Tannery effluent and irrigation in Kanpur--a persisting problem

Video of main wastewater drain in Jajmau irrigating agricultural fields with treated and untreated tannery effluent, August 2013

Status of dam construction in Lower Tibet and Northeast India

Supreme Court prohibits new clearances for hydropower in Uttarakhand

Alaknanda Hydro Power Co. Ltd vs. Anuj Joshi and Ors.
August 13, 2013
Supreme Court bench, Justices Radhakrishnan and Misra
http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/imgs1.aspx?filename=40641

The June 2013 Uttarakhand flood and dam muck in Srinagar

 Looking up the Ganga valley toward Devprayag

 The town of Devprayag

 The river just below the Srinagar dam (330 MW).  The muck disposal area is on the left hand side.

 Close up of the area where the debris and muck from dam building was dumped.  It washed downstream in the flood.

 Areas submerged by the flood of June 2013

 Downstream of Srinagar town, the silt carried by flood waters collected on the riverbank and on riverbank houses, schools and offices.

  In some places the silt deposition is ten feet high.

 This silt load includes the large muck and debris stored by the dam company upstream.

 Several local residents, organizations and regional groups have been demanding that the dam company dispose of the excavated muck and silt properly and remove it from the riverbank location.  Mr. Bhawani Shankar, editor of Regional Reporter magazine, and others have lodged complaints in a National Green Tribunal case and removal orders were issued in 2012 and 2013.  Still the muck was not removed until the flood waters wisked it all away and into downstream property and riverbank areas, damaging local and government property.

 The flood level is noticeable on the side of this technical college building.  The silt is over 6 feet high here..

  The flood waters carried the sediment across the street to houses on the other side of the main road to Srinagar town.

Re:Research | Kelly Alley | The June 2013 Floods in Northern India by AU Liberal Arts

Re:Research | Kelly Alley | The June 2013 Floods in Northern India by AU Liberal Arts

Vishnuprayag HEP (400 MW)--pics of before and after recent Uttarakhand flood

http://matuganga.blogspot.in/

Gazette of India: Eco Sensitive Zone Notification for Upper Bhagirathi basin

Hydroelectric Dams in Bhagirathi and Alaknanda basins of Uttarakhand with eco-sensitive zone, June 2013

May 2013 Status of Hydroelectric Dam Projects in Sikkim by AU student Ryan Hile

DRAFT HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL DATA DISSEMINATION POLICY (2013)

Government of India

Ministry of Water Resources

http://mowr.gov.in/DraftHydrometlDataDisseminationPolicy_2013.pdf

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