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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...
Hydro Industry Shuts Out Critical Voices
Apiaká indigenous activist in BrazilPhoto: Brent Millikan The international hydropower industry is meeting in Ethiopia for their big Africa 2013...
How Chinese Loans Could Fuel Regional Conflict in East Africa
Pokot cattle herder in Northern Kenya. Alison M. Jones for www.nowater-nolife.org China has made great efforts to support poverty reduction...
Gibe III's Impacts on Lake Turkana
East Africa’s “Aral Sea” in the Making? “If Ethiopia completes the Gibe III Dam and continues to press ahead with...
Ethiopian Dam Threatens to Turn Lake Turkana into "East Africa's Aral Sea"
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ethiopian Dam and Irrigation Projects Threaten to Turn Kenya’s Lake Turkana into “East Africa’s Aral Sea” New...
World Heritage Committee Fails to Protect Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana fisherman. Photo: International Rivers Over a dozen World Heritage Sites threatened by planned or existing dams were reviewed...
World Bank Approves Power Line to Gibe III Dam
These women are some of the thousands of Omo Valley people who will be affected by Gibe III Dam. Photo:...
Keeping the Conservation Promise
Dassanach elder in the Omo Valley World Heritage Site. Photo by Jane Baldwin, http://www.janebaldwin.com What started as an international effort...
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...
The River Provides for Us: One Woman's Story
From March 2011 World Rivers Review More than 500,000 indigenous people in two countries are threatened by the construction of...