{"id":5784,"date":"2017-03-15T09:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cienciagandia.webs.upv.es\/en\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T08:51:12","slug":"the-serpis-river-is-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cienciagandia.webs.upv.es\/en\/2017\/03\/the-serpis-river-is-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Serpis River Is Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may wonder why we celebrate World Rivers Day<\/strong>: aren’t our rivers nearly dead? Well here’s the news: the Serpis is alive<\/strong>. This discovery was made after verifying the state of the river after the recent swells.
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\nA few days ago, we conducted a field study in the Serpis river accompanied by a group of enthusiastic students from the Bachelor’s Degree of Environmental Sciences <\/a><\/strong>at the UPV Gandia. We were able to verify the degree to which the heavy floods have transformed and rejuvenated<\/strong> the banks and riverbeds.\u00a0Large amounts of reeds, an invasive species being controlled or eliminated, had disappeared due to the force of water, and a great deal of grit and gravel had been transported naturally, once again forming some river beaches<\/strong>.The river appears to be going back its previous condition decades ago when our grandparents and great grandparents knew it. We can remember it here in the following report by the Center for Rural Development <\/a>(CDR La Safor):<\/p>\n