Disasters · floodplains · Floods · Yamuna River

Sept 2025: Why did Yamuna Repeat July 2023 Like Flood Spell in Delhi?

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Climate Change · Disasters · Environmental Laws · Himalayas

DRP 080925: Will the higher judiciary Listen?

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Dams

Sept 2025: 5 die when Kadana dam water release floods Gujarat Hydro project

At around 3 pm on Sept 4, in a major disaster, water gushed into under repair power house of 12 MW Ajanta hydropower plant on Mahi river near Tatroli village in Mahisagar district of Gujarat. The project is located on Dolatpur weir of Kadana dam on Mahi River, about 20 km downstream of the dam. Out of about 15 workers present, five are missing and so far one dead body have been found on Friday evening. Rest of the workers could escape and save them themselves. The project had faced damaging disaster earlier too. The water seems to have come from the discharge of huge quantity of water from upstream Kadana dam. The project owning company was also involved in the Morbi Bridge disaster earlier.

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Dam Induced Flood Disaster

Punjab Floods 2025: Role of Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar Dams

Every dam can potentially help moderate floods to some extent in the downstream area. This is possible only when the dam is operated with that objective in mind. However, when the dam is NOT operated with that objective and is filled up as soon as there is water available, the same dam can in fact bring avoidable flood disaster in the downstream area.

This is exactly what has happened in Punjab ONCE AGAIN during the 2025 SW Monsoon. This has happened on numerous occasions in the past including in 1978, 1988 and 2023, for example.

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Dam Induced Flood Disaster · Dam Safety · Dams, Rivers & People · Indus

DRP 010925: Punjab floods need independent inquiry

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Climate Change · Himalayas · Hydro Disaster · Landslide · Uttarakhand

Aug 2025: Landslide Damages NHPC’s Dhauliganga HEP in Uttarakhand

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Beas · Chenab · Climate Change · Dams · Floods · Himalayas

Vulnerable Nallahs in the Himalayas Need Urgent Attention

“When Jahlma Nallah starts roaring, we cannot sleep. It has been flooding for the past three years at least” said octogenarian Devi Singhji in October 2024. Jahlma Nallah, which joins the Chenab and blocks it occasionally, flooded again catastrophically in the monsoon of 2025.

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