environmental effects of river sand mining: a case from …
The Vembanad lake, the largest coastal lagoon (∼250 km 2) in the west coast of India, and its catchments cover an area of about 14,500 km 2.The entire area …
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Sand ecologies, livelihoods and governance in Asia: A systematic
In south India, sand mining is one of many anthropological pressures that impact coastal sand dune health. For example, Ghate et al. ... Effects of type, level and time of sand and gravel mining on particle size distributions of suspended sediment. Int. Res. Soil Water Conserv., 6 (2) (2018), pp. 184-193, 10.1016/j.iswcr.2018.01.005.
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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND …
• To ensure that sand and gravel mining is done in environmentally sustainable and socially responsible manner. • To ensure availability of adequate quantity of aggregate in …
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Sand Mining in India and its Evaluation using Swot …
The present study makes clear that the uncontrolled sand and gravel mining activity is the main danger to the Raidak-II River and the antagonistic ecological …
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India Rivers Week 2020 Is Sand Mining Killing our Rivers?
Some obvious Impacts of riverbed Sand mining: Sand mining in rivers or mining of River Bed Material (RBM) (including sand, gravel, boulders etc) has huge impact on Rivers in multiple ways: physical, ecological and dependent livelihoods among others. Sand is by definition, a key ingredient of the Rivers. It provides habitat for wide range of ...
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The world is extracting sand faster than it can replenish it
In India, sand mining is a controversial issue and there are many ongoing legal cases across the country. Led by China and India, the world is mining sand at unsustainable levels exceeding the replenishment rate and that can have far-reaching social and environmental implications, reveals a new report by the United Nations Environment.
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A Study of Effect of Sand Mining on Riverine Environment
Basavarajappa et al. (2014) used satellite imagery to identify the locations of sand deposits in the Kabini River in India. Jose et al. (2014) used the HEC-RAS model to assess the impacts of sand ...
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Sand Mining from …
Indiscriminate sand and gravel mining over the years has imposed irreparable damages to the river ecosystems in the southwest coast of India. Lack of adequate information regarding the extend of …
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Global sand and gravel extraction conflicts with half of UN …
A large proportion of the increase in aggregate (a collective term for sand, gravel, and crushed stone) consumption has occurred in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries.
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The messy business of sand mining explained
In India, 193 people died in accidents related to sand mining operations or sites in 2019-2020, according to a January report by the rights group South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People.
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Despite the fact that deserts are covered in sand, desert sand has a lower value in the construction sector. As a basis, rivers are the primary sources of mining sand, which is easily ...
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Sand and Gravel Mining and its Consequences on Morphometry …
The increasing demand for sand and gravel (India has the world's third-biggest constructional business after China and the USA), along with feeble governance and a higher degree of corruption, encourages uncontrolled and illegal mining of sand and gravel in the streams and coasts of India (Singh et al. 2014). Unlawful sand and gravel …
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Sand and gravel extraction from piedmont and floodplain …
Figure 1. location of Yamunanagar district in Haryana, India along with sand and gravel mining affected villages. Source: Prepared by authors. 270 O. SINGH AND A. KUMAR
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Environmental effects of river sand mining: a case from the river
The Vembanad lake, the largest coastal lagoon (∼250 km 2) in the west coast of India, and its catchments cover an area of about 14,500 km 2.The entire area lies between North latitudes 9°0′–10°35′ and East longitudes 76°05′–77°25′ (Fig. 1).The lake catchment is drained by seven small rivers (i.e. rivers with catchment area <10,000 km 2; …
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The environmental impacts of river sand mining
On top of this, sand is expensive to transport due to its weight. Mining is therefore preferably done close to where the sand is needed to prevent costs from soaring. 3. River sand mining. River sand mining is the extraction of sand (and gravel) from the drainage network of a river. By its nature, this practice effects the environment.
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