The last gap in China's controversial Three Gorges Dam has been plugged, making the world's largest hydroelectric power project a reality. By 2009, the area will turn into a 560-kilometre lake, after
A controversy over the design of the Baglihar hydroelectric project on Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir is threatening to plunge the already strained ties between India and Pakistan into crisis. The
The Gujarat 2001 earthquake drove home the point that cities built on river alluvium and sand are likely to suffer maximum damage from an earthquake due to high water table and the construction of dams in the upper reaches
Nepal is generating surplus hydroelectricity. And it doesn't have to look far for buyers. For, the northern states of neighbouring India are reeling under a power crunch. In view of this, Nepal
Finally, hydro power is getting the importance that it deserves in Himachal Pradesh. The state, which boasts of a generation capacity of 25,000 megawatts (mw), had only tapped a fraction of its