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Lowering the Bar on Big Dams: Making the case for WCD compliance on African dams
Executive summary A confusing maze of new funds, programs, and strategies (both within Africa and from abroad) is now prioritizing...
Dams and Levees Heighten Flood Danger in a Warming World
This op-ed first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 29, 2007 Floods are the most destructive, most frequent...
International Rivers Comments to ADB on Draft Energy Strategy
International Rivers comments to the ADB noting that its draft Energy Strategy and ADB’s project pipeline ultimately convey a “business-as-usual”...
Hutiaoxia Petition
Stop the Hutiaoxia Dam! In the renewed hydropower boom in southwest China, Hutiaoxia (Tiger Leaping Gorge) dam is the leading...
International Rivers’s Mphanda Nkuwa Campaign Materials
Fact Sheets [node:846 link]Fact sheet on the project produced in October 2006. Also available in [node:847 link]. Mphanda Nkuwa Dam:...
Impacts from Dam-induced Mini-Floods
It is proposed that one or two of Mphanda Nkuwa’s four electricity-generating turbines would be operated intermittently to provide for...
Sesan Dams
Over the past decade, tens of thousands of villagers once dependent upon the abundant resources of the Sesan River have...
Son La Dam
The Son La Hydropower Project is the largest and most complex dam project ever built in Vietnam. The project will...
Cambodia
The Cambodian government is on the threshold of committing to an extensive hydropower program mostly with the backing of Chinese...