aangiras

The perceptions on climate change threats from Hydrodams are not only too skewed but highly generalistic and wrong.In all the developing and least developed countries where energy is in great shortage, fuelwood is the main source of energy for essential requirements like cooking. Not a dry blade of grass is left in the reservoirs before their impounding in these countries. Therefore there is no question of any vegetation left in the reservoir to rot! This has been seen in all Indian reservoirs.Therefore to generalise that dams exascerbate climate change is wrong and misplaced. In fact hydropower is the cleanest source of energy.