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First Mesopotamia Water Forum highlights water as both source of conflict, tool for peace
Last week, I had the privilege to attend the Mesopotamia Water Forum at the University of Sulaimani in the Kurdistan...
10 Things You Should Know About Africa’s Largest Dam
Men at work on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Photo by Jacey Fortin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)],...
RIP Aaron Sanger, Advocate for Patagonia’s Rivers
It is with great sadness we share the news that our friend and former Patagonia Campaign Director, Aaron Sanger, has...
Lake Chad's Water Crisis | The New Yorker
This letter will appear in the New Yorker’s January 15, 2018 print edition. Lake Chad, which was once as large...
Is Our New Environment Minister Anti-Large Dams?
The author, Shripad Dharmadhikary, with Medha Patkar when he was an activist with the Narmada Bachao Andolan or Save the...
Mr. Prime Minister: Save the Wetlands of India
With an enduring drought ravaging many parts of the country, last month the Prime Minister waxed eloquent on the need...
Setting the World Bank President Straight on Large Dams
World Bank President Jim Kim On April 6, World Bank President Jim Kim addressed the Union Theological Seminary in New...
No New Projects: China’s Degraded Yangtze River Needs Protection, Not Construction, President Xi Jinping Says | South China Morning Post
This article originally appeared in the South China Morning Post on January 11, 2016. Environmental rehabilitation declared major focus for the...
Bad Student: Has the World Bank Learned Its Lessons?
Last week, I attended the World Bank meetings in Lima to highlight the World Bank’s checkered history with financing large...
No Need to Cut the Planet's Arteries to Save Her Lungs
International Rivers welcomes today’s U.S.-China Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change. We salute the increased focus on phasing out fossil...