Beas · Climate Change · Dams · Disasters · Himalayas · Hydro Disaster

Himachal Pradesh: Sainj HEP Remains Out of Operation for over 4 months

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Dams · Ganga · Gangetic Dolphins

National Dolphin Day 2025: Deaths, Threats, Conservation Efforts related to Gangetic Dolphins

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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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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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Aug 2025: Chenab, Tawi and tributaries cross Highest Flood Levels: Muck Dumping worsens the impacts

In an event which is seem like an emergency, in. the morning of Aug 27 2025, Chenab and its tributaries have crossed Highest Flood Levels (HFL) at three hydrological observation sites between the under-construction 850 MW Ratle Hydropower Project in Kishtwar District and 900 MW Baglihar Hydropower Project in Ramban District in Jammu. Similarly, River Tawi is experiencing “Extreme Flood” in Jammu and has crossed its HFL.

At least 30 people have died at landslide near Vaishno Devi Pilgrimage site, Reuters reported.

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Climate Change · Dams · Disasters · Himalayas · Yamuna River

Aug 2025: Yamuna Flows Blocked at Syana Chatti in Uttarakhand

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Dams · Floods · Ganga · River Biodiversity · Rivers

Aug 2025: Flood Affects Satpuli Barrage Project in Uttarakhand

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Climate Change · Dams · Hydro Power Projects · Rivers

DRP 18 Aug2025: Sustainable Hydropower an Oxymoron?

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Climate Change · Dams · Rivers

DRP 040825: Arunachal Activists urge Centre to find dimensions of China’s Medog Dam

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Climate Change · Dams · Disasters · Floods · Rivers

DRP 210725: Moving Joshimath Landslide a threat to Tapovan Vishnugad HEP in UKD?

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