The team of authors does not include anyone from affected communities, indigenous people, non-government organisations, conservation groups or anyone else known to be critique of the hydropower projects. The paper opens with a statement from the International Hydropower Association.| SANDRP
As recent reports on SANDRP website by Parineeta Dandekar shows, the Himalayan areas are vulnerable to several kinds of disasters, made worse by climate change and mindless infrastructure developme…| SANDRP
The BBMB also publicly cited the need to follow the technical requirements based on rule curve while advocating water release for Haryana. This is also strange in early May when dam is at the lowes…| SANDRP
Undoubtedly, the government is sidelining the critical issues of environmental flows and stopping pollution in Yamuna and prioritizing commercialization of river floodplain. In fact, the Sabarmati …| SANDRP
The discussion is still about source of funds and NDSA chairman has asked AP to initiate some work using AP’s own funds and get the expenses reimbursed afterwards. This is hardly confidence inspiri…| SANDRP
It reminds one of the Supreme Court remarks when the apex court said that the dam safety authorities at the Centre seemed to be in slumber, though it was in context of another project. The NDSA exp…| SANDRP
Many individual groups, experts and even the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has rightly demanded to make such an assessment to decide about the decommissioning of the dam. This is because there …| SANDRP
On a related subject the publication of research about greening of Thar in recent decades partly due to increased rainfall and partly due to increased groundwater use also raises question as to why…| SANDRP
Our study earlier showed that Mumbai does not need any additional dam including Gargai if it utilizes available local resources including rainfall, reuse of treated sewage, desalinization, demand s…| SANDRP
As far as wetlands protection in India is concerned, the events here have a mix of tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, among other genres. It will be interesting to see where this sequence of events ends…| SANDRP
There is a lot one can learn from Kham River Revival as a model if we want to. The key is to first understand the problem, create a plan to address various components of the issue, going systematic…| SANDRP
In Jammu & Kashmir, the impressive activism and advocacy work of Dr. Raja Muzaffar Bhat in safeguarding the Himalayan streams from mechanized and unsustainable mineral mining is going on. The r…| SANDRP
The questions raised range from basic justifiability of the project, problematic decision-making process at each stage of the project violating the statutory processes, the severe long term adverse…| SANDRP
It is good to see that both BJP and Congress’s Sikkim state units have opposed the clearance, in addition to the opposition from Affected Citizens of Teesta and others. Even editorials in more than…| SANDRP
In fact, sewage is a resource and can provide multiple benefits if treated properly. The STP treated water can be used for secondary purposes. The city also needs to seriously work on harvesting ra…| SANDRP
In scathing criticism of the government, the insider also said that for two decades Gujarat has NOT been releasing the annual figures of area irrigated in different taluka/s districts using Narmada…| SANDRP
Even in cases like the 1500 MW Warasgaon Warangi PSP in Western Ghats Maharashtra, when the project is asked to reapply due to massive increase in forest land and when details letters are sent to E…| SANDRP
In case of Shanan Hydropower project of Punjab govt in Himachal Pradesh, the HP High Court has issued notices to Punjab and HP authorities to reply regarding release of Silt laden water from the pr…| SANDRP
However, the CGWB in its second report has claimed that total annual groundwater recharge has increased (15 billion cubic meters or BCM) substantially, and extraction has declined (3 BCM) in 2024 f…| SANDRP
This proposed, one of the largest capacity hydropower projects in the world has little merit, considering the inherent disaster potential of the biodiversity rich area, climate change induced accel…| SANDRP
The Buddha nala pollution issue is decades long, but the current movement started about six months back. It is also heartening to know that even affected people from downstream, from Rajasthan have…| SANDRP
There is no credible evidence or are not credible figures proving that Ken has surplus water and Betwa is deficit. The project will actually facilitate export of water from drought prone Bundelkhan…| SANDRP
The problems faced by people along the Duhnoi River along Assam Meghalaya border are typical of the problems faced by millions all over the country, the manifestations and their intensity may be so…| SANDRP
This week there is some interesting news about a number of Urban rivers including Pune Rivers, Musi (Hyderabad), Chennai Rivers, Budha Dariya (Ludhiana), Gomti (Lucknow). All the news underlines so…| SANDRP
An interesting study reported this week reveals Big Dams are costly gambles and explains why this is so. In fact, the explanations go on to reveal that this is by design, the costs are systematical…| SANDRP
It is interesting to see Andhra Pradesh CM hinting at bringing HYDRAA like enforcement institution to remove encroachments on Budameru and other water bodies. Considering the nature of his politics…| SANDRP
(Feature Image: File photo of Yettinahole Project. Source: Daijiworld) The Yettinahole project has seen protests and question marks right from the time when the project was proposed, none of them h…| SANDRP
The controversial Ken-Betwa Interlinking project is undergoing several changes being proposed by central and state governments of UP and MP. Firstly, there are plans to build two new barrages at Pa…| SANDRP
Hydra has so far acted upon 166 encroachments and recovered 43.54 acres of land since its inception. The most number of encroachments – 54 – were located on the banks of the Chintal cheruvu (lake) …| SANDRP