Endangered Waters - Greenpeace

Contents
List of tables
List of figures
Executive summary
1. Introduction
2. The thirst for thermal power
2.1 Consumption of water by coal power plants
2.1.2 Factors affecting water consumption
2.1.3 How much water is consumed?
2.2 India’s thermal power boom
2.2.1 Encouraging private investment
2.3 Clusters of power plants
2.4 The Draft National Water Policy
3. Water conflict: coal plants vs. agriculture
3.1 Vidarbha in context
3.2 Seventy-one thermal power plants in Vidarbha
3.2.2 Low water efficiency
3.3 Development and irrigation backlogs in Vidarbha
3.4 Farmer suicides and relief packages
3.5 Maharashtra water policy and the diversion of irrigation water
4. Water availability in river Wardha: new study by IIT Delhi
4.1 Weather and land data
4.2 Flow measurements
4.3 Virgin, present and future scenarios
4.4 Results of the study
5. Case studies from Amravati district, Maharashtra
6. Risks for investors and national energy security
6.1 Physical water risk
6.2 Regulatory risk
6.3 Political risk
6.4 Risk to reputation
7. A twin solution to water and climate crises: the Energy [R]evolution scenario
8. Recommendations and demands
9. References
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