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HP ‘Kulhs’ bear the brunt of small hydro projects

The traditional community managed gravity flow irrigation system in Himachal Pradesh villages, ‘kuhls’ are bearing the brunt of small hydro-electric projects (SHPs) on rivulets and streams. Referred as ‘environment-friendly’, the small hydro projects are damaging perennial water channels (‘kuhls’), flowing through villages for irrigation, owing to lack of monitoring on the ground and absence of …

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May 7, 2018