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  • Miners Plunder Tamil Nadu’s Sands, Dropping Some Rivers by 50 Feet

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    Choke Point  //  May 24, 2017  //  By Sibi Arasu
    Oxcart

    The seventh in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    CHENNIMALAI, India – There is river and beach sand aplenty in Tamil Nadu. At 130,000 square kilometers (50,200 square miles), the state is about the same size as Nicaragua and has 95 rivers with sandy bottoms and a long Bay of Bengal shoreline. Or did. For almost all of its thousand-year history, the state of Tamil Nadu took all that sand for granted. No longer.

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  • A Torrent of Water and Concrete Imperil Chennai’s IT Boom

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    Choke Point  //  April 24, 2017  //  By Sibi Arasu
    G-Debhashis

    The third in a series of reports by Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center on the global implications of water, energy, and food challenges in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

    CHENNAI, India – Almost a decade ago, when the first of Chennai’s bleach-white IT office buildings replaced coconut groves along the Bay of Bengal south of the city center, leaders hailed the potential for a new wave of clean jobs. Nine years later, it is clear that planners did not fully anticipate the consequences.

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