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Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resource Managment

The document discusses multi-purpose river projects and integrated water resource management. These projects build dams on rivers to serve multiple purposes like irrigation, power generation, and water supply. However, large dams have come under scrutiny for negatively impacting natural river flows and sedimentation as well as fragmenting aquatic habitats and submerging floodplains.

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Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water Resource Managment

The document discusses multi-purpose river projects and integrated water resource management. These projects build dams on rivers to serve multiple purposes like irrigation, power generation, and water supply. However, large dams have come under scrutiny for negatively impacting natural river flows and sedimentation as well as fragmenting aquatic habitats and submerging floodplains.

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  • Multi-purpose River Projects Overview: Discusses the purpose and history of multi-purpose river projects and their significance.
  • Reasons for Opposing the Projects: Outlines the environmental and ecological reasons for the opposition to multi-purpose river projects.
  • Social Impact of Multiple River Projects: Examines the social movements, beneficiaries, and those not benefiting from these projects.
  • Conclusion: Summarizes the trade-offs involved in the development and destruction caused by such projects.
  • Questions: Provides questions and answers regarding the multi-purpose projects' beneficiaries, history, and opposition reasons.

Multi-purpose River Projects and Integrated Water

Resource Management

Introduction
Multi-Purpose River Projects and Integrated Water
Resources Management. These are those river
valley projects that serve multiple purposes
such as irrigation, hydroelectric power
generation and drinking water supply by
building dams in the rivers.

Multi-purpose river projects


Multi-purpose projects, launched on July 7, 1948,
with their integrated water resources management.
Jawaharlal Nehru proudly proclaimed the dams as
the ‘temples of modern
India’.The reason is it would integrate
development of agriculture and the village
economy with rapid industrialisation and growth
of the urban economy.

Reasons for opposing this project


In recent years, multi-purpose projects and large
dams have come under great scrutiny and
opposition for a variety of reasons.
 Regulating and damming of rivers affect their
natural flow causing poor sediment flow and
excessive sedimentation at the bottom of the
reservoir.
 Resulting in rockier stream beds and
poorer habitats for the rivers’ aquatic life.
 Dams also fragment rivers making it difficult
for aquatic fauna to migrate, especially for
spawning.
The reservoirs that are created on
the floodplains also submerge the existing
vegetation and soil.
 leading to its decomposition
over a period of time.
Environmental movements by multi-purpose
projects

Multi-purpose projects and large dams


have also been the cause of many new social
movements like the ‘Narmada Bachao Andolan’
and the ‘Tehri Dam Andolan’ etc.

Persons who are benefited


The landowners and large farmers,
industrialists and few urban centres are benefited.

Persons who are not benefited


The local people are not benefiting
from such projects.

Conclusion
Development for one may be destruction for
others.
Questions
[Link] are benefited in multi-purpose project?
Ans. The landowners and large farmers,
industrialists and few urban centres are benefited.

[Link] are not benefited in multi-purpose project?


Ans. The local people are not benefited
from such projects.
[Link] was multi-purpose project launched?
Ans. Multi-purpose project was launched on July
7, 1948, by an Act of the Constituent Assembly of
India (Act No. XIV of 1948) as the first
multipurpose river valley project of independent
India.
[Link] Nehru proudly proclaimed the dams
as________
Ans. Temples of modern India.
[Link] the Multi-purpose project was opposed?
State any two reasons.
 Ans. Regulating and damming of rivers affect
their
natural flow causing poor sediment flow and
excessive sedimentation at the bottom of the
reservoir.
 Resulting in rockier stream beds and
poorer habitats for the rivers’ aquatic life.
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