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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...
A Month in the Cradle of Humanity
Narissa Allibhai. Sustainable development researcher This is a guest blog by Narissa Allibhai, an African sustainable development researcher who undertook...
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...
Greater Study of Climate Change’s Impacts on Mekong Needed
From December 2014 World Rivers Review Climate change will result in many hydrological changes of relevance to hydropower generation in...
Nam Theun 2: The World Bank’s narrative of success falls apart
From December 2014 World Rivers Review “Nam Theun 2 confirmed my longstanding suspicion that the task of building a large...
Understanding the Impacts of China’s Upper Mekong Dams
From December 2014 World Rivers Review. China has built seven hydropower dams on the upper Mekong River (known as the...
Xekaman Dams and GMS Regional Interconnectivity Agenda Leading to Rights Violations
In November, international agencies representing several donor countries, alongside the United Nations Development Program, pledged to support poverty alleviation in...
Greed and Resistance in Sarawak’s Rainforest
Will dams flood out Sarawak’s indigenous cultures?Yvan Cohen/LightRocket Sarawak, the Malaysian province on the island of Borneo, has long been...