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This article by Richard Bissell, Shekhar Singh and Herrmann Warth was published in 2001 in the German magazine E&Z. The authors were indepedent monitors, chosen by the German govermnent to assess the social and environmental impacts of the planned Maheshwar dam, for which the German government had given an export credit guarantee in 1997. This article, in German, summarizes the findings of their assessment.