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Article: Irrigation water and tears at India's Sardar Sarovar dam.(movement against dam)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- August 9, 1999
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Huddled under a makeshift plastic canopy in the monsoon rain, Bula Vasava swears to let the rising Narmada River drown him rather than give up his home. Even now, his three-acre farm is as good as gone forever. This February the Indian Supreme Court allowed the government to resume building Gujarat state's controversial Sardar Sarovar dam, pushing the massive structure's top to 88 meters. Some 12,000 local tribespeople like Vasava are expected to have been permanently flooded out of their ancestral homes, farms and mud-hut villages by the time the rainy season ends in September. Since 1988, when work began on the dam, roughly 30,000 valley dwellers have been forced to ...
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