In the Media

A look at the role Chinese companies are playing in building dams in the Amazon. Please note: This article is in Portuguese.

Tensions rise in Southeast Asia, as drought-stricken Thailand pumps water from the Mekong River without consulting Mekong River Commission members Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam.

As Arab financiers met in Khartoum, activists protested against support from Saudi Arabia for proposed destructive dams on the Nile in Northern Sudan. Read this story from the Sudan Tribune.

The committee that opposes the building of the Dal Dam at the Nile River has called on all Sudanese to unite in opposition to the construction plans, which would displace thousands and flood valuable archaeological sites.

This article originally appeared in International Water Power & Dam Construction in November 2015. Click here to see the print version: Working Together for a Benchmark Report - Water Power Magazine. For the past seven years, International Rivers has been engaged in an ongoing dialogue with Chinese state-owned hydropower enterprises. This unlikely relationship between an environmental advocacy organization and hydropower monoliths is built on openness and transparency, and has helped the companies to make decisions on difficult projects. International Rivers has supplied information to

For years, government officials have planned to build a series of 13 dams along the Nu River to generate electricity. Marketplace looks at what such development would look like on the banks of this remarkable river.

Africa's leading power journal, a trusted knowledge source for African utilities and their partners across the continent, conducted an exclusive, wide-ranging conversation with our Rudo Sanyanga about water, energy, climate change and Africa's future.

South Africa's Business Day chronicles the endless delays of the much-hyped Inga 3 Dam on the Congo.

The Thai government’s planned diversion of billions of cubic meters of water from the Mekong River, described last week by a Thai Ministry of Water Resources representative as being as far as two years away, has already begun.

Residents affected by the Xayaburi Dam living in eight provinces along the Mekong River appealed to the Administrative Court Monday against five Thai government agencies that backed the building of the dam.