Plans to put through (telephone) 37 rivers in India to prevent flooding and drought maintain been criticised for large-scale displacement and environmental destructionAfter four decades of debate,Indias plans to put through (telephone) its rivers finally got underway last September. Drums were played, bright yellow flowers were thrown and mantras were chanted. Farmers and journalists waded into the brown waters of the Godavari river as the first pumps of the Pattiseema irrigation scheme were turned on, and lifting water into a canal and down towards the Krishna river.
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Source: theguardian.com