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`Sharda-Yamuna project will create water wars'
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Aug. 12
THE Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RSFTE) on Thursday expressed its apprehension that the Sharda-Yamuna river linking project proposed by the former Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, would trigger water wars between the States instead of uniting them.
The river link, according to a study by RSFTE, would divert waters from the irrigated areas of the Sharda canal and the Ganga canal, resulting in desertification of nearly a million acres of the fertile Doab and Ganga basin.
The Sharda-Yamuna canal, in fact, would cause massive deforestation in the most important forest zones of the Himalayan foothills, including the Corbett National Park and Chila Sanctuary, said the Director, Dr Vandana Shiva.
These mega diversions of the river courses across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttaranchal, she said, would create conflicts since the people deprived of irrigation from the Sharda and the Ganga waters would resist the Sharda-Yamuna links just as Punjab farmers were resisting the diversion of Sutlej water through the Sutlej-Yamuna link.
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