Water Wars: First the dams. Then the damned canals
March 12, 2011, Issue 10 Volume 8 Defying court orders, the network of canals in the Narmada basin is destroying small farms that never needed the water, reports Baba Umar BHILALA TRIBALS often assemble next to what used to be their village, Atursumba of Khargaon district in southeast Madhya Pradesh. Dwarfing them is a 100-feet-wide canal laid high above the […]
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 […]