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Water is one of the most indispensable natural assets. There can be no life without water; in fact, life began in water. Basic living organisms emerge from the water. Civilizations have sprung up along rivers, and they have also been wiped out by water-linked disasters.
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Annual Administrative Report from Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Manipur, March 2012.
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Ibid.
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Failed dams in Manipur? Any lessons learnt retrieved from https://cramanipur.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/failed-dams-in-manipur-any-lessons-learnt/.
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Report from Irrigation and Flood Control Department, Manipur, October 2008.
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Present Tensed, Future Expensive: Large Irrigation Projects in Northeast India retrieved from https://sandrp.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/present-tensed-future-expensive-large-irrigation-projects-in-northeast-india/.
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Letter to the Commissioner, IFCD from A. Ibocha Singh, Deputy Commissioner/Collector dated 5 July 2005.
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A patta is a legal document issued by the government in the name of the actual owner of a particular plot of land.
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Vualzong, L., Dawer, A., Haran, N.P. (2018). The Khuga Dam—A Case Study. In: Singh, A., Punia, M., Haran, N., Singh, T. (eds) Development and Disaster Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8485-0_14
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