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Nepal's controversial Arun III dam is scheduled to come under withering scrutiny. In early February, the World Bank gave its independent inspection panel a green signal to conduct a formal
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Damming a river
Despite vehement domestic and international opposition, China has decided to go ahead with the massive new dam project on the Yangtze
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Inaugurating "corruption"
On September 3, the Argentinian president Carlos Menem inaugurated the first of the 20 turbines of the 3,200MW Yacyreta dam, which he once called country's "monument to corruption". The Yacyreta
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Frightened by change
The Punjab government's proposal to increase the height of the 531-metre Thein dam on the Ravi river by 9 m has created considerable consternation in the Jammu and Kashmir township of Basoli.
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Dam alert
The construction of the Thoubal multi purpose dam and the Tapaimukh dam in Manipur has sparked off protests
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Kulekhani dam
Kulekhani dam, Nepal's only high dam hydroelectricity project, faces the unwelcome prospect of closure in less than seven years if the present high levels of sedimentation continue. The Nepal
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Who's afraid of Dai Qing?
THE Chinese government, on the face of it: the saga of a mere mortal whose ideas on democracy and free speech exposed a state at its Draconian best begins on February 28, 1989. A book, condemning
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And justice for all?
In the search for their rightful place in things, the adversaries of the Sardar Sarovar project have taken the issue to the highest court in India
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Of dams and earthquakes
Little has been done in India to study dam-induced seismicity despite a lot of environmental heat and dust. To bridge the gap, B K Rastogi and R K Chadha of the National Geophysical Research
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How a government dams its people
Reacting to a perennial water crisis with a series of dams that will ravage the rainforests, the Thai government bashes on regardless and displeases its neighbours
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Damned dam
MALAYSIA's Pergau dam is once again in the news, much to the discomfiture of the British government. The latest blow is the British High Court's green signal to the World Development Movement -- a
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Lifted into prosperity
Community lift irrigation management systems have ushered in a new era in Shankerpura
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The margins of development
FOR sheer numbers, the coming together last fortnight of the dam-affected people of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan at Deoli in the Tonk district of the last named state was a small affair, but
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Dam dooms park
A PROPOSED dam in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, has raised a storm of protest, reports Dewi Sartika. The hydro-electric project is to be sited at Lore Lindu National Park, in Donggala Regency, about
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No trespassers
Pro-Narmada dam activists in Gujarat have succeeded in forcing a fact finding team appointed by Union ministry of environment and forest (MEF) to put off its visit to the dam site. The NBA felt that
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The closing of the gates
A controversy boiled over when the construction sluices were closed abruptly and affected scores of people
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Dam in trouble
NEPALESE environmentalists have taken the Arun-III hydroelectric dam issue to court, even as the World Bank is expected to approve a loan of about $750 million for the project. Negotiations
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Fight over height continues
Another tug-of-war has begun over the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam with Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh requesting the Gujarat government to lower it and Union water resources
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A death blow?
Will the death of Gujarat chief minister Chimanbhai Patel affect the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project? Opponents of the dam feel that without Patel, who expired on February 17 following a
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Irangate replay across the Atlantic
A controversy is brewing in Britain over the linking of development aid to an arms deal