Water resources projects based on large dams have been viewed with extreme emotions from time to time. If Jawaharlal Nehru had famously called them temples of modern India, environmental activists of the 1980s and the 1990s have given the dams much less flattering names. Some have almost dubbed them agents of the World Bank/CIA, out to colonise and plunder the environment of India. But dams are here to stay, tens of thousands of them are dotting the Indian ...
