Dams & Local Communities Mar. 21st.

·
Video Sardar Sadovar

↳ Tookalmost
60 to build dam Sardar Sarovardam
years
↳>
projectkeptbeing delayed because of
dissagreements
on how

to share waters of Narmada

↳ people started in 80,

to
manifestto stop project
↳ because it land &
was
submerge
going to thousands nectares of
of

uproot lives of & tribals,

farmes
↳ not worth it to
destroy ecology region
of

↳ World Bank backed out on

funding project
↳
Argumenstagainst: - 40.000
families displaced
37.500 nectares of land will
get sumerged
-

affecting livelihoods &

ecology
↳
Arguments in
favor: 2.5 crore people will gain access to drinning water
-

in Guiarat & Rajasthan

21 lakh nectares of land will in
get irrigated
-

desertdistricts of Rajasthan
Gugarat &

-1450 MW of installed
capacity
power

·Discussion

who benefits from dams?

-

-electricity
consumers

&agriculture in
dry areas

areas that
face because holds back water
heavy rains
-Who is
negativaly impacted by dams?
Local communities

Lindigenous people -> ethnocide:

forcing people lose
to their culture

~fish & wildlife because it

disrupts
natural river flows
 ↳climate
change by contributing loss
to
of carbon sequestration in Hooded

area)

by thore decisions?
who makes dams? Who is impacted
decisions about

& companies
(mostly governmentagencies private
Local communities & the most
indigenous people are affected

How could those who are

negatively impacted become the main beneficiaries
-

of dams?

~if local &

indigenous communities are involved in process by being consulted

participalon needs & concerns of

or active
region

·Belo Monte

Environmental & Social Effects

-

-Displacement
7
Increase in violence & crimerate

Violation Human
of
Rights
Diversity Loss
-

~loss of valuable species

<many fish are migratory &

by changing flow of river, fish can't
migrate
harming fish population
-Environmental impacts

-Floodplain disconnections s when dams block natural flow of river causing

in water levels &
changes Hooding in
region