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Multi river valley projectIndependence, India has been engrossed in projected

economic activities to attain self-sufficiency and

improve the standard of living of its citizens.

Among various actions followed for this intention,dealing with water resources has been one of the

primary aims.


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Their source is one and they attend

to similar purposes.

The Damodar River Valley

project was the first of its kind,

adopted by free India.


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Flood and famine are two of the

major crisis faced in this countryand as a result, they are being

progressively handled in astructured fashion.Surface and ground water resourcesare looked at as complementary toeach other.


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Aspects..

The project will inundate thousands of acres of forests andagricultural land, a devastating blow to human lives andbiodiversity.

The sheer size of the project, the Sardar Sarovar dam couldbring about some of the worst environmental destructionin India.


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If completed, several hundred square miles of forest woulddisappear, destroying precious habitat for tigers, panthers,sloth bear, barking deer, several rare tree species, andhundred of plants with medicinal potential.Local and tribal people benefit from the forest by harvestingfruits and nuts, which provide an important supplement totheir diet.


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The impact of moving hundreds of thousands of people to otherlands will also have a serious effect on the ecology of the area ofrelocation, creating a serious environmental dilemma.Threatened with the submergence of their villages, their land, andtheir forests, thousands of valley residents began to protest against theconstruction of the Sardar Sarovar and other large dams.


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Projects labled as multipurposegenerally refer to a water retention system which is used toa) generate electricityb) act to prevent water shed floodingc) provide irrigationd) Naviagatione) habitat improvementf) improve fishery populations.


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These projects also generally displace hundreds of notmillions of people from very fertile land thus reducing the

productivity of these people. They take away their livelihood and their homes of manygenerations.


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The benefits out weigh the cost. Most countriesbuilding these massive projects seem to think so.

They do produce lots of benefits, the most importantof which is energy.

Up to 30% of the electricity generated is used for

the industrial production of fertilizer which isneeded to keep the fields fertile.


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