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Prof. Madhav Gadgil says Empower the panchayats to protect environment
“At the ground level people are really interested and they want to get involved and our report if nothing else, seem to have serve the purpose of triggering such kind of an interest” said Prof. Madhav...
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Climate Change in Western Ghats: 4X4 Report and Beyond
Background “No country in the world is as vulnerable, on so many dimensions to climate change as India. We need to build our own independent and credible research capacity on these issues.” -Jairam...
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Forest Advisory Committee does not clear a dam project in Western Ghats of...
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the MoEF in its meeting on the 11th and 12th of July did not recommend Forest Clearance to Kikvi Drinking water project coming up in Nashik. The proposal entailed...
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Gangani Hydroproject on Yamuna in Uttarakhand: Small Project, Huge Flood Damages
IMPACT OF UTTARKHAND FLASH FLOODS IN MID JUNE 2013 ON LOCAL PEOPLE AT KHARADI VILLAGE (BARKOT BLOCK) IN UTTARKASHI DISTRICT RESULTING FROM A DIVERSION/ REDIRECTION OF THE YAMUNA RIVER TOWARDS POPULATED...
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People’s Advocacy for Protecting Ponds and Lakes in Bihar
MITHILA (North Bihar) can be called a land of ponds. There are 9115 ponds in 1269 villages of Darbhanga district. Area of pond varies from about 1 acre (0.3 hectare) to 150 acres (60 hectares). Some...
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MoWR’s Draft National Policy Guidelines for Water Sharing – Agenda to push...
Draft National Policy Guidelines for Water Sharing[1]: Comments[2] Copied below are the Comments sent by SANDRP to the Union Ministry of Water Resources in response to MWR’s invitation to send...
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Is THDC preparing to repeat the disaster Tehri created in Sept 2010?
Why is Tehri filled up with half the monsoon still to come? The Tehri dam reservoir on Bhagirathi river in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand is filled upto 818.4 m as on August 5, 2013, as per the...
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Uttarakhand Flood disaster: Supreme Court’s directions on Uttarakhand...
On August 13, 2013, while disposing off a bunch of petitions[i] regarding the controversial 330 MW Srinagar Hydropower Project on AlaknandaRiver in Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court bench of Justice K S...
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IWMI report on Glaciers and Snow cover in Himalayas in Changing Climate:...
International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has recently published a study named Glacier Systems and Seasonal Snow Cover in Six Major Asian River Basins: Hydrological Role under Changing Climate,...
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Damocracy: “The world is killing its rivers!!”
Damocracy: “The world is killing its rivers!!” As the film ‘Damocracy’ will be featured in the upcoming travelling International Film Festival on Water “Voices from the Waters” in Bangalore on 30th...
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Ecological value of free flowing Aghanashini for estuarine communities and...
Comparing ecological goods and services of a dammed Vs undammed river estuary is important for a number of reasons. This sort of post facto analysis is seldom done in our country. That is why a case...
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Reconstituted Expert Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects: MoEF has...
Press Statement September 7, 2013 Reconstituted Expert Appraisal Committee on River Valley Projects: MoEF has...
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“Complete Appraisal needed for Yettinahole Diversion Project” Letter to MoEF
Yettinahole Diversion Project is being planned in the Western Ghats and Eastern Plains of Karnataka, by the Karnataka Neeravari Nigam Limited (KNNL) purportedly as a drinking water supply scheme to...
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CAG Review of Flood Control measures in Bihar: When will Auditors learn about...
CAG Review of Flood Control measures in Bihar: When will the auditors learn about Ecology? Recently tabled CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) audit report on Bihar contains a performance...
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Open letter to Rahul Gandhi as he lays foundation stone of Parwan Dam: A Dam...
Reports[1] indicate that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is to lay foundation stone for the controversial Parwan Irrigation Project in Jhalawar district in Rajasthan (see the map above, taken from Down to...
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Yettinahole Diversion: An imprudent, Rs.100 Billion proposition
Background Karnataka has been mulling over diverting waters of the west flowing rivers to the east for many years. Netravathi-Hemavathy Link was proposed by the National Water Development Agency (NWDA)...
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Expert Committee following SC order of 13 Aug 13 on Uttarakhand: Needs full...
Over two months after the Supreme Court (SC) of India order of Aug 13, 2013[1], the MEF has now constituted an expert committee, see MEF order no: L-11011/14/2011-IA.I (Vol-II) dated Oct 15, 2013[2]....
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Water Sector in Maharashtra: Infrastructure & Governance
Introduction A typical irrigation project comprises of dam, reservoir, main canal, distributaries, minors, sub minors, field channels & farms. Components from reservoir to minors/sub minors are...
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Media Hype Vs Reality: India-China Water Information Sharing MoU of Oct 2013
It was pretty surprising to see the front page headline in The Times of India on Oct 24, 2013[i], claiming that an India China “MoU on Dams Among Nine Deals Signed”. The Hindu headline[ii] (p 12)...
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Small Hydro, MNRE and environmental impacts: Nero’s fiddle playing
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India recently published a report on ‘Developmental Impacts and Sustainable Governance Aspects of Renewable Energy Projects’. Around the same...
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