Adan River
The Adan River is a river in India and a principal tributary of the Painganga River.
Statistics
The river flows from Long 770.22’ Lat 200.17’ to long 780.21’ Lat 190.9’.
The length of this river is 209.21 km.
The valley of Adan is from 10 km to 22 km wide.
The river is 210 km long.
Geography
The Adan River rises in the Washim district of Maharashtra and flows through a curve, north, east and south, and meets the Painganga River. The Arunavati river unites with the Adan at about 13 kilometers before it joins the Painganga. The river ceases to flow in the summer, though pools are left in the latter part of its course (Heda N. 2007).
Dams have been built on the Adan; one at its origin near Sonala village and other near Karanja Lad city both in Washim district. The river then flows through scrub land and a degraded type of dry deciduous forest with extensive agriculture (Heda N. 2007).
Adan Dam was built in 1977 near Karanja Lad, Washim district.
Problems due to dam
There are lot of dimensions to the problem created by dam and can be categorized into following categories.
