Our planet’s inequitable ways are nowhere more palpable as in the potable water availability and sanitation standards between the developed and the developing world. A universal political and humanitarian will was very much the need of the hour – “The recognition by the UN General Assembly, in 2010, of water and sanitation as a human [...]
The undercurrent of receding water tables is nowhere more palpable than the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh – regions with the highest combined density of dams in India. Maharashtra, identified more for the farmer suicides, has the largest number of dams in the country -1845. Maharashtra is also uniquely placed in the water [...]
India is frittering away its most precious natural bounty at a chivalrous pace – Water. While increasing number of lungs in the subcontinent is sucking away big holes in our oxygen reservoir, putting it at the forefront of the eco-agenda. Water, like a distant cousin is not even on the environmental radar of our country. [...]
The magnitude of engineering effort involved in NRLP coupled with the humanitarian and ecological impact will be unmatched in its grandiosity till date. The Hydroelectric phase is the final touchdown for 30 Inter basin river links, 3000 small and large reservoirs, 12500 km of canals to link 36 Himalayan and Peninsular rivers to effect 178 [...]
It took United States Bureau for Reclamation (USBR) 19 years (1938 – 57) to construct Colorado Big Thomson which serves as the water-bank for the front range of the Rocky Mountains in northern Colorado – providing water for irrigation, and for municipal and industrial use. This IBT (Inter Basin Transfer) re-routes approximately 0.284 km3 / [...]
