Message-ID: <199504072109.QAA27886@mercury.forestry.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 16:09:50 -0500 From: Jim Perry <mailto:jperry@MERCURY.FORESTRY.UMN.EDU> Subject: Are India's dams unsafe? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
The following story was reported in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning:"Most of the dams in India are unsafe and could be swept away by floods, according to a confidential World Bank document published in newspapers. The Bank's survey of 25 dams in four states said that none could contain a heavy flood and that the consequences of a dam burst would be catastrophic. The study said that rough estimates showed that two thirds of the country's 947 dams are unsafe, the Pioneer newspaper in New Delhi reported."
Does anyone have access to the Bank Report? How about the Pioneer/New Delhi story? Is this well-founded and supported?
Jim Perry
Professor, Water Quality Deputy Director, Environmental Training Project for Central and Eastern Europe
University of Minnesota