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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Article from The Irrawidy Online Burmese regime-friendly conglomerate Asia World is forcing many hundreds of villagers in northern Burma to abandon their homes and resettle elsewhere as it...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Bui Dam, now being built in Ghana with financial backing from China Exim Bank, is described by the project environmental assessment as having "minor" greenhouse gas impacts. In reality, it...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Article from The Nation A series of dams proposed for the Nam Ngum River basin in Laos would have a serious impact on the livelihood of tens of thousands people due to huge areas being...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
From December 2007 World Rivers ReviewEcuador is a watery wonderland. Although small (it is roughly the size of New Zealand), it is home to more than 2,000 rivers and streams, at least 17...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
From December 2007 World Rivers Review
This rainy season, a mushy mess is sliding down the Changuinola River Valley. Huge Volvo machines are tearing up old mountain roads, causing tons...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
I woke up not knowing what time it was, and not even sure where I was.
My watch still gave the time in Europe, and the room was unfamiliar.
Finally, it dawned on me: it was five in the...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
From December 2007 World Rivers Review Who could be against a project that provides energy to Uganda – a country with one of the lowest rates of electrification in the world and one of the...
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Saturday, December 15, 2007
From December 2007 World Rivers ReviewBeneath the booming factories and verdant fields of Northern China, groundwater supplies are rapidly drying up. The water table around Beijing drops...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Article from Bangkok Post The evidence is compelling that at this particular moment in Thai history, building new mega power plants is a tragic coupling of bad statistics and misguided...
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Monday, January 7, 2008
I was there to present the social and environmental impacts resulting from one such part-Norwegian supported and owned hydropower project in Laos met with staff of the state power utility...
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Monday, January 7, 2008
Article from Scandasia A Norwegian advocacy group, FIVAS, made a report claiming that the Theun-Hinboun Hydropower Project co-owned by the Lao government, a Thai company and Statkraft,...
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Monday, December 24, 2007
HANOI (AFP) - Energy-hungry Vietnam is planning to build a two-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Mekong river of Laos and to construct several other large hydropower projects in the...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
A Brazilian bishop who has been on hunger strike for more than three weeks has been admitted to hospital after he lost consciousness.Luiz Flavio Cappio has been fasting for 23 days in...
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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...
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This article by Ann-Kathrin Schneider first appeared in World Rivers Review in 2006. It describes a protest of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the proposed increase in the height of the...
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Friday, December 14, 2007
Opinion piece published in the Bangkok Post In September, officials from Thailand and Laos gathered with the World Bank at a High-Level Forum on Sustainable Hydropower Development to affirm...
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Monday, December 10, 2007
SAO PAULO, Brazil -A Brazilian consortium won an auction Monday to build and operate a major dam in the Amazon rain forest following a bidding process disrupted by protesters who claim the...
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Friday, December 7, 2007
Article from The Cambodia Daily It's a critical source of livelihood for hundreds of thousands of people in Cambodia, but the future health of the entire lower section of the Mekong...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Extreme Vulnerability to Climate Change Increases Pressure on Riversfrom World Rivers Review, Aug. 2006 by Lori Pottinger Africa has yet another huge burden to bear: it has been deemed “...
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Friday, November 30, 2007
A Aneel (Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica) informou nesta sexta-feira que o leilão da usina de Santo Antônio, a primeira no complexo do rio Madeira (RO), terá apenas três participantes...
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
They love to raft down the Futaleufú River and fish in the Baker. They travel around the planet, looking for arenas to challenge those mega-projects that threaten the environment. Aaron...
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Friday, November 23, 2007
French utility company Suez, Spain's Endesa and banks including Santander filed to bid for a major electricity project in Brazil's Amazon, the country's electricity regulator said on Friday...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Article from BBC NEWS Online For an Asian capital, Vientiane in the Lao People's Democratic Republic is a sleepy place.The pace of life in the former French colony is slow, and time often...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
BANGKOK (AFP) - The construction of six dams along the Mekong River could displace tens of thousands of people and endanger over a thousand aquatic species, environmental groups warned...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Article from The Nation, Bangkok's Independent Newspaper Environmentalists slammed the Mekong River Commission yesterday forfailing to protect the waterway. They called for higher moral...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
BANGKOK, Nov 14 (IPS) - The campaign to save South-east Asia's largest waterway from being blocked by a series of massive dams picked up pace this week, with activists accusing a regional...
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This article by Himanshu Thakkar, the Coordinator of the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People, was first published in "Before the Deluge" the 2007 Dams, Rivers and Peoples report...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Article from Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand: Six proposed dams on the Mekong River coulddisplace up to 75,000 villagers and harm hundreds of species like theendangered giant catfish and...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Article written by DPA, and reported in the Bangkok Post The Mekong River Commission (MRC) has failed to prevent six dam projects from moving ahead on the regional river despite unanswered...
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This article by Ann-Kathrin Schneider first appeared as an opinion piece in the Pakistani daily "The News" on November 12, 2007. It discusses World Bank president Zoellick's...
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