CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the UN report In India, over 1, 115 large dams will be at roughly 50 years mark by 2025. The report also finds that India’s current dam construction rate is among the world’s highest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Q. Which organisation released a report titled ‘Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk’? Notes: The report, titled ‘Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk’ was compiled by United Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to a United Nations (UN) report “Ageing water infrastructure: An emerging global risk", over 1, 000 large dams in India will be roughly 50 years old in 2025 and such ageing embankments across the world pose a growing threat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Large dams have led to the extinction of many fish and other aquatic species, the disappearance of birds in floodplains, huge losses of forest, wetland and farmland, erosion of coastal deltas, and many other unmitigable impacts.