Yesterday on a research group, there was this message and an appeal regarding a Kerala dam. It is Known as Mullaperiyar dam. Built near the confluence of two rivers, this dam is one of the oldest in the dam(n) history.
You may wonder why I am repeatedly using the term dam(n) in our blog. Well, reading up on the age old contraption was rather scary. It was built more than a century ago. It is built with limestone. Already, it is depleting by the second. No real action for decades though!
Involved in the entire debate is a lease from the colonial era. According to this lease emerges a quarrel between two states regarding resources (re)distribution. Whatever might be the terms and conditions, they indeed need to be immediately negotiated.
Apparently the aging and sick (in all senses of the term) structure, a la gravitational pull and in an earthquake prone region, is hyper dangerous because in the basin below are other dams that are sure to get affected by the ticking water bomb.
Reading up the entire history, the debate even in basic outline form, is sure to send shivers down the spine. Having read about the Panshet dam burst, the Sangli-Kolhapur terror last year, the Chiplun/Konkan tragedy this year, not to forget the Malin type of landslides, no wonder, the only response possible is dam(n)! Hope wisdom prevails sooner, and not at all later! Death (of a dam, too,) is indeed irreversible!
Pratima@pray against the prey!
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