On May 10 a dam supplying water for export-oriented commercial rose-growing agricultural farm burst in Kenya causing death and devastation. According to dam managers it served for decades without causing concern, but last week caused a major disaster triggered by heavy rains. The Patel dam was one of a number …
Rt Hon. Theresa May MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London, SW1A 2AA April 28, 2018 The Ilisu Dam and Turkey’s use of water as a weapon of war Dear Prime Minister, We write as civil society organizations to draw your attention to the imminent impoundment by Turkey of the …
An article published by Chinese scientists shows changes in fish species assemblages along Yellow river during last 50 years due to dams diversions and invasive species .. From the beginning of the 1960s in China, 32 large and medium-size dams in the main stem and hundreds of smaller ones in …
According to the report jointly prepared by UN Environment‘s Economy Division, Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance in April 2018, the share of hydropower in net additions of installed capacity in 2017 continued to shrink globally. The RwB merged the Report’s …
Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS) socioeconomic specialist Nguyen Thi Ngoc Minh said that the scenarios for 2020 and 2040 showed that if hydropower dam development in the Mekong River continues as planned, the economic benefits to the region would be overshadowed by the adverse impacts of the development. “Development plans …
The International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group) has published the IFC Handbook on good practice in environmental flows for hydropower projects. The book written by top experts in the field of E-flows and edited by the IFC describes what the World Bank Group expects to be a …
