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Damming the Zambezi for Aluminum: Proposed Dam a "Power Play" to Gain Control of Upstream Dam?
For a couple of weeks in late September, sooty plumes of black smoke billowed from the stacks of the Mozambique...
Pipe Dreams
The World Bank’s Failed Efforts to Restore Lives and Livelihoods of Dam-Affected People in Lesotho While the Lesotho Highlands Water...
Unresolved Issues on Bujagali
A recent letter to World Bank from coalition of 50 NGOs. From: ENGO-LOG C/O Box 29909, KAMPALA – UGANDA. To:...
International Rivers Comments on ADB Draft Environment Policy Working Paper, August 2001
International Rivers submitted the following answers to the questionnaire circulated by ADB to solicit comments on the Draft Environment Policy...
Evaluating the LHWP Against WCD Guidelines
Africa’s largest infrastructure project the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a massive, multi-dam scheme built to divert water from...
Planned Dams in Vietnam
This report, prepared in 2001, gives a brief overview of dams likely to move forward in Vietnam. 1. SON LA...
NGOs Tell OPIC to Reconsider Bujagali Dam
A June 2001 letter to US funder OPIC signed by 20 NGOs urging them to reject Bujagali Dam. Peter S....
NGO’ Tell World Bank Bujagali Dam Is "Too Flawed"
A letter signed from 20 NGOs to World Bank executive directors on the project’s outstanding problems. Franco Passacantando, Executive Director,...
Lower Kihansi Hydropower Project: An Evaluation of the Project Against World Commission on Dams Guidelines
In July 1995, the Government of Tanzania began construction of the 180-megawatt Lower Kihansi Hydropower Project (LKHP) in order to...
World Bank Reports Discloses Serious Environmental Damage from Tanzanian Dam
The Lower Kihansi hydropower project on the Kihansi River in Tanzania is causing significant environmental damage, a newly released World...