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Preguntas al gobierno brasilero sobre los emprendimientos hidroelectricos de Jirau y Santo Antonio

Friday, August 31, 2007
cuestiones tecnicas enviadas por el gobierno boliviano al gobierno brasileño sobre los impactos de las represas en el río Madeira en territorio boliviano

Brasil decide sobre sus represas

Saturday, July 14, 2007
Brasil seguirá adelante con la construcción de dos represas hidroeléctricas en el río Madeira, en la región amazónica, a pesar de las preocupaciones de Bolivia sobre el impacto ambiental que pueda llegar a tener este proyecto, de US$11.600 millones, en la frontera. El canciller brasileño, Celso Amorim, en una carta su homólogo boliviano, David Choquehuanca, invitó a las autoridades de La Paz a participar en conversaciones bilaterales a fin de mes. El encuentro tendría como objetivo responder todas las dudas que pueda haber. El ministro de Exteriores brasileño dejó claro que el p

Represa Chixoy, Guatemala

Durante más de 20 años, las comunidades afectadas por la Represa Chixoy han exigido las indemnizaciones por los daños y perjuicios causados por el proyecto, construido durante la dictadura militar más represiva de Guatemala. La International Rivers y el Centro Legal para la Defensa Ambiental han colaborado para conseguir la representación pro–bono del bufete jurídico estadounidense de Holland y Knight a las Comunidades en esta mesa de negociaciones.

Mesoamerica

Hundreds of large dams are being planned, with very little transparency, threatening to destroy the rivers of Central America and Mexico, along with the economies of communities that rely on these rivers for their livelihood. The dams would impact fish stocks and coastal ecosystems, wetlands and mangroves that contain many plant and animal species, some still undiscovered.

Dams, Rivers and People in 2006: The Year in Review

By Peter Bosshard, Policy Director, IRN Excerpted from Before the Deluge: Coping with in a Changing Climate Lake Victoria drained by dams: The world’s second larg- est lake was at record low levels in 2006, affecting millions of people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. A report by an inde- pendent hydrologist published by IRN in February revealed that the operation of two existing dams was the main reason for the declining water levels. The dam primarily responsible for the decline was built by the World Bank, which used a highly opti- mistic and much-contested estimate of how much water woul

Before the Deluge: Intro and Key Messages

Excerpted from Before the Deluge: Coping with Floods in a Changing ClimateFloods are the most destructive, most frequent and most costly natural disasters on earth. While harmful floods have happened throughout human history, flood damages have soared in recent decades, despite the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars on flood control structures. This is partly because global warming is causing more severe storms, and partly because of growing populations and economic activity on floodplains. It is also because flood control technologies and approaches often prove counterproductive.

Citizens’ Guide to the WCD

Thursday, March 7, 2002
This is International Rivers' guide on how to use the World Commission on Dams report in their struggles for justice and human rights. This 59–page booklet provides background on the formation of the WCD, a detailed summary of the WCD’s findings and recommendations, and responses from NGOs, institutions and governments to the report. Most importantly, the guide provides suggestions for how activists can use the report to stop destructive development projects and promote better alternatives. Excerpts from the Introduction to the Citizens’ Guide to the World Commission on Dams There is goo

Chixoy Dam Legacy Issues Study

Thursday, March 17, 2005
Volume 1: Exectutive Summary: Consequential Damages and Reparations: Recommendations for Remedy. Volume 2: Document Review and Chronology of Relevant Actions and Events. Volume 3: Consequential Damage Assessment of Chixoy River Basin Communities. Volume 4 (chapters 1-3): Social Investigation of the Communities Affected by the Chixoy Dam. Chapters 1-3: Backround | Methodology | ResultsChapter 4: Community of Agua BlancaChapter 5: Community of La CampanaChapter 6: Chicruz VillageChapter 7: Colony el NaranjoChapter 8: Resettlement of PacuxChapter 9: Panquix VillageChapter 10: Río Negro VillageCh

The Amazon Under Threat: Damming The Madeira

Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Amazon is under threat. The Brazilian government is planning to build two massive dams on one of the Amazon’s most important tributaries, the Madeira River. The projects would threaten the river’s unique biodiversity, destroying habitat for fish, dolphins, parrots and a range of mammal species, and would affect the land and livelihoods of thousands of river bank dwellers and indigenous people.

Yacyretá Dam

Home affected by flooding from Yacyretá
Yacyretá Dam on the Paraná River has been under construction since 1979. A battle has raged to increase the height of the reservoir, thus putting 80,000 people in danger of being flooded out. Investigations by the World Bank and Inter–American Development Bank have shown that authorities of the bi–national company EBY are unable to handle the devastating social dislocation that raising the reservoir would cause. Yacyretá is a textbook study in corruption, inefficiency, poor planning, and lack of respect for human rights and the environment. The project involves two governments and the W

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