Narmada River
In 1990, Amte left Anandwan for a while to live along the Narmada River and joined "Narmada Bachao Andolan" ("Save Narmada") movement one of whose popular leaders was Medha Patkar, which fought against both unjust displacement of local inhabitants and damage to the environment due to the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river.