The Narmada Project

Chitale, M. A.

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“…However, the dam projects have not been of much use in generating peer-reviewed and open data on the sediment load, with the help of which a more accurate and scienti c assessment of the economic life of dams on the Himalayan rivers can be made. For example, when Chitale (1997) mentioned the importance of the siltation rates in a paper related to another large dam project, no reference to any scienti c literature was made available for the reader. The crucial need for the correct understanding of the sediment process in the Himalayan rivers has been highlighted by Bandyopadhyay (1995b) in the case of the Tehri dam.…”

Section: Addressing Existing Damsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Critical Look at the Report of the World Commission on Dams in the Context of the Debate on Large Dams on the Himalayan Rivers

Bandyopadhyay¹

2002

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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In the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin in south Asia, the Himalayan rivers offer a large number of sites suitable for the construction of storage dams to collect part of their very large monsoon run-off and generate a good amount of hydropower. A series of large dams proposed by the governments are facing strong opposition on social and environmental grounds. Additional water and hydropower supplies are needed badly to ensure economic development in this basin, where poverty is a widespread problem. The report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) has been analysed in this paper to explore how much it can provide a new framework for decision making for these dams. It has been found that there are some important technical gaps in the WCD report, as a result of which it cannot help in answering some crucial technical questions raised by the debate on dams on the Himalayan rivers of the GBM basin.

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Section: Addressing Existing Damsmentioning

confidence: 99%