A small water harvesting structure can produce amazing economic crossover effects. The same may not be true for large canals

the search for a post-colonial paradigm in areas ranging from economics to aesthetics and the struggle for a more just world economic and political order (less burdened with neo-colonial categories)

The Indira Gandhi canal project is a costly failure that has led to destruction of habitat and loss of arable land

Rise in infectious diseases in the canal s command area

Ecological imbalance and pestilence in western Rajasthan

Adaptation in the desert

The great Suez Canal - conceived in Pharaonic times and built by a French entrepreneur - which links the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, will be going in for a facelift. The trouble is that

THE recent outbreak of falciparum malaria in non-endemic areas in Rajasthan has underscored the link between development projects and the damage they cause to the human environment. Public health

A cerebral malaria epidemic in Rajasthan has its source in the Indira Gandhi Canal

Using local material like boulders, wood and soil, Nepalese farmers have evolved an intricate system of canals and weirs for the optimum utilisation of scarce water resources

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