The latest issue of SANDRP's newsletter contains the following: Solar Power Boom Bihar Floods 2007: Some lessons for everyone Power Options: New Look Required 11th Five Year Plan: Why it may not achieve the targets SSP: Mounting costs, minimal benefits SSP drinking water scheme a flop: Congress Privatisation of Nira Deogarh Irrigation Project Questions over gross national water availability figures NEAA quashes Polavaram environmental clearance RBI asks banks to adopt environmental policies EAS asks for groundwater use details before clearance Hansi Butana: CWC criticised by Punjab If Army corps is reformed, should CWC spared? China scraps Tiger Leaping Gorge Dam after protests Responses: Glacial Disasters