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Brasil decide sobre sus represas
Brasil seguirá adelante con la construcción de dos represas hidroeléctricas en el río Madeira, en la región amazónica, a pesar...
Mexico
Twenty large dams have already been built on Mexico’s rivers. Mexico boasts the highest dam in the Americas and the...
Madeira River
The Madeira River is the Amazon’s largest and most important tributary. Spanning about a quarter of the Brazilian Amazon, the...
La Parota Dam
UPDATE – La Parota Dam was officially cancelled on August 16, 2012. In 2003, the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission proposed...
Bujagali Campaign Project Economics
Can Huge Dams Solve our Economic Problems? A view from Save Bujagali Crusade, March 16, 2000. [node:488 link]International Rivers Letter...
Bujagali Campaign Materials
International Rivers’s Bujagali Campaign campaign material Letters Save Mabira Crusade BackgrounderA backgrounder from Save Mabira Crusade on the unpopular government...
Energy Solutions for Uganda
Uganda clearly needs power, but questions remain as to whether its single-minded focus on large dams is the most appropriate...
Big Dams: Bringing Poverty, Not Power to Africa
Large hydro dams do not “lift all boats”–in fact, they increase the gap between energy haves and have-nots. Africa’s large...
Evaluating the LHWP Against WCD Guidelines
Africa’s largest infrastructure project the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is a massive, multi-dam scheme built to divert water from...