National Register of Large (Specified) Dams is a compilation of the specified dams in the country prepared as per information received from the State Government /Authority concerned. As embark on a new
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
The United Front government s agreement on the contentious issue regarding the Sardar Sarovar dam, callously ignored the interests of the people of the Narmada valley
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
in order to overcome the problem of siltation and decreasing water storage capacity, the Central Water Commis sion (cwc) is examining a proposal to increase the height of the Tungabhadra dam in
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
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.
CHINA's hopes of completing the largest hydroelectric project in history, received a temporary setback when the Export- Import Bank of the us refused to help finance the Three Gorges
A letter of protest Was written on May 9, to the World Bank (W8) president James Wolfensohn, by the International Rivers Network and the human rights group Witness for Peace, calling for an
The proposed Nam Thuen II hydroelectric dam could trigger off ecological disaster in the Nakai plateau in central Laos. Largescale logging is going on to clear the 447 sq km area for a
Human endeavours like the building of dams are now being held responsible for the planet spinning a wee bit faster. Benjamin Chao, a geophysicistat NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
