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Kinnaur in crisis; Sheer Negligence in hydro projects claiming lives. Who is...
Above: Entirely destabilised house next to 100 MW Sorang HEP transmission lines Photo: Sumit Mahar Immediate Press Statement from Himdhara 02/12/15 In the last two weeks a half a dozen lives have been...
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COP21: Climate Initiatives Must Not Include Large Hydropower Projects- NGOs
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP), Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), International Rivers, South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People (SANDRP) December 3, 2015 In a...
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CHENNAI FLOODS: Cities today, countryside tomorrow?
Above: Chennai International Airport & the Adyar river GUEST BLOG by: Manoj Misra (yamunajiye@gmail.com) Chennai is going through the same hell today that Mumbai did in July 2005, Surat in August...
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Dams, Rivers & People News Bulletin 07 Dec. 2015 (Dams sap Earth’s water,...
Two new studies show that dam not only significantly increase evapo-transpiration but also worsen arsenic problem in groundwater. In the first study done by Stockholm University in Sweden researchers...
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DRP News Bulletin 14 Dec. 2015 (Your City can be Next Chennai?)
Our cities with their high population density and poor civic standards are vulnerable to the domino effect that can be set off by freak weather it happened in Mumbai in 2005. Last year, it was...
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DRP News Bulletin 21 Dec. 2015 (100 people have a narrow escape as Ganga...
100 people have a narrow escape as Ganga level rises after sudden release from Tehri Dam More than a 100 people who were attending a religious discourse had a narrow escape when the water level rose...
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DRP News Bulletin 28 Dec. 2015 (Farmers field school in Jharkhand shows the...
AGRICULTURE Farmers field school in Jharkhand shows the way in integrated farming The School has taught farmers how to use waste from their farms as inputs in their farming system. Other organic...
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Four Boats at a River Crossing along Ganga
Above: A fisherman crosses the river with his boat. Photo: © Sameer Kumar/VBREC. -Nachiket Kelkar (rainmaker.nsk@gmail.com) It was a pleasant November afternoon when we were travelling down the Ganga...
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India’s Free Flowing Frontier Part I: Dibang at Nizamghat
What does it mean when landscapes, riverscapes, ways of life are altered forever? When a mighty, flowing river is plugged and made to stop, flow in tunnel and released as per our whims? For most of us,...
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SANDRP Blog Annual Report for Year 2015
WordPress has created this annual report for SANDRP blog, see: https://sandrp.wordpress.com/2015/annual-report/ There were 148 blogs till Dec 29 on SANDRP blog this year, over 240 000 views and...
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GROUND WATER CRISIS DEEPENED IN INDIA IN 2015
Groundwater issues made news repeatedly in the year 2015. The year saw a 14 per cent deficit in southwest monsoon increasing the dependence on ground water for agricultural, industrial and domestic...
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Jhulelal or Zindapir: River Saints, fish and flows of the Indus
Above: Zindapir Shrine at Sukkur Photo from: British Library Perhaps we all have our pet projects which we wish would go on forever. I have been working on a Primer on Riverine Fisheries of South Asia...
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Happy Waste Free Yamuna!
In new year 2016, State Government of Uttarakhand must act against burgeoning amount of solid and liquid waste being put in Yamuna River in its home land. River Yamuna appears flowing pollution and...
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DRP News Bulletin 04 Jan. 2016 (Rivers are soul of India: PM Narendra Mondi)
Rivers are soul of India: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Excerpts From text of PM’s inaugural address at 103rd session of Indian Science Congress, Mysuru Rivers have played as important a role in human...
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Hydropower projects commissioned in 2015 in India: What do they tell us?
ABOVE: Rangit River in Sikkim Downstream of Jorethang Loop Hydropower Project (Photo: Mona Chettri) Indian government continues to have very ambitious hydropower targets, even though all the evidence...
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Hydropower projects in India: Important 2015 Developments
Above: Penstock burst of Sorang Hydropower Project in Himachal Pradesh (Photo: Himdhara) Indian government continues to have very ambitious hydropower targets, even though all the evidence suggests why...
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DRP News Bulletin 11 Jan. 2016 (Punjab Villagers oppose Dam on Ghaggar River)
86 Villages rise in protest against dam on Ghaggar A dam is proposed to be constructed on the Ghaggar, near Banur, at a cost of Rs 75 crore. An agreement was signed between representatives of various...
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HIMACHAL PRADESH HYDROPOWER PROJECTS IN 2015
Himachal Pradesh in Northern India is foremost among Indian states in pushing large hydropower projects. It has operating hydropower projects with total installed capacity of 7970 MW, under...
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Open Letter to J&KSPCB: Cancel Public Hearings for Sawalkote HEP for violations
Above: Title page of Sawalkote EIA Executive Summary January 14, 2016 TO: J&K State Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhawan, Forest Complex, Gladni, Narwal, transport Nagar, Jammu (J&K)...
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MWRRA orders release of less than 3 TMC water for Ujani Dam: Too Little, Too...
Above: Water released from Bhama Askhed Dam for Ujani Dam, April 2013 Photo:Author Today (14th January 2016) Maharashtra’s Marathi AgroDaily announces[i]: “ 3 TMC Water will be released from Bhama...
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