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... built . " Eighty per cent of the villages in the Sardar Sarovar command area will receive no irrigation benefits from the dam . Of those that do 70 per cent are neither drought - prone nor arid . Much of the land to be irrigated is ...
... built . " Eighty per cent of the villages in the Sardar Sarovar command area will receive no irrigation benefits from the dam . Of those that do 70 per cent are neither drought - prone nor arid . Much of the land to be irrigated is ...
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... built today are safer than ever before ... The modern , well - designed and constructed dam presents negli- gible risk to the public . " This is to assume the opti- mum conditions and context for dam construction ; conditions that would ...
... built today are safer than ever before ... The modern , well - designed and constructed dam presents negli- gible risk to the public . " This is to assume the opti- mum conditions and context for dam construction ; conditions that would ...
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... built . She concludes , by noting that " this dam is only one of hundreds of such massive developments around the world that are already built or in the planning stages . It is not enough to argue that hydro is prefer- able to thermal ...
... built . She concludes , by noting that " this dam is only one of hundreds of such massive developments around the world that are already built or in the planning stages . It is not enough to argue that hydro is prefer- able to thermal ...
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