Author: Cheryl Colopy

Water, energy, food needs have to be balanced

by Cheryl Colopy | Feb 22, 2019

The sorry state of Mahanadi River and of the majority of people living in its basin is due to poor planning that has ignored the water-energy-food nexus. Lives can be improved only by taking the nexus into account

The wounded Mahanadi

by Cheryl Colopy | Feb 20, 2019

Climate change and the tussle between industry and agriculture over decreasing amount of water from the Hirakud dam on the Mahanadi River in Odisha is a recipe for repeated disasters and perennial unrest

Coal power plant blights lives

by Cheryl Colopy | Feb 18, 2019

Next to the coal-fired power plant of Vedanta’s aluminium refinery complex near Jharsuguda in western Odisha, residents stare at ruined farms and poisoned water

Ken to Betwa, the link that destroys

by Cheryl Colopy | Oct 15, 2018

The government is determined to dig a canal to take the waters of the Ken River to the Betwa River through a protected forest despite the lack of water and local opposition

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