Newsletter No. 60;
IRBMS
At present less than 0.6% of Tibet s hydropower mainly due to heavy rain that forced authorities to
resources have been developed. The Zangmu release
Hydropower Station started the trend. As early as Chembarambakkam reservoir into the Adyar river
1998, of over two days, causing it to flood its banks and
Resources submerge neighbourhoods on both sides. Adyar is
Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences not very deep or wide, and its banks have been
published an article in Guangming Daily entitled heavily encroached upon over the years. According
Could the world s biggest hydropower station be to the city s municipality, there are more than
built in Tibet? He proposed building a reservoir 150,000 illegal structures in the city and more than
on the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo to 300 tanks, canals and lakes have disappeared. The
raise the water level, and then drilling a 16- disaster had to do little with nature, and was
kilometre tunnel to carry the water to its tributary, primarily man-made. One man saw this crisis
the Duoxiong – a drop of 2,300 metres that would coming almost 10 years ago.
allow for three hydropower stations. For the sake Arun Krishnamurthy laid the
of safety and the environment, they could be built foundation
underground, he said. Environmentalist Foundation
Chen
Geographic
Chuanyou
Sciences
and
of
the Institute
Natural
a
massive
30,000
cusecs
from
the
of
of India (EFI) in 2007 by
( Source: https://www.chinadialogue.net)
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volunteering to clean a pond
in
his
Chennai.
neighborhood
The
in
organization
and its efforts grew from that one pond in Chennai
to over 39 lakes and 48 ponds to cover Tamil Nadu,
Special Feature:-
Kerala,
Karnataka,
Andhra,
Telangana,
New grass root level Water conservation trend Pondicherry and Gujarat in the last 10 years. EFI
is arising in India provides a platform for concerned citizens to
In recent past a series of actions are noticed at volunteer to solve environmental issues facing our
grass root level in water conservation, from river country. At EFI, it is believed that the effectiveness
rejuvenation, wetland conservation to reliving and impact of a project is not measured by money,
lakes and ponds. In December 2015 Chennai but by the level of commitment that the volunteers
witnessed its worst flood over five decades. It is
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Integrated River Basin Management Society