Water War: India Minister and Greens Tangle Over Plan to Divert Rivers
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BBC reports that India’s Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati, says that India facing the impact of two straight meager monsoon seasons intends to divert water from “from major rivers like the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, to drought-prone areas.”
Indian environmentalists say the idea courts “ecological disaster.” The South Asia Network for Dams, Rivers and People organization says, “The project is based on the idea of diverting water from where it is surplus to dry areas but there has been no scientific study yet on which places have more water and which ones less.”
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Tags: rivers, India, civil engineering.
