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Beyond Dams: Options & Alternatives
By design, dams alter the natural flow regime, and with it virtually every aspect of a river ecosystem, including water...
The World Bank at 60: A Case of Institutional Amnesia?
NGO Report on the Implementation of the Infrastructure Action Plan Dear Executive Director, In July 2003, the Board of Directors...
Creating a True “Trickle-Down Economy”
Low-Cost Drip Systems Bring Income, Food Security to Rural Poor World Rivers Review, December 2003 Paul Polak thinks big and...
Assessing Options, Meeting Needs
A key “Strategic Priority” of the World Commission on Dams addressed the need to greatly improve the often secretive and...
Status Note on Hydro and the CDM. Prepared for COP 9, Milan
Large Hydro Still a Large Problem for the CDM As the CDM approval process nears the point at which the...
Gambling With People’s Lives
Report Counters World Bank’s "High–Risk / High–Reward Strategy",NGOs Predict Increased Conflict Around Risky World Bank Projects As World Bank representatives...
Lesotho Judge Convicts German Engineering Firm of Bribery Charges
The Lesotho High Court yesterday convicted Lahmeyer International, a German engineering consulting firm, of paying approximately US$550,000 in bribes to...
Status Note on Hydro and the CDM, May 2003
The Good, the Bad and the Dammed Ugly In October 2002, International Rivers and CDM Watch published “Damming the CDM:...