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August 2024: Tonga Dam Breach floods Madhya Pradesh villages

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Dam floods · Narmada

Imprudent management of SSP and other Narmada dams could create avoidable flood disaster in Sept 2024?

Similar to we wrote on Sept 1 2024[i], but possibly with even greater flood prospects and urgency, the situation in Narmada River Basin is once again moving towards a massive avoidable flood disaster due to imprudent management of Sardar Sarovar dam in Gujarat and dams including Indira Sagar, Omkareshwar, Bargi and Tawa dams in Madhya Pradesh. All of these dams are full or almost full with IMD Flash Flood Bulletin (FFB, bulletin is updated thrice a day) as at 0730 hrs on Sept 11 2024[ii] warning about the ongoing or imminent flash flood in Narmada Valley districts.

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