Water Conflicts: Let’s Go Down To The Waterline
Political pressure has restarted work on the Maheshwar Hydel Project Dam. Baba Umar examines the mess beneath WHY IS the PMO intervening? Do Madhya Pradesh chief ministers, past and present, have personal interests in the project? After Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh decided to revoke the stop-work order on the Maheshwar Hydel Project Dam on the Narmada under pressure, uncomfortable questions are being raised. […]
India Water Wars: ‘Politics is fuelling animosity on the ground
Q&A Himanshu Thakkar, Water Activist ‘Politics is fuelling animosity on the ground’ Himanshu Thakkar is coordinator of the South Asia Network on dams, Rivers & People, edits a magazine dams, Rivers & People and has been working on waterrelated issues for more than two decades. In a candid chat with Baba Umar, Thakkar explains why Kerala has every right to built […]