India can mitigate risks like Joshimath instead of embracing them
[ad_1] By Feroze Varun Gandhi On Dec 24, 2009, a tunnel boring machine drilling into the mountain on which Joshimath resides punctured an aquifer ~3km away from Selang village – this resulted in water being discharged at ~700-800 litres per second (enough to sustain the needs of 20-30 lakh people per day) (Upadhyay, Kavita, Jan…