Disastrous Dams

Kaushal Kishore| Twitter @mrkkjhaAfter the Surat flood in August 2006, The New York Times reported, ‘With water brimming well past the permitted levels at the 350 foot Ukai Dam, according to official records, and the skies showing no sign of relief, the engineers apparently threw open the reservoir’s twenty-one sluice gates. Water then did what