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Mexican Dams Postponed
From World Rivers Review December 2009 For six years the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) dodged concerns by communities resisting...
How Dams Affect Water Supply
From World Rivers Review December 2009 Most rural Africans are directly dependent on surface water – rivers, wetlands, springs and...
Chinese Dam Under Fire, But Germany in the Hot Seat
From World Rivers Review December 2009 When a dam developer claims that 97% of the people it surveyed are satisfied...
The Wrong Climate for Big Dams
Why Africa Should Shun Hydropower Megaprojects From World Rivers Review December 2009 Africa is the least electrified place in the...
A Water Health Insurance Plan
From World Rivers Review December 2009 As far as water goes, climate change changes everything. Past experience of rainfall, snowfall,...
True Costs of Amazon Dam Revealed
From December 2009 World Rivers Review The true costs of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Project, planned for the Xingu River...
Thailand’s Commercial Banks’ Role in Financing Dams in Laos and the Case for Sustainable Banking
Thailand’s commercial banks are increasingly lending to neighboring Mekong countries, including to hydropower projects in Laos. The dams that they...
Banks Must Prove They Give a Dam
Opinion piece published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Given the role banks played in the global financial...
Would You Like to Build This Dam (With a Little Bribe)?
Pakistan’s government is currently considering building the Hingol Dam, a $400 million irrigation dam in the mountains of Balochistan Province....
Western Banks Sell Lao Villagers Down the River
The Theun-Hinboun Expansion Project, currently under construction in Central Laos, is displacing thousands of people from their homes and land,...