Dams, Barrages and Reservoirs

Cyclone Ockhi makes landfall, affects Lakshadweep islands, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

The river Alaknanda holds a special, sacred place for Indians. One of the two headstreams of the holiest river Ganga, Alaknanda originates from glaciers at the head of the Alaknanda valley in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district.

On January 13, 1957, the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Hirakud dam, calling it the temple of modern India. It has submerged more than 360 villages (1,23,000 acres of land) and displaced 26,561 families.

PM Modi inaugurates the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project

Centre allocates Maharashtra Rs 60,000 crore to link its rivers

Nitin Gadkari takes charge of water resources and Ganga rejuvenation

Groundwater rules might get relaxed

When I meet Puran Chand, an activist in the forefront of the anti-Renuka dam struggle, he dictates from the two much-thumbed pages of his notebook the several objections he has against the government’s plan for the rehabilitation of people displaced by the Renuka dam.

India eases assessment guidelines for India-Nepal Pancheshwar project 

Centre gives permission to close Sardar Sarovar dam gates