Wrong turn

A plan to fortify Orissa's tanks

Secret dam

People were not consulted, officials say they don’t know about it

Ganga basin authority notified

Protests resume at Loharinag Pala

As government decides to restart Bhagirathi project

Dam in check

In an atmosphere of deepening mistrust on the India-Nepal border, Bihar farmers find it difficult to build check dam

Telangana betrays its tribals

Compromises on Polavaram; agrees to exclude villages facing submergence from new state

The last crop

Dam near reserve

Inordinate delay

Madhya Pradesh gets procedural rap

Maheshwar dam nears completion; rights of affected villagers ignored

Rivers must flow

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A dark tunnel

Twenty-nine workers were killed in a landslide at the Tehri dam. The contractor building the dam has blamed the "weak mountains" for …

Tipaimukh Dam in Manipur driving a wedge?

Imphal, Manipur's capital, came to a grinding halt on August 28, with a strike being called. Imphal's people are habituated to bandhs, and most …

Cost of irrigation 15,000 people

Promised land turns arid

Rajasthan fails to allot land to those displaced by Pong dam

Politics of irrigation

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Reservoir of corruption

How irrigation projects in Maharashtra harnessed money, not water

Grown on waste

Orissa wants stay on Polavaram

State says environment ministry’s approval overreaches apex court

907 km from parliament

In the past two months, India has revisited its most contested dam, the Sardar Sarovar Project. While people affected by it in Madhya Pradesh …

South Asia

Himalayan destruction

Study quantifies the impact of hydel projects on the ecology of the mountain range

The fish barrier

Threat to fish due to dams quantified in Mekong basin

Activists petition PM against dam

Maheshwar dam nears completion; rehabilitation too slow