>Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys >X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 9542609-m1172 >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-QHPSI: clean >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Originating-IP: 202.144.76.20 >X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:0:0:0:0 >From: D K Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Yahoo-Profile: dkmishra108 >X-eGroups-Edited-By: mediavigil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-eGroups-Approved-By: mediavigil ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> via web; 29 Aug 2007 >11:06:40 -0000 >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Id: <WaterWatch.yahoogroups.com> >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:13:42 +0600 (IST) >Subject: [WaterWatch] Re:Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help? >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: groups-email-tradt-m >X-Chzlrs: 0 > >It is a futile exercise to expect the Water >Resources Department WRD, whether State or >Central, or the Central Water Commission CWC to >talk about issuing warnings for a possible >breach in the embankments. We have been raising >this issue in Bihar for years now but without >any result. > >The reason is not very difficult to find. The >state WRD which is responsible to repair and >maintain these embankments has a history of >refusing to accept that a breach has occurred at >some place ( Sohrai breach in the eastern Kamla >embankment near Jhanjharpur in Madhubani >district 1993) and it also has a history of >confusing victims of floods regarding the time >of breach (Famous Kosi embankment breach of 1984 >). It is still not resolved whether the breach >had occurred on the 5th September or the 6th. If >only any of the Government Departments are >interested in protecting people against such >calamities; they will never pass the buck on to >the rats and foxes, which according to the >concerned departments dig holes in the body of >the embankments. These holes, according to them, >lead to failure of the embankments. > >To hide the inefficiency and irresponsibility of >their personnel, the WRD often suggests (on >record) that such and such embankment has not >breached and it was the handiwork of some >anti-social elements who cut the embankments >with ulterior motives. Newspaper reports from >Bihar during the flood season are full with such >incidences. It never occurs to WRD as to why >those for whose benefit an embankment has been >constructed would cut the embankment? Since it >does not occur at all to them, they never try to >find out the reason why an embankment is cut and >perpetuate the fraud on the people. > >Another argument that is given often by the >politicians and conspicuously supported by the >silence of the WRD is that Nepal has released >water into the river that has led to >unmanageable flow in the river that leads to the >failure of the embankment. This, despite the >fact that there is no control work in Nepal, the >releases from which could cause inundation in >the Gangetic Flood Plains. Rabri Devi had >Charged Nepal of releasing water into the >Bagmati in 2002 that had resulted in washing >away of a bus carrying a marriage party. > >However, when it suits politicians, they would >cry hoax that a breach has occurred just it had >happened in Joginia in Nepal (1991) on the >Western Kosi Embankment � 3 kilometers down >the Bhimnagar Barrage. > >The best forewarning of a possible breach or an >unusual flood in any area is the one when the >civil authorities or the technical staff start >moving their families away to safer places. Keep >a watch on them and infer accordingly. No other >warning is taking worth seriously. >To expect that CWC or any other institution >would issue a warning for a possible breach >would be suicidal for them. > >Dinesh Kumar Mishra >Convenor � Barh Mukti Abhiyan >Road No-6 Rajiv Nagar >Patna 800024 >Bihar, India >Mob: +919431303360 >29th August 2007 > > > > > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> There is 1 message in this issue. > >Topics in this digest: > >1. Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help? > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Message >________________________________________________________________________ > >1. Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help? > Posted by: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] povertyfree77 > Date: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:02 am ((PDT)) > >Did Govt's flood forecasting & embankments help? > >Flood forecasting has been recognized as one of >the most important, reliable and cost-effective >non-structural measures for flood management. > >Central Water Commission, Ministry of Water >Resources has set up a network of forecasting >stations covering all important flood prone >interstate rivers. > >The forecasts issued by these stations are used >to alert the Public and to enable the >administrative and engineering agencies of the >States/UT's to take appropriate measures. > >Central Water Commission started >flood-forecasting services in 1958 with the >setting up of its first forecasting station on >Yamuna at Delhi Railway Bridge. > >The website of Ministry of Water Resources >claims that it has at present a vast network of >945 hydrological observation stations and issues >level forecast for 145 sites and inflow >forecasts of 28 dam barrage sites located on >main rivers. > >It also says that "The web site provides latest >forecasts issued by the divisions of CWC." but >if one visits it one only find one message: >"The page cannot be found". > >Hundreds of people are reported to have lost >their lives and many more lost everything they >owned when the waters rose in North Bihar. > >For people across 300 villages in Koshi, flood >and waterlogging is a yearlong problems because >the very embankments that are meant to stop the >flood have stopped it for good letting water >stagnate. > >General feeling is that it is the contractors, >politicians and bureaucrats who stand to gain >from the projects set up to build and maintain >these embankments. Over several decades >thousands of kilometers of embankments have been >built but flood prone areas in have more than >doubled. > >Victims of flood do not have any voice in whose >name newer and bigger embankments are being >built. > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WaterWatch/ > ><*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > ><*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WaterWatch/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > ><*> To change settings via email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >
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