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Dams
SSP falls prey to political machinations
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2003
Water warriors
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2001
A lot has been written on India's vast and ancient experience in rainwater harvesting. But no concrete effort has been made to use these traditional innovations. There is no village in India which cannot meet its drinking water needs if it adopts the kundi technology developed by the people of Rajasthan's Thar desert. The technology is very simple. One can take a piece of land and artificially slope it in a way that any water falling in this catchment area runs into a well in the centre or a side of the land.
Fact or fiction
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2001
in their blind endeavour to espouse the cause of large dams, proponents -- even so-called experts like scientists, engineers and others -- often make biased statements unsupported by proof or data. The mere mention of 'small-scale water harvesting structures' (check dams and the like) has them up in arms.
Wooing back the salmon
Issue Date: Nov 15, 1999
In a country like the us , laws once framed are supposed to be implemented. An excellent example is the Endangered Species Act ( esa ). Adopted in 1973, the law was framed with the sole intention of saving species on the brink of extinction -- saving them at all costs.
Waters of life
Issue Date: Mar 15, 1999
There was a time when forests were dense here. Today, travelling by train through district Alwar of Rajasthan, you will not see too many of them. They disappeared under the railway tracks, in the form of sleepers.
Power struggle
Issue Date: May 31, 1995
People's initiatives
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2001
STOMPING ON A DREAM
The incomplete check dam at Goudpali village in Naktideul Block of Sambalpur, Orissa, stands testimony to the insensitivity of the laws and the government to the needs of the people. The government has forced work to stop on the check dam being built by people.
Passive neighbour
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2011
India and Bangladesh breathed a sigh of relief last month after China denied it had plans to divert waters of Brahmaputra River to its arid region. At a press conference in Beijing on October 12, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong said such a project on Yarlung Zangbo River, as it is known in Tibet where its headwaters is, would affect relations with downstream countries. This statement came with an admission that the project is neither technically feasible nor environmentally sound.
But Beijing has not given up on its plans for the Brahmaputra.
S Kumars loses defamation appeal against Narmada activists
Issue Date: Oct 13, 2011
The Bombay High Court has dismissed an appeal seeking to restrain activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan from making defamatory statements against the developer of the Maheshwar hydroelectric project on the river Narmada. The appeal was filed by Shree Maheshwar Hydel Power Corp Ltd (SMHPC), a sister concern of textile company S Kumars, which is constructing the Maheshwar dam in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district.
A monsoon warning
@sunitanar Issue Date: Sep 30, 2011
As I write this my city Delhi is drowning. It started raining early this morning and within a few hours the city has come to a standstill. The television is showing scenes of traffic snarled up for hours, roads waterlogged and people and vehicles sunk deep in water and muck.
