Hydropower

IPCC releases its climate change report, alarms India of severe water shortage

Abolish manual scavenging: SC

“Posua botah”, he said. “The wind is blowing from the west now so we cannot take you to the beel to show you how we catch fish. This wind cleans the water and we won’t get fish. 'Bhatial botah', when the wind blows from the east, the water turns muddy and the fish come up to the surface to breathe. That’s the best time to fish”, he explained.

Kerala seas's rich in sand, says GSI

MoEF accepts Kerala's recommendations on Western Ghats

If you try to map where indigenous people live and where abundant biodiversity exists, you will notice a big overlap. It might seem like coincidence, but it isn't. Indigenous people have long shared and declared a strong connection to their traditional landscapes. They have had methods to protect, preserve and live harmoniously with nature.

Northeast India has been in turmoil over the last two decades or so because of unbridled hydropower development in the region. This article is an effort to understand the extent of hydropower development in the region, the multi-faceted and multi layered conflicts unleashed by this development and also explore ways of engaging with them. It is organised around three broad sections:

CWC recommends scrapping of 15 dams planned across Siang

No sale of packaged drinking water without BIS mark: FSSAI

Plans to create power corridors for each river basin on its way