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- Man-made reasons for Uttarakhand disaster 1
- Children’s health affected by marketing of unhealthy foods
- Rush of hydropower projects on Ganga, tributaries
- Himalayan states also face risk of glacial lake outburst floods
- Wind farm threat to forests
- What caused the landslides in Uttaranchal?
- Science meets fiction 6
- Capturing the monsoons 2
- Dhari Devi idol goes missing 2
- Rice that binds 2
- Don’t just cash in on tigers 18
- Pedestrian questions 14
- Weather dice is loaded 13
- “Come elections, our forests are looted” 10
- Odisha's waterman 6
- Kudankulam meltdown 5
- Gutter will sparkle 4
- Contaminating millets 4
- Gujarat set to develop India’s first tidal energy plant 4
- Risk of corruption clouds Andhra Pradesh solar bids 4
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Dams
Ganga's moment
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2008
The orphan of development
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
The river is almost totally absent in modern day discourse
Rift valley
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
Sikkim's Lepcha community is divided into pro- and anti-dam groups
The once close-knit Lepcha community in North Sikkim is being torn apart over the issue of hydel projects on the Teesta and its tributaries. The rift within this Himalayan tribe has worsened in the wake of the scrapping of four projects in the Lepcha Protected Area of Dzongu.
Interviewee:
Pawan Kumar Chamling
Double trouble in Bundelkhand
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
The region's topography and neglect of traditional tanks means droughts turn into floods
Bundelkahand's five-year drought is well-known, so people were really surprised when they heard the news about floods in Uttar Pradesh's Banda district in June. True, the rains came early, but does it take only a week's rain to turn drought into floods?
The reasons why drought could turn so soon into flood are mainly four.
Dam near reserve
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2008
CEC sends notice to Karnataka
A SUPREME Court-appointed committee has asked the Karnataka government to clarify whether the Kalsa-Bhandura irrigation project was violating forest and wildlife laws.
The Central Empowered Commit tee, appointed to monitor forest related cases, recently issued a notice to the Karnataka government, following a petition filed by a Belgaum-based ngo.
The right level
Issue Date: Oct 31, 2008
Orissa's floods made worse by full tank at Hirakud dam
Course correction
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2008
Can Bihar avert another Kosi disaster?
Living made difficult
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose
On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under
it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days. "This happened because of road
construction. People go about blasting mindlessly, without realizing that the mountain might not be able to support the structures above," said
A benign dam
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
That reduces malaria incidence
Himalayan blunder
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2008
Dam makers rake in the moolah irrespective of the amount of electricity projects generate
TWO issues back this magazine had done a detailed analysis of the wind energy sector in the country. We told you how wind turbines were being installed in increasing numbers, but performed at a dismal level and generated electricity far lesser than their potential. The policy gave incentive only to installation and very little to actual generation. In this issue we analyze the business of dams: the hydroelectricity sector. And the findings are, if anything, even more shocking.
