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Volume 8, Issue 19, December 2013

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This paper deals with water resources and fisheries resources of Kumaun region of state Uttarakhand. Rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs and ponds are the main water resources. Moreover Western Ramganga, Saryu, Kali, Kosi, Gomati, Gori, Dhauli and Eastern Ramganga were the eight major river systems which also show annual physico-chemical fluctuation. Nainital, Bhimtal, Khurpatal, Sattal, Naukuchiatal and Shymalatal are main lakes of the region which also shows annual physico-chemical variations. Tumaria, Haripura, Baur, Nanaksagar, Bagul and Dhaura are major reservoir of the region which was also the subject of the study. This paper also emphasis on the district wise fish diversity, altitudinal variations in fish distribution and diversity in culture fishery.


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First sustained atomic chain reaction achieved in 1942, December 2

Brindha V

The first man-made sustained nuclear chain reaction was created on December 2 in 1942. 15 years later, the first full-scale nuclear power plant went online. Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard and their colleagues achieve a successful, controlled chain reaction in a squash court underneath the football grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field.

Discovery, 2013, 8(19), 6

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ANALYSIS

Water and Fishery Resources of Kumaun Central Himalaya

Rakesh Verma

This paper deals with water resources and fisheries resources of Kumaun region of state Uttarakhand. Rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs and ponds are the main water resources. Moreover Western Ramganga, Saryu, Kali, Kosi, Gomati, Gori, Dhauli and Eastern Ramganga were the eight major river systems which also show annual physico-chemical fluctuation. Nainital, Bhimtal, Khurpatal, Sattal, Naukuchiatal and Shymalatal are main lakes of the region which also shows annual physicochemical variations.

Discovery, 2013, 8(19), 7-12

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