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... million ( of which 40 million were displaced by dams ) .17 We daren't say so , because it isn't official . It isn't official because we daren't say so . You have to murmur it for fear of being accused of hyperbole . You have to whisper ...
... million ( of which 40 million were displaced by dams ) .17 We daren't say so , because it isn't official . It isn't official because we daren't say so . You have to murmur it for fear of being accused of hyperbole . You have to whisper ...
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... million ( 1989 ) - nice touch , the decimal point ! to 40 million ( 1992 ) and down to 25 million ( 1993 ) .35 - The number of villages that would receive drinking water was zero in 1979 , 4,719 in the early ' 80s , 7,234 in 1990 and ...
... million ( 1989 ) - nice touch , the decimal point ! to 40 million ( 1992 ) and down to 25 million ( 1993 ) .35 - The number of villages that would receive drinking water was zero in 1979 , 4,719 in the early ' 80s , 7,234 in 1990 and ...
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... 40 million people who live downstream in Bangladesh.92 At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism . Build a dam to take water away from 40 million people . Build a dam to pretend to bring water to 40 ...
... 40 million people who live downstream in Bangladesh.92 At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism . Build a dam to take water away from 40 million people . Build a dam to pretend to bring water to 40 ...
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40 million acres Ahmedabad Bargi dam Baroda Bhaiji Bhai Bharuch Big Dams bomb bulldozers cash compensation command area construction cost crores Dalit dam-builders displaced downstream drainage drinking water Ferkuwa fight specific wars forest Gandhi going Government of Gujarat Government of India Government's Greater Common hectares Hilsa Hoolock Gibbon human Independent Review irrigation Jabalpur Jai Prakash Associates Jalud Kevadia Colony kilometres Kutch and Saurashtra land landless labourer live loan Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Maheshwar dam Malaysia Manibeli metres monsoon moved Narmada Bachao Andolan Narmada Sagar Narmada Valley Development National Nehru Pamela Cox planners police Project Affected ragged army resettlement sites river salinity Sardar Sarovar dam Sardar Sarovar Projects Sardar Sarovar reservoir scheme Shoolpaneshwar Sanctuary silt Single Authority slated for submergence soil standing crops story Supreme Court there's thing thousand tribal Ukai Dam Undava upstream Valley Development Project villages wars in specific water-logging Wonder Canal World Bank