Dam collapses can have terrible social consequences 2. It is still in operation today. Five takeaways/learning objectives attendees will receive from this course: 1. No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History’s Deadliest Floods.
Join us on June 9, from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Eastern for The 1979 Machhu Dam Disaster: Social Origins and Social Consequences. References: (1) Sandesara, U., Wooten, T. (2011). The course will cover the technical causes of the dam failure, the managerial problems that allowed design flaws to go unchecked, and the many ways the flood upended lives in the Machhu River Valley. It originates at the Madla hills near Jasdan in Rajkot district and empties into the Little Rann of Kutch north of Morbi. Machhu Dam II was ultimately rebuilt with a spillway capacity of 872,000 cfs and was completed in 1989.
Prometheus Books) (2) Patel, Z. The Machhu Dam Disaster of 1979 in Gujarat. Machchu Dam 2 near Morbi Machchu, also known as Machhu, is a major river that flows northward through the Morbi district in Gujarat.