Most dams are built to control flood hazards, to store water for irrigation or other uses, or to produce electricity.

Along with these benefits come environmental costs including riparian habitat loss, water loss through evaporation and seepage, erosion, and declining water quality. Farther-reaching consequences of dams include changes in groundwater flow and the displacement of human populations.

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You are spaking against the motion that rivers should not dammed-no construction of dams. 1st argument from nature s point of view: a) Scientists and engineers have begun questioning whether construction os dams have actually agravated natural phenonmenon of flooding. b) If allowed to flow naturally along the river basin with no concreate construction to increase runoff, we allow water to percolate and increase the ground water level or even get stored in a rudimentary form. c) Rivers deposit silt all over the flood-plains making the surrounding land more fertile, particularly true in an agrarian country like ours. d) We must not overlook the fact that wetland store water and provide diverse flora and fauna. 2nd argument give definate example of three gorges project on river Yangste Kiang which I happened to see on the national geographic channel. The three gorges project was constructed against much international and internal objection. The question that arises is Why should there be objection against this 2309 metre long dam, 185m high dam designed to protect 50000 km. sq. from flooding and protect 15 million people in China? In construction of this dam 1.3 million people had to be re-located, four cities, eight towns, 365 villages where submerged as the reservoir water behind the dam rose. There was forced evacuation and resettlement was not easy because a meagre compensation was given to each household. There was silting in the lake which reduced sediments downstream and toxic wastes were stagnated in one area. There was also a threat of extinction of species and marine life due to the constricted flow of water. 3rd argument The world today is developing and technological break-through have permitted these montrous constructions at phenomenal expenditure and risk. However despite these civil engineering marvels, we have had most unfortunate incidents of dams collapsing under sheer weight of water and causing incomprehensible destructions. The United Nations describes the concept of Sustainable Development as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. We all look forward to developing technology that is appropriate to the skills, wealth and needs of local people. Yet another way of development is by using natural resources without harming the environment and more importantly, development of projects which are in harmony with nature.

First, the worst floods are the largest floods - to reduce the occurrence of large floods we would have to overdesign our dams. This would result in low efficiency and high costs as the dams would be mostly empty, as in the past 10 years of drought. And we can't accurately estimate the largest possible flood, particularly with predictions of increasing extreme events due to climate change. A dam can never provide full flood protection. Second, because of the inefficiency of having dams solely for flood prevention, most dams have multiple purposes, such as for power generation or water storage - and these counteract the effective floodprevention role. Finally, some interesting socio-economic research. Dams tend to give a false sense of security to people living below dams and on flood plains; they believe they are 100 per cent safe, which is never the case. And there is the fact that increasing water supply (through building additional water storages) always leads to increased water use and water demand. The volumes of water are significant. State jurisdiction starts with a pond of water the size of a football field to a depth of 8 feet, or at least 3.26 million gallons of water. In Arunachal Pradesh the intention of the government is to build about a hundred dams with a total capacity of 56,000 MW.The recent controversy in Arunachal Pradesh on the construction of dams voices some of these concerns. While the local tribes in Arunachal consider dams as an existential threat to their socio-cultural fabric, where development is divorcing them from their cultural heritage; organised protests in Assam stem from its lower riparian fears of being flooded due to manual tampering with the Brahmaputra waters. Environmentalists meanwhile have been raising the alarm since the dams would be built on a fragile ecological zone prone to frequent earthquakes. Increased sedimentation of rivers, they argue, can lead to loss of flora and fauna. In the US, Nationwide, the potential repair costs are staggering. A 2009 report by the state dam safety officials group put the cost of fixing the most critical dams where failure could cause loss of life at $16 billion over 12 years, with the total cost of rehabilitating all dams at $51 billion. Anyone who challenges this procedure is not challenging government but parliament of the country.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 Government version is a jokepal..SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 It's a cruel joke on the people of the country. If they think they can fool the people, then they are sadly mistaken. They played a cruel joke on people.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 This is cheating -- not just with Anna Hazare but with the entire nation. If states don't have Lokayukta, then corruption will never end. So, we will sit on a fast in Jantar Mantar from Aug 16 on... I will fast until my last breath.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 We said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should be brought under the ambit of the Lokpal bill. Also we discussed that all states should have Lokayukta (ombudsman). It was decided that all these things will be put forward while discussing the bill in the cabinet, but today we found that these were removed.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00

The prime minister himself offered that he should be included in the Lokpal but after due deliberations, weighing all pros and cons, the cabinet decided that the prime minister should be excluded.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 Overall, the task has been to ensure greater accountability and transparency in public life.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 16:22:00 The entire country will protest with me at Jantar Mantar on August 16...This is not Hazare's protest but the entire country's. The people need to look at this as a second fight for their freedom and they should all come out on the streets.SOURCE: Indian Express 2011-07-28 15:49:00 What is the difference between 2001 and 2011? In fact, I think the prime minister should be included in the Lokpal.SOURCE: Webindia123 2011-07-28 15:31:00 One of the issues raised is the question of keeping the prime minister outside the purview of the Lokpal. We don't understand why, because since 1989 every single proposal had prime minister's office in the Lokpal bill.SOURCE: Webindia123 2011-07-28 15:31:00 The government wrote to every chief minister, asking for their opinion on the Lokpal bill and all Congress-led states said that whatever the high command says they will agree. So this is cheating.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 13:49:00 This is cheating -- not just with Anna Hazare but with the entire nation. If states don't have Lokayukta, then corruption will never end. So, we will sit on a fast in Jantar Mantar from Aug 16 on... I will fast until my last breath.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 13:49:00 We said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) should be brought under the ambit of the Lokpal bill. Also we discussed that all states should have Lokayukta (ombudsman). It was decided that all these things will be put forward while discussing the bill in the cabinet, but today we found that these were removed.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 13:49:00 It should have an independently constituted selection mechanism, which should be accountable to the public and be financially self-sufficient.SOURCE: MyDigitalFC.com | Financial Chronicle 2011-07-28 13:49:00 People will teach a lesson to this government.SOURCE: Webindia123 2011-07-28 13:27:00 It will essentially be a sarkari Lokpal... It is a cruel joke on the people of the country.SOURCE: Webindia123 2011-07-28 13:27:00 Anna Hazare will sit on fast again from Aug 16.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00 Whatever clauses we had kept for the common man were removed.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00 The government took 40 years to act on the Lokpal, now they say they will bring a separate whistle blowers protection law, taking perhaps another 400 years.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00 It is a fractured bill. Even the whistle blowers are not protected. There is no effort to make an independent and clean judiciary. It would be good business for the media which will continue to get good TRPs from lots of corruption news, but you and I as citizens should be alarmed.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00 The common man cannot expect anything from this bill. They will continue to remain a victim of corruption at every level.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00

The PM will go to G20 summit and say we have a Lokpal. This is to show off. India was only better than Somalia and its pirates in signing the UN convention on corruption as after six years India signed that it will align its anti-corruption law with the UN. Only Somalia was behind.SOURCE: Keralanext 2011-07-28 13:18:00 If a prime minister does something corrupt to save his seat and there is no investigation into the corruption, then what does this mean?.SOURCE: Canada.com 2011-07-28 13:05:00 The overall thrust of the government has been to ensure greater transparency and accountability in every aspect of public life.SOURCE: Canada.com 2011-07-28 13:05:00 This bill will have a cascading effect.SOURCE: OneIndia 2011-07-28 13:02:00 It is a deceit on the nation.SOURCE: OneIndia 2011-07-28 13:02:00 This Lokpal Bill is a joke played on the nation the govt has betrayed the nation. We will fight tooth and nail for it.SOURCE: OneIndia 2011-07-28 13:02:00 I don't think it will be a very strong Lokpal Bill. For 44 years, they have not brought the Lokpal Bill and now they want to bring a bill which may not be a strong bill at all.SOURCE: Rediff 2011-07-28 12:34:00 This bill will have a cascading effect.SOURCE: Rediff 2011-07-28 12:34:00 It is not the end of the civil society movement, but the beginning.SOURCE: IndiaVision 2011-07-28 12:31:00 Next Lokpal Bill Profile | Lokpal Bill News | Lokpal Bill Videos | Lokpal Bill Photos | Lokpal Bill Quotes

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