Class 10 Geography Chapter 3
Water Resources
Important Questions

Explanation:
The new social movements are the result of multipurpose projects and large dams as follows:
1. Narmada Bachao Andolan and Tehri Dam Andolan are the results of these multipurpose projects.
2. Resistance to these projects has primarily been due to the large-scale displacement of local communities. Local people often had to give up their land, livelihood and their meagre access and control over resources for the greater good of the nation.
3. Irrigation has changed the cropping pattern of many regions with farmers shifting to intensive and commercial crops. This has great ecological consequences like salinization of the soil.
4. It has transformed the social landscape i.e., increasing the social gap between the rich landowners and the landless poor.
5. The dams also created the conflict between people wanting different uses and benefits from the same water resources. In Gujarat, the Sabarmati basin farmers were agitated and rioted over the higher priority given to water supply in urban areas, particularly during the droughts. Interstate water disputes have become popular related to sharing of the costs and benefits of the multi-purpose project.