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Saving Tiger Leaping Gorge: A Reflection
Naxi farmers and guides. Joani Carpenter In 2006, farmers from a small village by China’s Jinsha River took seven hydropower...
Back to Blue: The Race to Salvage China’s Environment and Its Past
China’s economy is developing quickly – at great cost to the environment. But things are looking up now, as a...
The Impending Dam Disaster in the Himalayas | Scientific American
Originally published in Scientific American Sichuan earthquake. U.S. Geological Survey Earlier this year earthquakes in Nepal leveled thousands of buildings,...
Is China’s hydroelectric revolution as green as it sounds? | Engineering and Technology Magazine
Originally published in Engineering and Technology Magazine China is pursuing an ambitious programme of hydroelectric expansion, with a series of ‘mega-dams’...
China’s Global Dam Builders: Talking the Talk, Walking the Walk?
In recent years, the global hydropower market has changed dramatically. Once the province of Western firms, these days large new...
Letter to Industrial and Commercial Bank of China regarding to Gibe 3 project
Mr. Jiang Jianqing Chairman and Executive Director, ICBC No.55 FuXingMenNei Street, Xicheng District Beijing 100140, China May 13 2015 Concerns...
China Blocks Destructive Yangtze Dam
From April 2015 World Rivers Review China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has blocked construction on a controversial megadam that would...
It’s All About the Rivers: A Conversation with International Rivers’ Asia Teams
From April 2015 World Rivers Review For this final issue of WRR, we turned to some of our regional staff...
Xiaonanhai – The Controversial Dam on the Yangtze that Will Not be Built
Yangtze River, International Rivers The Chinese government has valued a river more than a dam. In a recent decision –...