Samir Mehta

Taking action in India on downstream impact of dams - Report of the workshop held by International Rivers and Save Western Ghats Movement at Jog Falls, Karnataka in May 2011

India is on a large-dam building spree, with more than 5,100 large dams already blocking almost all of its important rivers, and more to come.

Parineeta Dandekar

Posted on 14 Jun, 2011 05:17 PM

Jog falls in Western Ghats

These dams have had a profound negative impact on communities and ecology upstream and downstream. While promised benefits of these dams (irrigation, hydro-power or flood control) have been overstated, numerous interrelated and complex negative impacts have simply not been studied or documented. Nonetheless, communities and ecosystems continue paying huge prices of these impacts.

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