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... caused an enormous amount of loss and hardship to the local villagers . LOSS OF FORESTS AND WILDLIFE TO FLOODING In addition to causing the loss of agricultural land , dams have also caused the drowning of thousands of acres of forest ...
... caused an enormous amount of loss and hardship to the local villagers . LOSS OF FORESTS AND WILDLIFE TO FLOODING In addition to causing the loss of agricultural land , dams have also caused the drowning of thousands of acres of forest ...
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... caused deaths , injuries , and a vast amount of damage to houses and other structures . At Koyna and Hsinfengkiang , the dams themselves were damaged . In addition , a flood caused by a landslide at the Vaiont dam in Italy in 1963 ...
... caused deaths , injuries , and a vast amount of damage to houses and other structures . At Koyna and Hsinfengkiang , the dams themselves were damaged . In addition , a flood caused by a landslide at the Vaiont dam in Italy in 1963 ...
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... caused by floods has increased in spite of the vast amount of money that has been spent on flood controls . Since 1937 , the year that the structural flood control program was launched , the TABLE 6 , CONTINUED Annual Damage Caused by ...
... caused by floods has increased in spite of the vast amount of money that has been spent on flood controls . Since 1937 , the year that the structural flood control program was launched , the TABLE 6 , CONTINUED Annual Damage Caused by ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Problems of Resettlement | 17 |
Management and MaintenancePerennial Problems | 163 |
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