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Aerial view of the washed away Tapovan hydel power project plant after Sunday’s glacier burst. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: After a massive flash flood triggered by a glacial lake burst wreaked havoc in the Rishiganga valley of Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district recently, serious concerns are once again being raised over hydropower and hydroelectricity projects in the region.
Experts have demanded a ban on heavy infrastructure work carried out under such projects in the fragile eco-sensitive zones of the Himalayas. Deep concerns have also been expressed over the adverse effects on the health of the Ganga river as these projects restrict water flow.
Vladimir Smakhtin has 30 years of experience as a Researcher and Manager in the broad area of water resources with an emphasis on global and regional water scarcity and food security. He holds a PhD from the Russian Academy of Science, and worked at Rhodes University and CSIR in South Africa, and as a research program director at the CGIAR research Center -International Water Management Institute, headquartered in Sri Lanka. His experience spreads across agricultural and environmental water management, low-flow and drought analyses, assessment of basin development and climate change impacts on water availability and access, provision of hydrological information for data-poor regions, water-related disaster risk management. He initiated, managed or contributed to numerous research initiatives in over 20 countries worldwide, including the state programme for mitigating the consequences of Chernobyl Accident in Russia and Ukraine, development of Ecological Reserve methods in South Afric
Manzoor Qadir is an environmental scientist with over 30 years’ experience in the fields of policy, institutional and biophysical aspects of water recycling and safe reuse, water quality and environmental health, water and food security, water and land management under climate change, and unconventional water resources. He holds a PhD from the University of Agriculture, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Before joining UNU-INWEH, he held senior scientific positions at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI); served as Visiting Professor at the Justus-Liebig University, Germany; and Associate Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and managed various research projects in Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, with significant capacity development and knowledge sharing components. Dr Qadir contributed to major global international resear
By Kim Harrisberg
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From growing vegetables to spending more time with their children, women s quality of life improved drastically after piped water was installed near their homes in rural Zambia, Stanford University researchers said on Thursday.
In a study involving 434 households in four Zambian villages, they found not having to walk to a communal water source saved each home about 200 hours per year on average - freeing up time for more productive activities. Women and girls benefit the most from alleviation of domestic chores and from food production for nutrition and income generation, said Barbara van Koppen, emeritus scientist at research organisation the International Water Management Institute.