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While we are pondering about how to manage our floods within city, China is setting up/set up various projects across the Yellow River and digitally monitoring the flood level, pollution, sedimentation and other aspects across the total river and ensuring that the flow of water is uniform or atleast as per the expectation. The level of automation and digitization has apparently allowed better flow through the Yellow River, and nowadays the Yellow River is called as the digital River!! But, China in its ambition to control vast resources and in due course control nature may yield results un fathomed ever. Through its South-North water transmission corridor, it is planning to tap into the precious waters of the Tibetan Peninsula ( In 2008, I wrote a blog stating China's ambition to Tibet's waters..!!! ). The scale of the project leaves too many questions un-answered. I was just wondering about the planning that has to go into executing projects of this scale. a) As I mentioned ea...

An engineering marvel is created. Well thought about, well planned, well designed, well executed...well??? It cost $24 bn to build the World’s largest Hydro power project - The Three Gorges Dam by China. It was completed well before the schedule. It provides 18400 MW of electricity which is unfathomable by many other Hydro power projects. Its back waters created a reservoir of water which is as big as UK in length. Now, the flip side..It displaced half a million population and thounsads of towns. The weight of the water stored in the reservoir is only adding to the woes of the land slides, tremors in and around the area. The river is getting more and more polluted since the 1.3 mile long concrete barrier diverted the migration of fish which otherwise would have preserved the sanctity of water in the river. Topping the charts are the facts that Central China, where the project is located is reeling under 50 year drought and that two of Southern China’s largest lakes have almost dried...

Was reading the book "Anthem"...Ayn Rand's first novel and her first narration of her philosophy of Objectivism. While Objectivism as a philosophy sounds really great and I would want to emulate it, the execution of the same across the society may not prove effective in the present situation. It sounds very utopian. Her novels have been more than an inspration to me. But at the same time I like the various ideologies in Communism and that of Regulated Capitalism. Did you ever wonder which ideology suits the present world? Hence I thought of comparing various philosophies proposed by certain great personnel. Name Duration Profession Pre-dominant Philosophy Karl Marx 1818-1883 Philosopher Communism Keyne 1883-1946 Economist Regulated Capitalism Ayn Rand 1905-1982 Author Objecti...