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Today: December 05, 2024

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every day

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every dayThe Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, under construction, will be one of India's largest hydropower dams.
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Parag Jyoti Saikia, Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - The Conversation

“Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish,” a woman yelled from outside. I was sitting in the kitchen at my friend Rupam’s house in rural northeast India. It was the heart of monsoon season, and rain had been falling since morning. The woman must have been shouting because the noise of the rain on the tin roof muted everything else.

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