What is multipurpose river valley project?

Question

What is multipurpose river valley project?

Answer 1

That would be a river valley project with a number of different purposes.  For example, perhaps it might have to do with power generation, drinking water and recreation.  As the water flows into a valley its power could be harnesed.  It could then be stored in an artificial lake for drinking water for the nearby city.  Meanwhile, the nearby citizens could also have somewhere to go for a swim.

Answer 2

Multipurpose project is one which has more than one use it has many uses like

for agriculture

encourages tourism

encourages fishing

controls flood etc.

Answer 3

To find information on the Narmada river valley project, go to the internet and www.google.com and put in the Narmada Bachao Andolan.  This organization helps both displaced people and the environmental issues created by the project.

The role of multipurpose project is first and formost the control of flooding but also:

1) provides water for use for human consumption

2) power generation

3) industrial uses

4) agricultural uses

5) improved transportation and water control

6) lake fisheries

7) recreation

The disadvantages:

1) displaces people

2) damages or destroys cultural sites

3) eliminates fertile bottom lands used for agriculture

4) damaged riverine and estuary fisheries

5) the lake silts up and loses value over time

6) the fertilizer needed for growing crops uses a lot of the energy produced by the dam when the river flooded provided natural fertilizer

7) polution of the water from industry and the farms

many others