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<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-family:Arial">Alliance</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:
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<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">presents <o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br></span></i></div>
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River Linking Project (IRLP)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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<div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">The River Linking Project – who pays
and who gains<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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4pm-6pm<br>
Room 2-143, MIT<br>
<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street w:st="on">77 Mass Ave</st1:street>, <st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">The Indian Supreme Court in February of this year ordered
the Government of India to implement an ambitious project to link the major
rivers of the region in a “time-bound manner”.
This $150 billion project is to interconnect rivers to transfer water
from where it is deemed in “surplus” to where it is in “deficit”. The benefits of this project are doubtful
and the possible harm to the ecology and livelihood of millions in South Asia, including
lower riparian <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bangladesh</st1:country-region>,
are not being taken into account.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Please join us and members of the community to discuss the
project and its implications. There will
be brief presentations by members of the <st1:city w:st="on">Alliance</st1:city> on
different aspects of the IRLP, alternatives, and a discussion on what is to be
done.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Some Links on River Linking:<a href="file:///C:/Data/doc/nxk/Alliance/:%20%0bTehelka"><br>
Tehelka</a>, (http://tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=Ws230312noose.asp)
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<a href="http://www.southasiaalliance.org/tableOfContents/toc_riverLinking.htm">and more </a> http://www.southasiaalliance.org/tableOfContents/toc_riverLinking.htm)</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">Alliance</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"> for a Secular and Democratic South
Asia ( </span><a href="http://www.southasiaalliance.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%">www.southAsiaAlliance.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%"> )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:115%">South Asia</span></st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
line-height:115%"> Forum at MIT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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