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Villagers say the proposed Parandur airport site comprises 27% water bodies that store floodwaters protecting Chennai from flooding.

WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because whoever controls the dams upstream controls the water, food and electricity of everyone downstream — and India's suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty shows river flows are now being used as a weapon between nuclear-armed neighbors.

Part of the monitored dynamic Global Water Security · VUCA INDEX 59/100

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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 7

livemint.com — The runway and the roots: How a 1,000-year-old village fought a ₹27,400 crore a

"As much as 27% of the area chosen comprised water bodies. The government saw that as a boon as it obviated the need for acquiring land."

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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from livemint.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 8.

Extracted JUL 7; approved JUL 8 at 0.50.