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It's All Sarovar
After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project |
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03 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| It's All Sarovar After years of controversy, India completes massive dam project One of the world's longest-running social and environmental campaigns is sleeping with the fishes as of Sunday, when the last bucket of concrete was poured on the Sardar Sarovar Dam in the Indian state of Gujarat. The project, initiated nearly 20 years ago, diverts India's fifth-largest river, the Narmada; authorities say it will provide drinking wa ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, India, news (all these topics) |
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Sardar Superstar
India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years |
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09 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sardar Superstar India dam project still hot issue after more than 20 years For citizens of India, debate over dams is soap-operatic. Take the saga of the country's still-unfinished Sardar Sarovar dam. It has everything: protests, riots, hunger strikes, and long, protracted court battles. Proponents of the $7.7 billion dam on the Narmada River claim that, when completed, it will produce megawatts upon megawatts of m ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, hydropower, India, news (all these topics) |
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Hungry for Justice
Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking |
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06 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Hungry for Justice Police arrest peaceful Indian anti-dam activist for hunger striking Demonstrations against dams in India's Narmada Valley yesterday brought the heavy hand of police, who roughed up protestors and arrested India's most famous environmentalist eight days into a hunger strike on charges of -- get this -- attempting suicide. Medha Patkar's fast started when officials began raisin ... |
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| Topics: dams, energy, environmental justice, India, news, politics (all these topics) |
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