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Big India Dam, Unfinished and Silent, Could Be Tomb For Giant Hydropower Projects

by Keith Schneider April 6, 2015March 28, 2025

Lower Subansiri River construction site was shut in 2011 and never restarted.

A coal-fired power plant under construction near the Mahanadi River in Chhattisgarh

Water Management

What Can Be Done to Strengthen India’s Natural Resource Management? [Part 2 of 2]

by Circle of Blue March 26, 2015March 28, 2025

The cycle of risk produced by the policy of providing free water and free electricity to operate millions of irrigation pumps yields endemic surpluses, drains groundwater, contributes to brownouts and blackouts, and causes uneaten grain to pile up in outdoor storage areas, like this one in Punjab.

India’s Water, Food, Energy Conundrum: Conclusions From a Two-Year Reporting Project [Part 1 of 2]

by Circle of Blue March 25, 2015March 28, 2025

Along Fouled Ganga, Fresh Resolve to Make India’s Mother River Clean Again

by Keith Schneider January 14, 2015March 14, 2016

Meghalaya’s Coal Shutdown Order Tests Law and New Court’s Resolve

by Keith Schneider November 25, 2014March 14, 2016

India Harvests Sun and Wind to Save Water and Power a Slowing Economy

by Keith Schneider May 28, 2014July 11, 2016

India’s Treacherous Coal Mines in Meghalaya

by Keith Schneider May 15, 2014July 29, 2021

Uttarakhand Flood Disaster Made Worse By Existing Hydropower Projects, Expert Commission Says

by Keith Schneider May 8, 2014March 7, 2025

Uttarakhand’s Furious Himalayan Flood Could Bury India’s Hydropower Program

by Keith Schneider April 2, 2014March 7, 2025

Water & Energy, Water News

Mismanagement of Abundance: Constellation of Coal Mines Across India Not Enough to Prevent Blackouts

by Keith Schneider June 28, 2013February 5, 2016

Agriculture, Water & Energy, Water News, Water Policy

Scarcity in a Time of Surplus: Free Water and Energy Cause Food Waste and Power Shortage in India

by Keith Schneider June 20, 2013June 8, 2016

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Agriculture, Climate, Water & Energy, Water News, Water Policy

Choke Point: India — The Leopard in the Well

by Keith Schneider June 10, 2013October 27, 2020

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Great Lakes Water Funding Faces a Critical Year in Congress

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Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.

The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

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Bayer’s All-Out Campaign to Protect Roundup

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A global chemical giant fights to shield glyphosate from liability.

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Consumers Warns Michigan: Dams Could be Torn Down Unless Utility Sells Them

Consumers Warns Michigan: Dams Could be Torn Down Unless Utility Sells Them

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