2013 Uttarakhand floods

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Why It’s Time to Reengineer Our Dams

Travellers with Indian Army personnel on a road damaged by water flooding out of the Alaknanda river in Uttarakhand, June 2013. Credit: diariocriticove/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Fighting Floods Is Hard but There Are Two Ways to Make It More Democratic