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Kharadi in Yamuna Basin: when Small Hydro unleashes big destruction
Beyond Barkot (first small urban town on Yamuna river) Yamuna Valley opens into Ranwai Ghati, inhabited by typical mountain community. Kharadi is one such place located 12 KM farther from Barkot...
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NHPC’s Chutak power house submerged in Kargil: NHPC clueless two weeks after...
Power house of NHPC’s 44 MW Chutak hydropower project on Suru River in Kargil in Jammu & Kashmir was submerged on the night of June 28, 2015, two weeks later India’s premier hydropower company is...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin, July 13, 2015
HYDRO POWER UTTARAKHAND: Vishnugad-Peepalkoti Hydroelectric Project affected protested against World Bank (09 July 2015) The affected people of Vishnugad-Peepalkoti Hydroelectric Project (VPHP) have...
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Six regions of India facing prospects of crop failure and drought?
At least six of the 34 Meteorological divisions of India seems to be facing the prospects of crop failure and drought, if we look at the rainfall in these divisions in last 18 prime monsoon days from...
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Lower Penganga Project: Two decades after inception, the struggle continues…
Lower Penganga, an interstate Maharashtra-Telangana project, proposes to build a dam across River Penganga (a tributary of Godavari river) near Tadsaoli Village in Ghatanji Tehsil of Yavatmal District,...
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गोदावरी ध्वजारोहण : Hoisting Godavari’s Flag this Kumbh
How a citizens’ initiative is protecting the Godavari in Nashik 14th July was the first day of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela in Nashik (Maharashtra), on the banks of Godavari[1] River, the largest river...
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White Elephant, Black Fish
How a 15 MW project with 55 mts high dam threatens 5 villages and a fish sanctuary After an analysis of a particularly nasty dam, I felt like going back to flowing rivers. It is monsoon after all. The...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin, 20 July, 2015
HYDROPOWER NORTH-EAST ARUNACHAL PRADESH: Green clearance to Dibang Project challenged in NGT (17 July 2015) The 2880 MW Dibang Multipurpose Project will see construction of a mammoth 278-metre tall...
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Maletha; Battle won but war remains to be fought
Chronicle of an emphatic victory against crushers continued from May 2015 onwards After hosting two days long workshop on Sustainable Mountain Development (02-03 May 2015) Maletha continued its...
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We pushed large dams, not irrigation, this has to change: CM Fadnavis’...
“Maharashtra has the country’s 40% large dams, but 82% area of the state is rain fed. We have moved away from our vision of watershed and conservation…We did not think about hydrology, geology and...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin, July 27, 2015
HYDROPOWER Thermal, Hydro Power projects on the blink despite clearances by government (23 July 2015) Power sector is now bereft of capital flow. While thermal power projects might see some respite,...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin, August 03, 2015
HYDROPOWER NORTH-EAST: ARUNACHAL PRADESH: Mapithel Dam; Social organization demand decommissioning of Mapithel dam (03 Aug. 2015) Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and Naga People’s Movement for...
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Damodar Valley Dams role in W Bengal Floods – DVC Dams could have helped...
As at least 222 blocks of 13 districts of South Bengal suffered massive floods with over 51 lakh people affected and crops on 5 lakh hectares ruined, questions have once again been raised if Damodar...
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As Krishna Bhima basin farmers in Maharashtra, Karnataka, AP & Telangana face...
(Photo above: Koyna Dam) Large parts of Krishna basin spanning Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are facing massive rainfall deficits, drought like conditions and crop failures. The...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin August 10, 2015
HYDROPOWER NORTH-EAST:ASSAM: Experts warned Centre Govt against rushing through big dam projects (08 Aug. 2015) Even local BJP leaders are against Big dams in North EAST: “BJP leader and former...
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Tata Power responds on the issue of Tata dams diverting water from Drought...
On the 7th August 2015, SANDRP published a Press Release titled “As Krishna Bhima basin farmers in Maharashtra, Karnataka, AP & Telangana face drought, crop failure, Water scarcity, Maharashtra...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin, August 17, 2015
HYDROPOWER UTTARAKHAND: National Institute of Disaster Management asks Govt. to make disaster study must for Uttarakhand hydel projects (17 Aug. 2015) This is good to see, it uses almost the exact...
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Drought and Marathwada: An Oft repeated Tragedy
Marathwada, a region known more for its routine and severe droughts in the recent years, now showing the highest rainfall deficit in the country at 48%[1]. Marathwada (which coincides with Aurangabad...
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Open Letter to Chief Minister of Maharashtra: Stop Westwards diversion of...
OPEN LETTER TO HON. CHIEF MINISTER OF MAHARASHTRA: Water Diversion from Krishna basin by Koyna and Tata Dams: Maharashtra is violating Human Rights, National & State Water Policy August 18, 2015...
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Open letter to Tata Sustainability Group to stop westward diversion of Bhima...
From: Parineeta Dandekar (Pune) & Himanshu Thakkar (Delhi) South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People (SANDRP) parineeta.dandekar@gmail.com, ht.sandrp@gmail.com August 20, 2015 TO: Tata...
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