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DR Congo Waits on Funding for World's Largest Hydropower Project
This article originally appeared in The Guardian The dream of harnessing the mighty Congo with the world’s largest set of...
PR: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Site
Amazon indigenous leaders join protest demanding protection of World Heritage site in Turkey FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hasankeyf, Turkey: Representatives of...
At Sustainability Congress, Dam Builder Bars Civil Society from Dialogue
SAVE Rivers has protested against the Sarawak dams’ impacts on indigenous peoples.SAVE Rivers Sarawak Energy, state developer of the controversial...
Proposed Malaysia Dams Raise Transparency, Livelihood Fears
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists in Sarawak, one of Malaysia’s poorest states, have denounced local government plans to build...
World Bank Response to NGO Letter on Mega-Dams for Africa
Response by the World Bank to the NGO letter of May 15, 2013, raising concerns and asking questions about the...
AFP: Malaysia Hydropower Meeting to Open Amid Controversy
SARAWAK, MALAYSIA – The world hydroelectric industry’s decision to meet in a Malaysian state where dams have uprooted rainforests and...
PR: With Inga Dams, Donors Set to Repeat Past Failures
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Berkeley/Pretoria: The Congolese government will today announce plans to move forward with the Grand Inga Dam at a...
NGO Letter on the World Bank's Return to Mega-Dams in Africa
In May 2013, civil society organization and networks from Africa, Europe and the United States sent a letter to World...
Greenwashing Dams Factsheet
A dam industry effort threatens to greenwash dams and undermine the recommendations of the World Commission on Dams (WCD). The...
China: High and Dry
Originally published in The Financial Times Devastating water shortages are putting a brake on economic growth and stirring political discontent...