Category: CA Dams

According to the Study conducted by UN University Institute on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) – UN’s think tank on water, 3,700 Indian dams will lose 26% of their total storage by 2050 due to accumulation of sediments.

Relevance: The World Bank has appointed a “neutral expert” and a chairman of the Court of Arbitration…

Recently, India and Nepal have agreed to take forward the Sapta Kosi high dam project through further studies.

The Madhya Pradesh government has canceled all contracts with Maheshwar Hydroelectric Project almost three decades after it agreed to purchase power from it.

Shutters of the Cheruthoni dam of the Idukki reservoir and Mullaperiyar dam were opened to release water to the Periyar River due to heavy rains.

The Second Meeting of Steering Committee of Ken-Betwa Link Project (SC-KBLP) was held recently.

Torrential rain in the Western Ghats in Karnataka has led to an increase in the rate of inflow in Krishnaraja Sagar and Tungabhadra dams.

The Polavaram irrigation project across the River Godavari in Andhra Pradesh has been receiving huge inflows of flood waters owing to heavy rain in Maharashtra in the past few days.