United Nations University-Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has released a report titled \u201cAgeing Water Storage Infrastructure: An Emerging Global Risk\u201d. The report <\/span>provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the ageing of large dams.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the report, four Asian countries – China, Japan, India and South Korea – contribute to 55% of dams across the world and the majority of these dams are approaching the 50-year limit.<\/span><\/p>\n The<\/span> Mullaperiyar dam<\/span><\/a> in Kerala was built on the Periyar river in 1895.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The dam is located in a seismically active area, making it prone to earthquakes. The intended lifespan of the dam is 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n A minor earthquake caused cracks in the dam in 1979, and in 2011, more cracks appeared in the dam due to seismic activity. It warns that in case of a catastrophe, 3.5 million people would be in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n What are the steps taken by the Indian Government to protect Mullaperiyar Dam?<\/b><\/p>\n In 1979, Central Water Commission(CWC) had reported some distress conditions in the Mullaperiyar dam. Thereafter, some emergency and short term measures were completed by the Government of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2014, the Empowered Committee set up by the Supreme Court concluded that the Mullaperiyar dam was safe in all respects, viz., hydrologically, structurally and seismically.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2021, the World Bank-funded Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP)<\/a>, carried out dam safety inspections for 28 dam projects of Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n Note:<\/b> Commissioning or decommissioning of dams owned by State Governments is exclusively within the purview of the dam owning State.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201c<\/b>UN REPORT ON MULLAPERIYAR DAM<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>PIB <\/b>on<\/span> 2nd December 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? United Nations University-Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has released a report titled \u201cAgeing Water Storage Infrastructure: An Emerging Global Risk\u201d. The report provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the ageing of large dams. According to the report, four Asian countries – China, Japan, India and… Continue reading UN REPORT ON MULLAPERIYAR DAM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[8729,299,3590],"class_list":["post-150614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-dams","tag-infrastructure","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What does the report say on Mullaperiyar Dam?<\/b><\/h5>\n