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dam-l Fwd: LS: How Flood Control has Corrupted a Society

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Subject: dam-l Fwd: LS: How Flood Control has Corrupted a Society
From: "Dam-Reservoir Working Group" <drwg@angelfire.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 05:59:08 -0500
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DATE: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:17:17
From: owner-irn-narmada@netvista.net
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The following is from the latest issue of Down to Earth, published by
Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Breach of trust

This is not a story about floods in Bihar. This is a story about
how an entire society has been corrupted by money meant to build
embankments for flood control. A lesson that poor environmental
management, especially one, which emphasises construction, leads
to corruption which may be difficult to get rid of. More so if
it gets intertwined with the political culture. The bogey of
floods was, and still is, being used to generate kickbacks for a
nexus of politicians, bureaucrats, engineers and contractors in
the state. Kilometres of embankments have been built but the
flood prone area in the state has only increased and so has the
misery of the people. A Down To Earth report.

http://www.oneworld.org/ cse/html/dte/dte991130/dte_analy.htm
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