Top Down Development: Sardar Sarovar Dam Starter: Sort out these anagrams: lcalos srligueo itses trtyeiicecl Key words. Top-down development impacts Learning Objective. To be able to evaluate the impact of one large top-down project (Sardar Sarovar Dam) on different groups of people in a developing country..

Using page 242 of the Green text book. Explain how these groups benefit from the dam People in India’s urban areas Farmers in Western India (Gujarat, Maharastra, Rajastha and Madhya Pradesh) Explain how these groups lose out because of the dam Local villagers Local farmers Overall, do you think the dam is a good development project for India?

It benefits It creates problems for People in urban areas 3.5 billion litres of drinking water 1450 megawatts of electricity; providing cheap energy and thus creating jobs. Local villages 235 villages drowned; 320,000 forced to leave religious/historic sites of cultural importance lost can’t afford electricity earthquakes are more likely due to the large weight of water Farmers in Western India irrigates 1.8 million hectares of farmland, ensuring better growing conditions helps combat drought – which can cause £20bn worth of lost income each year Local farmers irrigation can increase soil salinity making the soil less usable daming the river stops annual floods which brought fertile sediment farmland submerged

For a top-down development project that you have studied, explain its benefits and problems (8 marks)