Older dams and extremely heavy rains posing disaster threats?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- On late Saturday night of August 10, 2024, the 19th crest gate of the Tungabhadra dam in Karnataka’s Hospet washed away, alarming lakhs of people in Karnataka and downstream Andhra Pradesh for a potential flooding.
The 71-year-old dam gate malfunctioned inaugurated in 1953, now raises a concern over its dam safety.
Similarly, in the wake of the deadly Wayanad landslides in neighboring Kerala, concerns over its 130-year-old masonry-built Mullaperiyar Dam are being raised yet again.
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Tamil Nadu is being unreasonably obstinate about this water-sharing issue. Kerala has expressed willingness to share water, but with necessary safeguards for 35 million people. This arrogant stance from Tamil Nadu will have negative consequences and won't be ignored. Could people be more dummer?
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They won't get a bottle of water if dam breaks
DECOMISSION MULLAPERIYAR DAM, SAVE KERALA PEOPLE
Damage is already done. Just wait for the consequences.
Biggest problem of Climate change.
In the wake of TB dam on Karnataka
Every farmer who holds a land should have a pond inside their land.
It can be planned in such a way that the water discharged can be stored in these ponds for irrigation purposes.
They can even plant deep rooted tree varairies around the pond inorder to recharge the underground acquifers.
Read similar concerns in an article few years back about the state of dams in Pennsylvania USA; these infrastructures need maintenance and hence funds for the same.
But not only are we squeezing tax money from depleting middle class and giving tax breaks to the rich; we are also putting critical infrastructure that atleast the middle and lower class depend on at risk- risk to infrastructure and risk to public safety.
Climate change impacts are already not testing but failing our infrastructures as we witness the collapse.
Karnataka congress government is a joke
*Thankyou Down to Earth 🌎*
Yes. This is a global problem. No dam is really prepared for the conditions they face. No infrastructure is. One can wonder if dams are practical in an extreme weather world. All the world of solar panels and wind turbines and all the money going to them mean nothing if they are burned and washed away in floods and as the infrastructure supplying them collapses. The one measure every community can take is to figure out as quickly as possible how to sustain themselves from resources in their own territory immediately. Realistically this means permaculture and ecological restoration. Oh and dollar denominated debt even more of a problem in this brave new world, because the US isn’t exactly immune from economic collapse.
Decommission Mullaperiyar dam
Save Keralam
You write to the government for this...
No dam is gonna stand for 1000 years. Annual maintenance is needed. You people took the dam under your control during the period of MGR from TN. Are you conducting annual maintenance?
If you don’t have the resources, you shouldn’t have taken it. Your greed and vengeance is growing everyday. You are holding excess water in your region. In Wayanad your government was told that it is in Sensitive Area 1 you are not supposed carry on with your rock mining, tea estate, tourism infrastructure and deforestation.
still your government refused to follow through with it and instead it chose to go ahead. Wayanad is negligence of Kerala state government. You are just using this issue to decommission Mullai Periyar Dam. Learn the word called Maintenance or make your state a union territory Indian government will do it for you. Kerala population is low and it’s a very narrow land with lots of natural disaster and no solid government. Making Kerala a union Territory is the only solution.