Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Rubber Dam Market 2021 CAGR Status, Share, Industry Size, Top Key Players, Traders and Dealers, Marketing Channel, Future Trend & Size Prediction to 2027| Material Motion, KEYMAY Industries, Dyrhoff

LOS ANGELES, United States: The report offers an all-inclusive and accurate research study on the global Rubber Dam market while chiefly focusing on current and historical market scenarios. Stakeholders, market players, investors, and other market participants can significantly benefit from the thorough market analysis provided in the report. The authors of the report have compiled a detailed study on crucial market dynamics, including growth drivers, restraints, and opportunities. This study will help market participants to get a good understanding of future development of the global Rubber Dam market. The report also focuses on market taxonomy, regional analysis, opportunity assessment, and vendor analysis to help with comprehensive evaluation of the global Rubber Dam market.[Readmore]

China-India relations: Beijing should speed up hydropower project, Tibetan official says



Planning and environmental impact assessments for dams on Yarlung Tsangpo River ‘should be approved as soon as possible’, region’s Communist Party deputy chief says
Chairman of the development company said in November the project would help to ensure China’s ‘water resources security and homeland security’. China should accelerate plans to build a hydropower plant on a river near its disputed border with India, a senior official said at a meeting on the sidelines of the National People’s Congress.
A proposal to construct dams on the lower reaches of the 2,900km (1,800 mile) Yarlung Tsangpo River was first presented in November and is included in China’s latest
five-year plan, which was released on Friday at the ongoing legislative meeting in Beijing. The river rises in Tibet before flowing through the Himalayas and into India, where it is known as the Brahmaputra.[Readmore]

Wednesday, 24 March 2021

UK Space Sector Gets £1 Million Government Boost To Support International Innovation

Five new projects have been awarded a share of over £1 million of government funding to work with international partners on innovative space technology.

London: Projects to remotely probe ice on Mars to help explorers find life below the surface, a system to warn of impacts of flood risks to infrastructure based on research in India and a scheme to design UK imaging technology for a space telescope are among the new international initiatives to receive backing from the UK Space Agency’s National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP).

The funding will see UK companies and organizations working with partners such as NASA, and space agencies from Canada, Japan, and Italy. NSIP is the first fund dedicated to supporting the UK space sector’s innovation through collaborations with international partners designed to contribute to UK science, security, and prosperity.

HR Wallingford will be collaborating with the Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS), the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH), Roorkee and the National Centre of Coastal Research (NCCR), India.[Readmore]

Marriott retaining wall prevents erosion, must stay up, says GCZMA


Panaji: Disposing of a long-standing matter, the Goa coastal zone management authority (GCZMA) recently decided that the Goa Marriott at Miramar should be allowed to keep its retaining wall. Goa Foundation had sought its demolition as a violation of CRZ norms. However, GCZMA relied on reports by the WRD and the central water and power research station (CWPRS), which functions under the Union Jal Shakti ministry.

The reports stated that the retaining wall was necessary in the anti-erosion measures being taken by the WRD from the Campal Park up to the hotel stretch of the Mandovi bank. Goa Foundation had argued that there was no need to call for the report from the CWPRS, Pune, when an earlier high court ruling in the matter had decided on its legality.[Readmore]

3-D model of Polavaram spillway passes tests


CE B Sudhakar Babu said that the model study results emerged successfully and that the modified layout report would be presented to the DDRP shortly.


VIJAYAWADA: The pending critical designs related to the spillway of Polavaram Irrigation Project (PIP) will soon be sent to the Central Water Commission (CWC) as the results of the model study conducted on the 3D model of the spillway designed by Pune-based Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS) on various conditions of flow of flood proved successful. On Tuesday, officials from the state led by chief engineer (PIP) B Sudhakar Babu visited Pune to see the results.

According to information, the revised layout of upstream guide bund was sent to the CWPRS after the Dam Design Review Panel (DDRP) meeting held last month as top currents were observed in the final model inspected on February 18. Guide bunds are provided for guiding the river flow past the diversion structure without causing damage to it and its approaches. Accordingly, an alternative layout drawing of rockfill guide wall and connecting channel to approach channel on left bank of upstream side spillway was submitted by the state government last month.[Readmore]

Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Supreme Court adjourns hearing in Mullaperiyar Dam case till March 9


The issue of the Mullaperiyar dam that exists on the Periyar river involved the ongoing water legal dispute between Tamil Nadu against the Kerala government.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the Mullaperiyar dam maintenance and safety issues case till March 9, after the Union of India (UOI) sought more time to file its reply in the case.

The UOI today sought more time to file its reply in the case, after which a bench of the Apex Court, headed by Justice AM Khanwilkar and also comprising Justice Dinesh Maheshwari, allowed the prayer of the UOI and deferred the hearing till March 9, Tuesday.[Readmore]

Wednesday, 3 March 2021

International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Symposium on Sustainable Development of Dams & River Basins inaugurated

New Delhi: The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Symposium on Sustainable Development of Dams & River Basins was inaugurated by Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister for Jal Shakti as Chief Guest and Shri R.K. Singh, Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Govt. of India presided over the Opening Ceremony today.

International Commission on Large Dams(INCOLD) in collaboration with Central Water Commission (CWC), Dam Rehabilitation Improvement Project (DRIP) and National Hydrology Project (NHP) is organising Symposium on “Sustainable Development of Dams and River Basins” under the aegis of ICOLD at New Delhi as Hybrid event from 24th – 27th February 2021. More than 300 delegates from across the country and abroad will participate in the Symposium.[Readmore]

DRC, India to resume talks on stalled Katende dam & hydroelectric project

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is set to resume talks with its Indian counterpart on the possibilities of the recommencement of the implementation of the stalled Katende dam & hydroelectric project in the province of Kasaï-Central, in the Central African country.


This was revealed by Eustache Muhanzi, the DRC’s Minister of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity after visiting the site of the project and seeing the state of the equipment installed before the construction works came to a standstill approximately 4 years ago.[Readmore]

India hosting global dam experts meet in backdrop of Uttarakhand flash floods


The Uttarakhand tragedy earlier this month has once again raised the spectre of hydropower projects in the ecologically fragile regions.


NEW DELHI: India is hosting a high-level meeting of the Paris-headquartered International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). This symposium of experts on dams, to end tomorrow, comes in the backdrop of one of the worst human and ecological tragedy following a glacier burst and flash floods in Uttarakhand.

The incident earlier this month has renewed concerns over hydropower projects in the ecologically fragile and earthquake-prone Himalayan region.[Readmore]