Singur Dam, Sangareddy: History, Location, River, Length, State
When Hyderabad’s water planners looked upstream on the Manjira River for a new drinking water source in the 1970s, the water they wanted was already entirely committed to agriculture — most of it flowing further downstream to feed the historic…
Getalsud Dam Ranchi: History, Location, River, Length, State
Ranchi’s water security doesn’t rest on a single dam — it depends on a working trio spread across the Subarnarekha River, and Getalsud Dam is the one carrying the heaviest industrial load. While nearby Dhurwa and Kanke dams handle drinking…
Tilaiya Dam, Koderma: History, Location, River, Length, State
When Jawaharlal Nehru personally inaugurated Tilaiya Dam on 21 February 1953, he wasn’t just opening a single reservoir — he was marking the completion of independent India’s first-ever multipurpose river valley project, built on a vision an…
Tighra Dam, Gwalior: History, Location, River, Length, State
Two years after Tighra Dam was first built, it failed catastrophically — a collapse that killed an estimated 1,000 people downstream and remains one of the deadliest dam disasters in Indian history. Rebuilt a decade later, the structure would go on to…
Thenmala Dam, Kollam: History, Location, River, Length, State
Long before “ecotourism” became a buzzword in Indian travel marketing, Thenmala had already claimed the title — becoming India’s first officially planned ecotourism destination in 1998, built around a reservoir where three separate…