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A Climate-Safe “Green Economy” Protects Rivers, Rejects Destructive Dams
From June 2012 World Rivers Review The twentieth anniversary of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, comes at...
Our Rivers Feed Millions
From June 2012 World Rivers Review River systems support the Earth’s highest biological diversity – and the most intense human...
Tropical Dams Dispel Clean Energy Myth
Dead trees in the Petit Saut reservoir, French Guiana Tropical reservoirs are a “methane factory, continuously removing carbon from the...
World Bank to Fund Gibe III Dam through the Backdoor?
Indigenous people affected by Gibe III. Alison M. Jones for www.nowater-nolife.org Some projects are so destructive that no reputable actors...
NGO letter to the World Bank regarding the Ethiopia-Kenya transmission line
Letter written by a coalition of NGOs to the World Bank on May 21, 2012, raising concerns regarding the Ethiopia-Kenya...
World Bank Needs to Make Infrastructure Work for the Poor
Kikwit is a town of almost one million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Its inhabitants have no...
Comments on Grid Interconnection Methodology Between Kenya and Ethiopia
Dear Methodology Panel members, As an expert reviewer for two previous versions of this methodology I recommend that those methodologies...
May Day for Rivers
At the source of the uMngeni, photo by DUCT “May Day” is an international distress signal for ships at sea....
Lori Pottinger Interviewed about Ethiopian Dam Building
An interview conducted with Lori Pottinger in Washington, D.C. on May 1, 2012 about the impacts of dam building in...
River Activists Take Goldman Prize
Ikal speaking to a community near Lake TurkanaPhoto courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize Today is a momentous day for...