In flood-prone Kosi basin, planners must ignore ineffective high dams and seek sustainable solutions

From Scroll.in (Oct 29, 2020) Traditional ‘low tech’ wisdom is actually ‘high science’ perfected over the millennia by local communities. When the Kosi river floods in Bihar each year, Indian politicians and policy makers always have the same prescription: a high dam upstream in Nepal. But as the two previous parts of this series have
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