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Students Washed Away by Manmade Flood in India
In early June, a group of nearly fifty visiting engineering students walked down to the Beas River in the Indian...
Guest Blog – Big Rivers, Big Ideas at River Rally 2014
Guest Blog by Patrick J. Lynch, the International Director for the Futaleufú Riverkeeper, based in Chilean Patagonia. His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa...
Experts Recommend Scrapping Dams in Light of 2013 India Floods
From June 2014 World Rivers Review Less than a year after a furious Himalayan flood claimed thousands of lives and...
Life-Giving Deltas Starved by Dams
The Indus Delta – here at Keti Bandar – is being eroded by the sea. Emily Woodhouse The deltas of...
India’s Run-of-River Hydro: Ill-Defined, Under-Studied – and Growing at a Fast Clip
From March 2014 World Rivers Review Run-of-river projects are often portrayed as relatively benign alternatives to large-reservoir dam projects, as...
Ecology, The Science of Last Resort
The upper riparian on a river often wears a hegemonic hard hat and seeks to appropriate every drop of water...
Building Bridges
Building Bridges: Community-Based Renewable Energy Dense forest, bauxite red earth, and clear streams. A pre-sunrise orchestra of invisible birds...
Addressing the Global Power Outage
Originally published in The Moscow Times on December 15, 2013 As you read this, a power outage is affecting much...
Boiled Eggs, Tea and a Fait Accompli
We arrived at Chadong village and went straight to the village headman’s home, on higher ground. It was half 10...
The Happiest Place on Earth? The Story of Culture and Rivers in Bhutan
6:00 – 8:30 pmSpeaking program at 7:00 pmHome of Leslie and Jacques Leslie, Mill Valley, California “Bhutan is the no-hunting,...