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Pipola

Pipola proper noun: a village in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India that lost its source of water due to the construction of the Tehri Dam.

Proper noun

Pipola

  1. A village in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India that lost its source of water due to the construction of the Tehri Dam.
    • Since the dam (Tehri) was completed in 2006 the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up.2011 August, Subhajyoti Das, “Cleaning of the Ganga”, in Journal of the Geological Society of India, volume 78, number 124
    • In one instance, a natural spring that fed the nearby village of Pipola dried up, forcing residents to fetch water from wells in a neighboring village, while other villagers simply fled to other neighboring villages to live.2013, David L. Feldman, Water, →ISBN

Questions about Pipola

What does Pipola mean?
Pipola means a village in Tehri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India that lost its source of water due to the construction of the Tehri Dam.
What part of speech is Pipola?
Pipola is a proper noun.

Words near Pipola in the dictionary

  1. pipless
  2. pipobroman
  3. pipofezine
  4. pipoid
  5. pipoids
  6. Pipola
  7. piposulfan
  8. pipotiazine
  9. pipoxizine
  10. PIPP
  11. Pippa

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