The innkeepers torrent
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Two more were damaged.īy the end of this trip, I’ll know more, and next year, Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center will publish what we’ve learned as part of our new Choke Point: India project.Reaper does not take up as much hard disk space and does not load the processor as programs from the FL Studio, Cubase, Reason or Sonar series. As India, China, and other neighbors push higher up in the Himalayas to build energy-producing projects, the mountains are pushing back. Climate change is melting the Himalaya’s glaciers and producing more serious rain events. Still, the consequences of dam building to fisheries and the landscape are important and measurable. There are also job, technology, and durable economic benefits from building big dams and power stations. India and China see in hydro development an opportunity to diversify their electric production sector, reduce reliance on climate-changing coal, and develop cleaner energy sources. And rivers fall fast and with immense kinetic energy.Ĭhina also has a big hydro development program underway on the other side of these big, unstable, treacherous mountains. The Himalayas are viewed as a prime hydroelectric production region. Though I have plenty of questions about policy and dam design that I am looking to answer this week in Delhi, it seems to me that what happened in June, and continues to unfold along the Mandakini and the Alaknanda rivers, has implications for more of Asia and the rest of the world. A fourth dam under construction higher up the river was completely pulverized and washed away. Reinforcement bars, bent like wind-whipped wheat, form a tangled thatch of steel at the base of two broken support columns. Another was damaged by silt from the flood tide that poured into its powerhouse and fouled generating turbines.Ī third dam under construction was seriously battered by the Mandakini’s flood waters and the boulders it pushed along at the speed of a livestock stampede. One was buried under boulders and rubble on the upper Alaknanda. There are – or were – 15 operating projects in Uttarakhand before the flood. India already has 176 operating hydro projects that account for a bit less than 20 percent of the country’s electrical generating capacity. It’s the latter that prompted this trip to the Himalayas, where India says it wants to build the bulk of the 292 new hydroelectric power projects that are either under construction or proposed. This year we want to dig deeper into India’s coal production and consumption cycle, its solar and wind sectors, and its ambitious hydro-electric development program. Last year in Choke Point: India I reported on India’s cycle of risk involving surplus grain production in western states and rising coal production in the east. Over the last three years we’ve collaborated on our Global Choke Point project to understand how nations are responding to the resource confrontation that now defines so much of our economy and our global condition: the rising demand for energy and food in an era of diminishing freshwater reserves. I’m here on assignment for Circle of Blue, and our partner, the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum. I’m back in India for a month, just as I was at this time in 2012. Dozens of one-way-in, one-way-out towns and several larger cities were cut off for weeks, supplied with food and fuel by the Indian army. Entire sides of mountains slid into rivers, and with them came whole sections of mountain highways. On June 16 and 17 the mountains unleashed such fury that four towns on two rivers – the Mandakini and the Alaknanda – were washed away. These are the principle metaphors in the Himalayas. Steep mountains fast moving water active towns. I’d come to understand the consequences of a flood in June that, according to researchers at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, trapped and killed as many as 30,000 Hindu pilgrims during days of terror.
#The innkeepers torrent driver#
The current poured over gravel and boulders, the sound of it rising out of the tight valley like a beast’s heavy breathing.įor five long days I traversed this region of the Himalayas in the company of Dhruv Malhotra, a young New Delhi-based photographer, and Vinod, a professional driver raised in the hills.
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The lower slopes, terraced by generations, dove to the fast-moving Mandakini River. And at dawn we awoke to strong black coffee and the sun lighting the 21,000-foot Sumeru summit, turning the rock and snow from pink, to orange, to white. The innkeeper, anxious for guests in a travel economy that came to a standstill in mid-June, cooked dal and nan bread for dinner and then showed us to a room that was unlit and unheated. We made the crossing at night from Chamoli, reaching Okund, a Himalayan foothill town after dark.