Near the farming town of Tilda, the towering steel superstructure of a giant GMR 1,370-megawatt coal-fired power plant emerges from the afternoon haze above several lengths of steel pipe, each as long as a fence and as wide as a truck tire. When the pipeline is completed in 2014, it will draw 32 million cubic meters of water annually from the Mahanadi River, located 40 kilometers away, which is Chhattisgarh’s primary source of surface fresh water. Already, 73 percent of the state’s existing electrical production already relies on the Mahanadi and, along with the GMR plant, 58,000 megawatts of new generating capacity is planned in Chhattisgarh. (Image © Aubrey Ann Parker / Circle of Blue)

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