Orissa BJP seeks details of threat from Andhra dam
2010-09-21 15:20:00
Bhubaneswar, Sep 21 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists Tuesday staged a rally in Orissa demanding details of possible damage due to the Polavaram dam project on the Godavari river in Andhra Pradesh, recently approved by the central government.
Carrying posters and banners, activists of the party's youth unit marched in Bhubaneswar from their office near Ram Mandir square to Raj Bhavan, the official residence of Governor M.C. Bhandare, police said.
They shouted slogans against the state government led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and the central government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a police official said.
'Arjun Sethi, a leader of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was the union minister in charge of central water resources from 2000-04 and he should have scrapped the project at that time. Now the same BJD is opposing the project but only after the centre scrapped the mining project of Vedanta,' a protest leader said.
'Both the state and central governments have not done any assessment about the possible damage the project will cause in Orissa,' former state BJP president Suresh Pujari said.
'The state and central governments should come out with a white paper on the project detailing the possible damage,' he said.
'If the government continues with the project, we will take this agitation to other parts of the state,' he said.
According to the Andhra Pradesh government, the Rs.10,150-crore Polavaram irrigation project will provide drinking water to 2.85 million people, produce 960 MW of power and give industry 23,500 million cubic feet of water.
The union environment and forests ministry gave the final clearance in July for diversion of 3,731.07 hectares of forest land for the project on the condition that no submergence of forest land should take place in Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
The project, first envisioned by the British rulers in 1941 has, however, been facing opposition for decades from local residents who fear displacement, a concern shared by residents in Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Saturday, November 17, 2007
All of the major water users from our basin
Seeing this helps to explain why so much water is released from Lanier each day. The water from there needs to feed all of those places and still be at 5,000 cfs (3.2 billion gallons/day) when it is in Florida.
However, there are many small creeks and rivers that feed into the river to help reach the 5,000 cfs flow. The problem is that all of those rivers are running below normal, which means they have to drain even more water from Lanier to help make up for it.
The 16% reduction that may or may not happen starting today would be a reduction in that 5,000 cfs mandate, lowering it 4200 cfs. This would mean that the releases from Lanier could be reduced a bit, though they might see a slow increase after that to compensate for less and less help from the other rivers feeding into the Chattahoochee.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Delaware River plan to remain unchanged
Tuesday, September 25, 2007By BRUCE A. SCRUTON
WEST TRENTON — Faced with an end-of-the-month deadline, the Delaware River Basin Commission will likely vote to continue with a water management plan which everybody seems to agree isn't working, but which the parties apparently can't agree on how to change.
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Satyagraha For The Teesta (Tehelka, 29 September 2007)
Protestors from across Sikkim are on hunger strike against projects on the river. NEERAJ VAGHOLIKAR reports
The Sikkim government's plans to expedite a major plumbing exercise -- involving 26 large hydroelectric projects in the ecologically and culturally sensitive Teesta river basin -- is meeting with resistance. Protestors have joined together in an organisation called the Affected Citizens of Teesta (ACT); they have been on satyagraha against these plans since June 20. The ongoing protests are focused on projects proposed in North Sikkim, particularly in Dzongu, the holy land and exclusive reserve of the Lepcha tribe. The satyagraha has been characterised by a prominent youth presence; another important feature was the support lent by the state's Buddhist monks, who have been offering prayers to protect the satyagrahis and the sacred landscape threatened with desecration.
While Sikkim has seen dam-related protests before, there have never been any on this scale. The 1990s saw the construction of the 60MW Rangit project, clearances for the 510MW Teesta V project (currently under construction) and the scrapping of the Rathong Chu project following protests about its impact on a sacred landscape. But in the last three years, the state government has signed MOUs for no less than 26 large hydroelectric projects in the state.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
UK. Environment Agency Wales invites you to have your say on river systems in Wales
Friday, 31 August 2007
Friday, 31 August 2007
Environment Agency Wales is inviting people to have their say about the best ways to tackle major water environment issues across Wales to protect and improve rivers, lakes, ground and coastal waters.
Everyone is invited to give their opinion on the best ways to tackle issues such as pollution from urban and rural areas. Each River Basin District in Wales - the Dee, the Severn and Western Wales - has its own issues and can be commented upon individually.
The documents - titled River Basin Planning: Summary of Significant Water Management Issues - are an important step in creating better ways to achieve the standards of the European Water Framework Directive by 2015. Each consultation was put together by our Liaison Panels, groups of interested parties from sectors involved in the water environment.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
The coming brouhaha over the Republican River
Saturday, August 25, 2007
A while back I wrote concerning our republic type of government, differentiating it from a true democracy.
In a pure democracy, decisions are made strictly by majority vote. Merrill Ream wrote that I should mention that a republic form of government, by thinking representatives with moral backgrounds, will avoid the pure democracy's "tyranny of the majority" flaw. I think that the upwelling water fuss with Kansas makes a great illustration of that tyranny.
There is no doubt in my mind that if a statewide vote were taken to answer the question of who should pay Kansas a fine for overuse of water in the Republican River Basin the answer would be those who live in the Republican River Basin. That is us, you and me! Never mind that the fine was, or will be, generated by a compact signed in 1943 by the Nebraska Governor on behalf of all the people in the State of Nebraska.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Collaboration Between Local and Central Government ‘Key Factor’ in Meeting Global Goals on Water
On the final day of the World Water Forum in Mexico City, 2006, governments recognised the role played by local authorities in water management in the final declaration and attached the Local Government Declaration on Water as a formal outcome document. Paragraph 9: Governments ‘Recognize the importance role that parliamentarians and local authorities are playing in various countries to increase sustainable access to water and sanitation services as well as to support integrated water resource management. An efficient collaboration with and between these actors is a key factor to meet our water related challenges and goals.’ Paragraph 10: Governments ‘Note with appreciation the work of stakeholders at the regional preparatory process towards the 4th WWF as well as during the Forum itself, and take note of the documental output of the said regional preparatory stakeholder process, included as annex to this declaration. As appropriate, this output can be used as source of information for our tasks. We also thank participating parliamentarians and local authorities for their valuable views and opinions expressed during our joint working session at the Fourth World water Forum, and note of their statements included as annex to this declaration.’
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Purpose and Scope of the 2007 World Water Week in Stockholm
Living in a changing world presents both challenges and opportunities. The performance of policies and programmes in meeting challenges and capitalising on opportunities for progress will be examined during the World Water Week. Readiness to meet a turbulent future will be assessed. The contribution of all stakeholders, who should play a constructive role in governance towards sustainability, will be highlighted. Scrutinising progress on water-related development - At summits and other meetings, pledges are routinely made to improve livelihoods and alleviate the evils associated with poverty, water scarcity and resource degradation, and political and other oppression. Sadly, commitments made are not borne out in practice. In international contexts the commitments may be sanctioned by national governments, but few are legally binding. In an ambiguous formal status, ambitious and well-meaning commitments often lack ownership at the national level. The lines of responsibility necessary and the means required to fulfil commitments and implement policies to reach targets effectively are lacking. Global targets focus on specific issues, but the contexts in which problems exist tend to be overlooked. With sanitation, for instance, the cultural and social situation is paramount, but poorly understood. Similarly, conflicts between goals within and between sectors often jeopardise progress. Laudable initiatives try to address these chal-lenges, through for instance management reforms and the promotion of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Reality, however, is invariably more complex than envisaged in political rhetoric.
Friday, August 17, 2007
Story last updated at 12:36 am on 8/15/2007
MRC Meets To Discuss Issues Affecting Missouri, Mississippi River Management
The Mississippi River Commission (MRC) visited the Lewis & Clark Visitor's Center neat Yankton Tuesday to discuss issues that affect this stretch of the Missouri River and how they affect the Mississippi River and its management.
"Our goal (with this trip) is to get your interests heard," said Brigadier General Robert Crear, president of the MRC. "This is one huge river basin, and we want to get the entire basin's views on the basin so that we can develop solutions and programs that benefit the basin as a whole."
The MRC was established by Congress in 1879 with the mission to develop plans to improve the condition of the Mississippi River, foster navigation, promote commerce and prevent destructive floods.
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