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A few weeks after the NDA came into power, the environment minister announced that the interlinking of rivers project - which had been more or less stalled under UPA 2 - will get an impetus under the new government.
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The Centre has now started groundwork in the Ken-Betwa project, involving Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, while a detailed project report to link the Damanganga and Pinjal rivers to provide drinking water from Mumbai has been submitted to the Maharashtra and Gujarat governments.
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This is not the first river-linking project in the world: There is the Colorado River Aqueduct in the US, the National Water Carrier in Israel, the Cutzamala System in Mexico, and the as yet incomplete South-North Water Transfer Project in China.
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All these projects, like the Indian one, aim at improving agriculture, tackling floods, and providing drinking water to parched areas.
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But India&#039;s National River Linking Project (NRLP) has huge ambitions: After completion, the NRLP will have 30 river links, 3,000 storage structures, a canal network of almost 15,000 km, generate 34 GW of hydroelectric power, create some 87 million acres of irrigated land, and would transfer a mind-boggling 174 trillion litres of water per annum at a total cost Rs. 5.6 lakh crore.
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While the construction lobby and the water bureaucracy are happy with the restarting of the project, the green lobby has pointed to a disastrous Soviet precedent. In the 1930s, engineers planned &amp;quot;to reverse the flow of northern rivers flowing wastefully into the sea&amp;quot; to travel southwards to the arid Central Asian region.
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But the scheme was given up in 1986 because of environmental reasons.
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