Supreme Court allows canal work

Overrules high court on Narmada irrigation projects

Yours unilaterally

Nepal suffers as India builds dykes along a trans-border river without informing the neighbour

The paddy compulsion

War continues between Karnataka, Tamil Nadu farmers over Cauvery water for cultivation

Dam at fault

Maharashtra builds dam in quake zone without permission. High Court refuses stay

Barrages spur protests

Odisha wants to dam surplus water downstream of Hirakud dam. But where’s the surplus?  

Pindar’s last gush

Dam proposed on the last unrestricted tributary of Alaknanda stirs valley residents

Drowning villages for 8 paise

The Par-Tapi Narmada Link project will earn 8 paise on a rupee

US policy shift to hit dam funding

Shift in focus from hydropower to new renewables may impact World Bank funds for big dams

Under threat

A proposed dam is set to change the landscape in the Pindar ghati--host to the last free flowing tributary of the Alaknanda. Bharat Lal Seth …

NTPC dam rattles local elections

Officials subverted elections to the forest council that opposed dam, allege villagers

NHPC cornered over Subansiri

Reports pick apart NHPC’s hydel project in Assam, call for design overhaul

Dibang dam on hold

Andhra government should immediately compensate tribals displaced by Polavaram project

Scientific assessment of ecosystem services should be carried out for quantifying the compensation

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

Living made difficult

News 360° - Briefs

Drowned in power

Hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh sell electricity at a loss due to lack of buyers

Desperate for dam

Government skews facts to plan a project in Rajasthan that will displace 100,000 people

Risks yours, profits mine

To flow or not to flow

Science and Technology - Briefs

A pause on hydropower

A recent report could check expansion of hydro projects in Himachal Pradesh

‘MoEF violated Supreme Court order’

Ministry’s own panel says it should not have given clearances to two Uttarakhand projects

Rs 1,86,000 cr illusion

Andhra Pradesh’s Jalayagnam irrigation scheme unviable, contract-driven, says CAG draft report

Polavaram fraud

The Polavaram dam on the Godavari could displace 400,000 people and submerge nearly 4,000 hectares of forestland. Most of the people threatened …