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Here We Go Again
From September 2013 World Rivers Review A dozen years after the World Bank-backed World Commission on Dams (WCD) issued what...
World Bank Returns to Big Dams
A 1990s Washington D.C. protest against the World Bank’s role funding Big Dams. From September 2013 World Rivers Review The...
Public Comments on Official HSAP Assessments
Official Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol (HSAP) assessments must be posted publicly on the HSAP website, and a 60-day period must...
Why the World Bank Shies Away From Energy Efficiency
Wikimedia Commons Decentralized renewable energy projects are highly effective at reducing energy poverty. Energy conservation and efficiency improvements are the...
Dams Lite?
Published in World Rivers Review August 2001 Run-of-River Projects No Panacea Are huge reservoirs a thing of the past? Today,...
Honoring Glenn Switkes
When I first started at International Rivers almost a year ago, I could feel the passion that staff had for...
Multilateral Development Banks: Projects to Watch
International Rivers has begun a new quarterly blog that highlights dam projects to watch out for in the investment pipelines...
World Heritage Committee Decisions in 2013
Below are summaries of all the decisions made on dam-threatened World Heritage Sites that were discussed at this year’s 37th...
In the Archives: Quarterly MDB Updates
Quarterly reports from 2008 – 2012: March – August 2008 September – November 2008 December 2008 – February 2009 March...
The World Bank is Bringing Back Big, Bad Dams
Originally published in The Guardian, Environment Blog Kariba Dam on the Zambezi RiverBy Alamy The big, bad dams of past...