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Friday, June 21, 2013
Experts argue rampant development and poor disaster planning has exacerbated flood damage, as a massive rescue operation is under way to reach survivors.
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
Legislators and congressional candidates gathered in Santiago’s former Congress building Monday to pledge their support for clean energy alternatives to major hydroelectric dam projects in...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The failed fish ladder at Pak Mun Dam. Photo by David Blake From World Rivers Review June 2013 Decades after several large dams were built in the lower Mun River Basin in northeastern...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
From June 2013 World Rivers Review The Malaysian state of Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo, is rich with tropical forests bisected by powerful rivers. Five years ago, Sarawak’s...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The top quarter of Glines Canyon Dam was removed from the Elwha River with a hydraulic hammer on a barge anchored upstream of the dam. Photo by National Park Service, courtesy of Lower...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
From World Rivers Review June 2013 More than half of the rivers previously thought to exist in China appear to be missing, according to China’s "First National Water Census Bulletin"...
Audio, In the Media
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Friday, June 7, 2013
The Mekong River feeds millions Voices From Other Lands, a program of China Radio International that features the stories of foreign nationals working in China, spoke with International...
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Monday, June 10, 2013
From World Rivers Review June 2013 According to mainstream international financial institutions, foreign aid agencies, and national government planners in Laos, the way to lift up...
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Brent Blackwelder in action. Photo by Friends of Earth From June 2013 World Rivers Review Brent Blackwelder is an icon in the US environmental movement. If his lifelong efforts to...
In the Media
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Egypt will demand Ethiopia stop building a dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, a senior government aide said on Wednesday, ramping up a confrontation over the project that Egypt...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013
The combination of a strong, rising China and economic stagnation in Europe and America is making the West increasingly uncomfortable. While China is not taking over the world militarily,...
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Friday, May 31, 2013
In the United States, big hydropower projects like the Hoover Dam are things of the past. But big dams are a booming business in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where countries are eagerly...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
It’s another standoff in the Amazon, and it could get very ugly very fast. On Monday, 170 indigenous people armed with bows and arrows from the Xingu River region again occupied a work site...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world's largest set of dams has moved closer, with the World Bank and other financial institutions expected to offer finance and South...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
The world hydroelectric industry's decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and native peoples is drawing bitter fire from environmental and tribal groups.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Activists in Sarawak, one of Malaysia's poorest states, have denounced local government plans to build 12 hydro-power dams, which they say is an environmental disaster in the making that...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Devastating water shortages are putting a brake on economic growth and stirring political discontent but Beijing's high-spending responses to the problem have triggered widespread criticism...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Story from Washington Post. The World Bank is making a major push to develop large-scale hydropower projects around the globe, something it had all but abandoned a decade ago but now sees...
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
The Nu's days as one of the region's last free-flowing rivers are dwindling. The Chinese government stunned environmentalists this year by reviving plans to build a series of hydropower...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days?
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Since the Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam commenced commercial operations in 2010, the World Bank and other proponents of the multi-billion dollar power project have trumpeted it as an economic...
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Friday, April 5, 2013
In Chile, the defense of Patagonia against plans for dams like HidroAysén has marked a before and and after in political campaigns and environmental struggles. Seventy-five percent of...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Munduruku indigenous community in Pará state say they have been betrayed by the authorities, who are pushing ahead with plans to build a cascade of hydropower plants on the Tapajós...
In the Media
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international finance watchdogs are calling on the U.S. government to support calls for the World Bank to step back from a new...
In the Media
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Friday, March 15, 2013
About 2,000 internally displaced people and villagers from the Wei Gyi area gathered yesterday at Ei Htu Hta Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on the Salween riverbank to mark the...
Audio, In the Media
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Audio originally posted by KALW. In recognition of the International Day of Action for Rivers, NPR station KALW hosted International Rivers' Patagonia Coordinator Kate Ross on the...
In the Media
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Through her own personal journey towards activism, Pianporn Deetes urges fellow Thais to help protect the natural resources in neighboring resource-rich countries, such as Laos, Cambodia...
In the Media
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Voice of America interviews Katy Yan (International Rivers), Judith Schapiro (American University) and Kevin Tu (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) on the debate around dam plans...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
When it is completed in 2015, the Jirau hydroelectric dam will span five miles across the Madeira River, feature more giant turbines than any other dam in the world and hold as much...
In the Media
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Friday, February 8, 2013
In 1975, after a period of rapid dam development, a perfect storm of factors came together to topple Henan Province's Banqiao Dam and kill an estimated 171,000 people. Today, on the cusp of...
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