Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1905-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-1905-2015
Research article
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22 Apr 2015
Research article |  | 22 Apr 2015

Why is the Arkavathy River drying? A multiple-hypothesis approach in a data-scarce region

V. Srinivasan, S. Thompson, K. Madhyastha, G. Penny, K. Jeremiah, and S. Lele

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Mar 2015) by Murugesu Sivapalan
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The paper asks why the Arkavathy River in southern India is drying. The study results indicate that anthropogenic drivers like groundwater pumping, eucalyptus plantations and channel fragmentation are much more likely to have caused the decline than changing climate. The multiple-hypothesis approach presents a systematic way of quantifying the relative contributions of different drivers, contributing to the policy debate and prioritizing new scientific research.