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Conflicts
Channel Mandakini to its original course: GSI
Posted on 21 Jan, 2014 03:29 PMGSI report suggests channeling Mandakini river
![Uttarakhand floods (Source: The Hindu)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/uttarakhand_flash_floods.jpg?itok=oCyVmOsp)
Which way will the water flow?
Posted on 15 Jan, 2014 11:07 PMIn the 60-odd years since we began managing our own resources, we have managed to throttle and poison all our rivers, suck our groundwater resources nearly dry and shave our forests bald. This is despite a great deal of effort, time, thought and resources that have gone into this 'management'.
![Ramaswamy Iyer, former Secretary Water Resources](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/ramaswamy_iyer.jpg?itok=ma1-lOMP)
Sikkim's citizens say NO! to dams
Posted on 13 Jan, 2014 02:18 PMHydropower is considered as 'green' power and the Sikkim Government's policy has been to synchronize development imperatives with conscious efforts on environment sustainability. This paper presents the results of a survey carried out among communities living along a 54-km long project affected stretch of the Teesta river.
![Dams intensify the impact of earthquakes](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/sikkimdam_from_sikkimonlineinfo.jpg?itok=xv3-wQj4)
Separated by a spring
Posted on 06 Jan, 2014 10:02 AMNumerous small villages dot the Himalayas. These villages obtain water from springs that are in their turn supplied by small aquifers. Due to the complex folded nature of the rocks that make up the mountains, the area from which these aquifers receive their water may be at some distance away from the actual spring.
![Bedu Naula, in Uttarakhand](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/294.jpg?itok=nQz6szN6)
The indefinite fast continues
Posted on 06 Jan, 2014 08:50 AMNoted activist Shashi Shekhar has been on an indefinite fast since December 10th, protesting the construction of embankments on the Jheem Jamura river. These rivers are a part of the Adhwara Samuh rivers in North Bihar, which originate from the foothills of Nepal.
![Activist Shashi Shekhar (Source: Water-Vagabond)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/shashi.png?itok=Cq034bu7)
Applications invited for 'sandwich' PhD position on 'Climate Policy, Conflicts and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia', SaciWATERs
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Bihar villagers against asbestos plant
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 08:40 PM10,000 Bihar villagers file petition against asbestos plant
![Asbestos inflammation (Source: Adam Cohn, Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/asbestos.jpg?itok=a_qW1nQg)
Yamuna Nama: a book review
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 05:51 PMThe Yamuna Manifesto -or Yamuna Nama- is a bilingual book with passages in both Hindi and English, published as part of the Yamuna Elbe project. In five deceptively short sections, the book takes us from the birth to the river to its future.
![Yamuna river (Source: www.pilgrimageindia.net)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/yamuna-manifesto_1.jpg?itok=4DIn58eM)
1 dam, 2 projects, many fools?
Posted on 22 Dec, 2013 05:49 PMI was looking for Greenko’s 24.75 MW Perla Mini Hydel Project at Perla village near Bantwal, Mangalore. One would think that you wouldn't really have to search for a hydel project site given its size and scale but the villagers at Perla were puzzled when I asked them to take me there as the Project Design Document had noted the project location as Perla village.
![AMR dam across Netravathi (Source: Jerry Pinto)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/pic1_jerrypinto_panaramio_0.jpg?itok=N9IsWZNJ)
Drilling the hills to devastation
Posted on 08 Dec, 2013 10:50 PMClear blue skies, natural springs and glacial peaks-tranquility. Falling stones, landslides and debris-chaos! Kinnaur, located on the northeastern side of Himachal Pradesh, lets you experience both. It falls in seismic zones IV and V, which means it runs the the risk of damaging and destructive earthquakes.
![100 MW Tidong-I project, Kinnaur HP](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/dsc02191.jpg?itok=nFhtGskR)