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Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate Resilience
Healthy, flowing rivers are the lifelines of our planet. They provide people with water, food, medicines, building materials, land-replenishing silts,...
A Tale of Two Dams: Comparing Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance to Hoover
Hoover Dam’s low water exposes a “bathtub ring” Once upon a time, massive dams were built on the US West’s...
Why has the Nile River Become a Battleground?
The Nile in Egypt: Lifeline in a desert. (NASA) This week, Ethiopia announced it was diverting the flow of the...
Do Not Pass Go: The Failed Promise of Fish Ladders
From March 2013 World Rivers Review New research reveals that fish-passage facilities at US Atlantic Coast mainstem dams don’t work...
Love Your River - A Valentine's Story
A photo taken along side the Zambezi River on a trip to Mozambique in 2007. Lori Pottinger It goes without...
Ethiopia Water Grabs: Creating 'East Africa's Aral Sea'?
A version of this originally appeared on Huffington Post. Lake Turkana from the air. The destruction of the Aral Sea...
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...
Bay Area Screenings of "The New Environmentalists"
Lake Turkana. Photo: John Antonelli San Francisco Bay Area residents will have an opportunity to view “The New Environmentalists,” a...
Too Big Not to Fail: India Blackouts Highlight Need for Change
From September 2012 World Rivers Review The world’s biggest power outage, which struck northern and eastern India over two days...
Community Energy: A Powerful Force
From September 2012 World Rivers Review The 2011 launch of Australia’s first community wind project, the Hepburn Wind Project, was...