Order of National Green Tribunal (Central Zone Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Kamlesh Roj Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 21/01/2025. The issue raised in the application are protection of historical Hingonia Dam from the encroachment from the local residence violating the environmental norms and damaging the area …
even as the Laotian government held a public discussion on the merits of a proposed us $1.5-billion dam in end-January, logging trucks roared through the village of Nakai Neua at the project site. The Nakai plateau in central Laos, home to 23 poor ethnic villages spread over an area of …
A much sought-after closed-door agreement was signed by India and Nepal on the massive Saptakoshi Multipurpose project on January 23, to initiate a joint detailed project report (DPR) study. But following the agreement, Nepal's opposition and media are flaying the government for not having taken them into confidence. Ambiguity surrounds …
Egypt has made up its mind to arrest the onslaught of desertification. A controversial scheme to make the country's deserts bloom has found favour with it, when recently in an international tender, the country announced its plan to build the world's largest pumping station. The station will pump 300 cu …
the Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 65,000 sq km may not die after all ( Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 12). Kazakh fisherfolk believe that a 16-km-long dam built across Aral Sea, mainly separating Aral Sea Minor (northern part of the Sea) …
The Visthapit Mukti Vahini (VMV) had its origins in protests against the adverse environmental and social impact of the Ichha and Chandil dams in Bihar, in 1978. The latest attack mounted on its members has been the one on Arvind Anjum because of his role in opposing the Subarnarekha Multipurpose …
in a study titled, The World Bank's ( wb ) experience with large dams: a preliminary review of impacts dated September 1996, the Operations Evaluation Department ( oed ) of the wb has concluded from a desk assessment of 50 Bank-financed large dams that the wb should continue to conditionally …
a writ petition has been filed in Nepal's Supreme Court against the ratification of the controversial Mahakali treaty which was approved by the joint session of the Nepalese Parliament in September this year. Five individuals including lawyers and journalists have jointly filed the petition urging the court to invalidate the …
As part of the Indo-Nepal Mahakali Integrated Development Treaty, signed on February 12, 1996 in New Delhi, the 315 m-high Pancheshwar dam is to be constructed over the Mahakali river in Nepal. The dam is expected to produce over 6,480 MW of power and cost US $12 billion, which the …
The controversial Nam Theun ii hydro dam project has run into trouble. The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand ( egat ) has cancelled plans to purchase electricity from the dam. The cancellation has dealt a final blow to the dam's developers, who have poured us $30 million into the project …
A complaint has been filed with the World Bank (wb) and the Inter-American Development Bank (idb) by affected Paraguayan dam victims who allege that the banks have violated their policies in funding the massive Yacyreta dam built over the Parana river. The complaint was filed by Sobrevivencia
Six years after their land and homes were submerged by the Bargi dam, residents of 162 villages in Seoni, Mandla and Jabalpur districts of the upper Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh still await rehabilitation. After the first phase of the people's struggle, the state government had handed over the Bargi …
The Alamatti controversy is only one among the many continuing river disputes, which more than anything else, underscore the failure of tribunals as dispute resolving mechanisms. Here is a list of some such lingering irritants; international river water disputes that India has with Nepal and Bangladesh have not been taken …
After months of dispute between the World Bank (wb) and the government over the funding of the controversial us $1.2 billion Nam Thuen ii dam, both parties have evolved a consensus (Down To Earth, Vol 5, No 2). Laos and the wb have agreed to revise the terms of reference …
the louder you shout and the more noise you make, the greater is your chance of succeeding: this seems to be the mantra of both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh (ap) politicians on the contentious issue of the Alamatti dam (over the Krishna river in Karnataka). The dam is part of …
hirakud, one of the largest and the oldest dams in the country, has developed cracks. Its leaking walls may fall apart any time and sweep away the coastal delta of Puri and Cuttack. The Orissa government, however, is unfazed about the eventuality saying that there is "nothing to be alarmed …
on july 16, the chief ministers of the four states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan agreed in a meeting called by the Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda that the "construction of Sardar Sarovar Dam may proceed, limiting the full reservoir level (frl) to 436 feet (ft) at …
The controversy over Bakun dam is getting murkier. The Malaysian government has decided to appeal a High Court order that said that the proposed dam did not meet environmental laws of the land (Down To Earth, Vol 5, No 4). The ruling threatens to hold up construction of the us …
in order to overcome the problem of siltation and decreasing water storage capacity, the Central Water Commission (cwc) is examining a proposal to increase the height of the Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka. The proposal is on for quite some time and assumes greater significance as the farmers of Kurnool, Anantapur …
A RECENT High Court ruling has put the breaks on the construction of the controversial Bakun dam. The country's High Court ruled on June 19 that the us $5.5 billion dam violated environmental laws of the land. The suit was filed by three Sarawak longhouse tribals. The court upheld the …
WHERE dams are concerned, the most ridiculous arguments are put forward by their proponents. The most expensive dam in the US history is proposed to be built on the American river in California. The Auburn dam is awaiting nod from the Congress. The dam is supposedly being built to protect …
