Is sand mining the only reason for your rivers to die? What about industrial pollution? I am a regular traveller to India and in the last 17 years the destruction that has been happened over there is quite unbelievable. Probably we don´t see much because most of us normally move around the well manicured tourism circuits. Until we read this, I didn´t even frankly know such a river existed in Kerala. But one question: What exactly are travellers doing in this initiative..they spread the word around? or donate money to charity? or bring in their expertise? That will be interesting to know. Without doubt, I can see that there is already a lot of interest on the net about River Nila. That´s a good thing. All the best to Parayil and his team.