dams

The completion of this infrastructure leads to lasting controversy over the severe deterioration in the flow of the Ganges and the decay of the river as an inland waterway.

The instability of a dam project near the town of Lorca in North Spain causes an inundation killing nearly 1000 people.

Pakistan’s Kalabagh Dam Project is constructed and becomes highly contested as it develops from an irrigation project into a major effort to generate hydroelectric power.

With the construction of the multipurpose Hirakud Dam across the River Mahanadi in India, multipupose river valley projects emerge in India.

The Act is passed by the British colonial government in 1894 to facilitate the acquisition of land from certain Indian peasants in exchange for cash.

Originally formed to advocate against dam construction, the organization, which later became the Australian Wilderness Society, now supports various environmental protection and education projects.