what are dams.....have they proved to be beneficial.......Can we beleive what they say....or we just dont care.......? If not now.............maybe we'll see changes in.......just 30 years ...not a long time till then though.........
1. http://www.irn.org/wcd/#sum

Links to Facts on the Melting Himalayan Glaciers:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/05/0501_020502_himalaya_2.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Himalayan_meltdown_catastrophic_for_India/articleshow/1848002.cms
http://www.apn.gr.jp/en/products/project_reports/2004/Final%20Report/2004_02_CMY-Muhammed_.pdf

http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070528/2805301.htm

http://www.wwfchina.org/english/downloads/chinaglaciers.pdf

http://www.2007amsterdamconference.org/Downloads/AC2007_Mirza.pdf

http://planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp11/tf11_ecosys.pdf

DAY 13

DAY 13

Its now 13 days...........and that is 312 hrs and 18,720 minutes that Satyagrahis of ACT led by Dawa Lepcha and Tenzing Lepcha have gone hungry. While Dawa is back at BL house after being discharged from the hospital, Tenzing Lepcha and two others, Chimi Lepcha and Samten Lepcha have been admitted in STNM hospital. They continue their hunger strike there.

Well history has taught us that all developments need not necessarily be good for humanity. Uncontrolled, unplanned exploitation of nature undoubtedly leads to devastation. See what happened to the Indus Valley civilization and the Mesopotamian civilization ( the gift of Nile and presently Egypt). These regions, history tells us were the most fertile areas on earth. But excess human interference, greed to exploiy and harvest more crops than required later turned these fertile areas to what we now call the Thar Desert and part of desert which falls in Egypt. It is time to learn from Historical Blunders. The drive from Silliguri to Gangtok used to be beautiful. It is still beautiful but only till Rangpo. We must remember development and generation of revenues should be need based and not greed based.

Vivan Pradhan

hey,

i got to know about the issue today....and i'm really glad that someone took the initiative to do something to create awareness bout this issue... a group of us have taken a step to spread the cause among everyone here in b'lore and elsewhere... and i request to send more information bout this and this would help us a lot in out effort...

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