{
  "id": 522806,
  "title": "The sediment story: A journey that impacts India's rivers and surrounding landscapes",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/the-sediment-story-a-journey-that-impacts-indias-rivers-and",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-10T22:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-sediment-story-journey-impacts-india.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Every monsoon, India's rivers turn brown. To most of us, that color simply means muddy water. But hidden within it is the material that builds fertile floodplains, creates river islands, nourishes deltas and even shapes coastlines: sediment.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}