Here, we use "sand mining" as a generic term to embrace extraction of riverine aggregates regardless of particle size. Sand mining activities are one of many …

River sand mining is widespread in most of the developing and developed countries. Of the different types of fluvial systems, small rivers (catchment area <10,000 km 2) are the worst affected due to indiscriminate sand mining than large rivers as the area available for dissipation of negative externalities is low in small river basins.This chapter …

However, the scarcity of natural river sand and its high price forced builders to use manufactured sand (M sand) across India (Bhoopathy and Subramanian, 2022). The current project mainly uses ...

Yusuf, now studying sand mining and river systems as a Ph.D. candidate at Newcastle University in England, was born in Makueni County, southeast of Nairobi. As a , she carried water from the ...

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The No. 1 threat: sand mining. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In Southeast Asia, the famed Mekong River is under threat from upstream dams built by China. Those dams are reducing the flow of water and ...

The global demand for sand and gravel is at 50 billion tons per year, far exceeding global resource capacities. It reached 7.6 billion tons in 2021 in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB), China. However, …

Our research suggests that on the Mekong and other large rivers subject to excessive sand mining, it is imperative to establish regulatory frameworks that limit …

For example, sand mining on the Pearl River (Zhujiang) in China has lowered water tables, made it harder to extract drinking water and hastened river-bed scour, damaging bridges and embankments 7.

Sand mining (used here as a generic term that includes mining of any riverine aggregates regardless of particle size) is a global activity that is receiving increasing media attention due to...

However, the impacts of sand and gravel mining could also cause disturbances to ecological balance, since it is closely related to land use change and river degradation, besides causing conflicts ...

Lack of adequate information regarding the environmental impacts caused by sand mining is a major threat challenging regulatory efforts and minimizing the adverse …

PDF | On Dec 1, 2022, Jing Vivian Zhan published ZHU, Qian. 2022. River-sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China. Leiden: Brill. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

However, the impacts of sand and gravel mining could also cause disturbances to ecological balance, since it is closely related to land use change and river degradation, besides causing conflicts in the miners, the government, and the private relationship. Therefore the government regulation and proper supervision are needed to preserve the ...

In China, the high demand for aggregates and growing mining restrictions increased river sand prices by up to 600%, prompting extensive illegal mining in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, where more than 580 illegal sand and stone piers were detected in 2017. 65. State 4. Intensification of mining activity

Sand and gravel mining is aimed at providing materials for infrastructure development, as well as providing economical source to the miners. However, the impacts of sand and gravel mining could also cause disturbances to ecological balance, since it is closely related to land use change and river degradation, besides causing conflicts in the …

Michael Sullivan for NPR. In the sand miners' eagerness to extract the sand, not even the dead are safe. Just ask Bean Boren, a monk at the Kdey Takoy temple complex on the Mekong, just outside ...

In 2015, the total amount of sand mined in the Mekong Delta was 38,000,000m3. Three years later, in 2018, the estimation was 43,000,000m3 — more than twice the amount officially declared. The volume kept increasing in 2020, registering at an estimated 47,000,000m3. Mining sand may sound strange — unlike gold or diamond, it …

In southern India, for example, extensive sand mining along the Palar River fed a construction boom in the city of Chennai. In the images below, the dry, sandy river bed appears to have been ...

The amount of sand mined from the river from 2011 to 2017 was approximately 7.9 Mm 3, with an annual average of 1.12 Mm 3 /yr. ... We found that dam development, sand mining, and land use changes are the main drivers for flow discharge and sediment alterations. Morphological changes have increased the water transfer rate …

The problem is that the supply of sand that can be mined sustainably is finite – but as the great urbanisation boom is proving, the demand for it is anything but. Sand Mining: The Global Environmental Crisis You've Probably Never Heard Of. Times are good for Fey Wei Dong. A genial, middle-aged businessman based near Shanghai, …

Abstract. One of the major dangers to the survival of river ecosystems, particularly in developing nations, is sand mining. Unchecked urbanization is the main factor causing this illicit activity. Sand is a significant and essential component of the concrete jungles that make up urban building.

Around the capital Gaborone, river sand has been depleted to the extent that in 2013, the Botswana Cabinet ordered for the ban of river sand mining in the area. In response, the construction sector shifted its focus to resources elsewhere. Now the capital city, situated in the extreme south-east of the country, consumes millions of cubic metres ...

Recycling construction material from demolition sites and developing the potential of ore-sand are two simple ways to reduce the consumption of new sand, while contributing to global circular economy …

River sand is commonly used in the concrete mix. With a lower clay and silt content in river sand, there is more control over the workability and quality of the concrete and mortar produced. However, the excessive mining of river sand led to environmental degradation. Read the complete article to learn about river sand and its best alternative.

The report builds on UNEP research from 2019 that found increasing demand for sand, which saw a three-fold growth over 20 years, had caused river pollution and flooding, while also shrinking aquifers and deepening droughts. UNEP has identified solutions to the problems linked to sand mining, including the creation of legal …

Sand consumption has increased worldwide, in part due to the growth of the world´s population, increasing standards of living, and rapid urban expansion [ 1, 2 ]. Sand is used in a wide range of industries and products [ 3 ], including water filtration, plastics, and the electronics sector [ 1 ]. In fact, almost every house, dam, road, wine ...

Research is also needed into the industry's opaque supply chains, to connect the dots that link unsustainable sand mining and hydropower dams to changes in the physical integrity of rivers, rising water and climate risks, including flooding. The floods that hit the Yangtze and Huai river basins last year killed nearly 100 people and caused ...

The demand for sand for construction purposes has increased significantly in Sri Lanka in recent years, particularly due to the tsunami disaster that occurred in December 2004. This high demand led to a major increase in sand mining in many areas. Extraction of sand from river bed and river bank sand deposits has increased greatly. The current …

More than half of the annual global concrete materials were produced in China due to the rapid developing construction industry, which partly led to the shortage of river sand. However, mining rate exceeds the natural replenishment rate of river sand recently, resulting in depletion of natural river sand accumulation. The increasing …