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India Rivers Week (2014) Highlights
India Rivers Week was held November 24-27, 2014 at the WWF-India campus in New Delhi. A first of its kind...
Bhutan and its Development Dilemma
In November last year, International Rivers’ team in South Asia and the Legal Initiative for Forests & Environment (LIFE) organized...
PR – MRC Council Must Back Rhetoric With Action to Sustain the Mekong's Future
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunset on the Mekong River in Siphandone Bangkok, Thailand: On Thursday January 15th, the 21st meeting of...
PR – Human Rights Concerns Over Hydropower Development in Cambodia Brought to the UN
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A boat transports goods on the Sesan River in CambodiaInternational Rivers Phnom Penh, Cambodia: International and Cambodian...
Twelve Dams That Changed the World
The iconic Hoover Dam. Wikimedia commons Dams illustrate the brilliance and arrogance of human ingenuity. They generate one sixth of...
Headwater Extinctions: Hydropower Be the Death of Fish
“You can either be pro-environment or pro-development” is a futile binary statement that government officials often aim at people like...
PR – Turkana’s “Forgotten People” Call for Halt to Ethiopia’s Imminent Water Grabs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley, US: International Rivers is today publishing a report and video with voices from Lake Turkana, which...
Downstream Communities File Groundbreaking Complaint Over Don Sahong Dam
From December 2014 World Rivers Review Mr X*, a 55-year-old fisherman from Kratie Province in Cambodia, seemed overwhelmed at first, and...
Critical Assessment on the Mekong Region’s Power Development at Risk of Being Shelved
From December 2014 World Rivers Review In December 2013, a study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on “Ensuring...
Pak Mun Dam: A struggle of fishers, an epic of river protection
From December 2014 World Rivers Review Boats at the Pak Mun Dam “Mun” means life. The Mun River has always...