The Dams, Rivers and People issue for Oct-Nov 2009 is out. The lead story takes a critical look at this year's estimate for agricultural output growth of -2% and suggests that it could be significantly lower than that.
Other stories include:
- Injustice to dam-displaced adivasis of the Malay Dam in Palamu of Jharkhand
- The decision to evict people living on the Dal Lake in Srinagar from their homes and livelihoods on the lake, in order to clean up the lake
- Sarandha reviews the book "Water and the Laws in India", edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer
- Parineeta Dandekar reviews the book "Water, Ecosystems and Society" by Jayanta Bandhopadhyay
- Rahul Banerjee looks at the Man river basin and Man Dam in MP and finds that there is neither water nor governance.
- SANDRP critiques the recent paper released by Jairam Ramesh which disputes conventional thinking about retreating Himalayan glaciers.
The newsletter news roundup of happenings in the river and dams arena includes Updates on the Devsari Hydro project, Reoli Dugli project, and projects in Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh.
Click Here to read the newsletter.
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