Gujarat in India. It is the largest dam and part of the Narmada Valley Project. One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada, Sardar Sarovar Dam is the largest structure to be built. Its final configuration is the second largest concrete gravity dam after Grand Coulee Dam in the US and h...
Disaster, Dams, and Democracy: Environmental Movements and the Development of Democracy in India and the Soviet UnionForster Rothbart, AmyLahiri, Simanti
Nowadays the eco catastrophes is still going strong - in clearcutting and swamp ditching. But the second longest river in Finland - with its 150 rapids - is still alive under all the constructions, destructions of riverbeds, and hydroelectric dams. It lives also in peoples' minds and bodies...
Dams were breached, causing flooding that reached three meters in height, sweeping entire neighborhoods into the sea. Affected provinces by Tropical Storm Daniel and the subsequent flooding. Source: IFRC The flooding claimed the lives of thousands of people, including three Libyan Red Crescent volu...
Two years after laying the foundation stone for the Sardar Sarovar Dam in 1961, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru proclaimed that hydroelectric dams were the ‘new temples of India, where I worship’ (Yao 2022, 205). Charting the length of the country’s postcolonial history, this...
in 1959; what was intended to be a short trip became the beginning of a fascination with India which lasted for the rest of her life. Her photographs of the arrival in India of the Dalai Lama, who was escaping from the Chinese invasion of Tibet, made the lead in Life. In that period...
The 180MW Karkamis dam and hydroelectric plant cost $175 million and is one of the smaller dams in the South Eastern Ana Karot Hydropower Project, Pakistan The 720MW Karot hydropower project, located in Punjab, Pakistan, commenced operations in June 2022. Karuma Hydropower Plant The Karuma ...
Do they bet on domestic development–roads, bridges, schools, dams, health and other public services, workers’ rights, maternity and paternity leaves, free education as opposed to loan slavery for the poor? Or do they opt for the financing of now and future wars: military bases abroad, ...
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The local aquarium guy has assured us it has to do with the drought affecting our area and dams and not just something we did. We bought fluke tablets and after fishing out a few platy fry (all of which seemed fine) and we set up an emergency tank for them with water from the big...