{"id":20078020,"date":"2020-12-11T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?post_type=video&#038;p=78020"},"modified":"2025-10-27T18:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:31:13","slug":"webinar-blood-on-the-sand-dangers-of-riverbed-mining-asia","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/webinar-blood-on-the-sand-dangers-of-riverbed-mining-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Blood on the sand \u2013 the dangers of riverbed mining in South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sand is being plundered in huge quantities from rivers in Asia. As cities in the region expand, they will need tonnes of sand, gravel and boulders as building material. Experts say the extraction of this from rivers will be a colossal environmental disaster. But writing about and reporting on sand mining in Asia is also problematic: several journalists in India in recent years have been killed or silenced by threats for writing about sand mining. In this webinar, The Third Pole\u2019s guest speakers address these among other issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speakers\">Speakers:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddharth Agarwal \u2013 Veditum India Foundation<br>Marc Goichot \u2013\u00a0WWF lead for freshwater in the Asia Pacific<br>Dipak Gyawali \u2013\u00a0former Nepali minister of water resources<br>Syeda Rizwana Hasan \u2013 Bangladeshi lawyer and environmentalist<br>Vaqar Zakaria \u2013\u00a0managing director of Hagler Bailly Pakistan<br>Zofeen T Ebrahim (chair) \u2013 former Pakistan editor at The Third Pole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-copyright-notice\">Copyright notice:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is released under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial<\/a> licence. For a copy of the video file, please contact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:multimedia@dialogue.earth\">multimedia@dialogue.earth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With sand being plundered in huge quantities from rivers in Asia, an expert panel discusses the growing problem of illegal riverbed mining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":60106457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[758,764,50039903],"tags":[502,516,566,587],"country":[],"class_list":["post-20078020","video","type-video","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-nature","category-water","tag-activism","tag-civil-society","tag-mining","tag-rivers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Webinar: Blood on the sand \u2013 dangers of riverbed mining in South Asia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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