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Assam’s water resources department upgraded flood warning gauges on Brahmaputra tributaries after a Silchar embankment breach last season, linking telemetry to district control rooms with four-hourly SMS thresholds for low-lying tea estates.
Odisha’s Chilika wildlife division added drone transects to this winter’s bird census after silt narrowed the new mouth at Satapada, forcing teams to count flamingo and wader flocks across shallower channels that boats cannot reach at low tide.
Village crews in the Indian Sundarbans are planting Rhizophora mangrove sprouts along cracked embankments after late-season salinity spikes pushed brackish water into fish ponds, with forest-range officers logging plots to meet state climate adaptation targets.
