Good news came to us in the first days of this year from an unexpected source. Brazil officials announced that the Government “should respect the views of civil society” and will abstain from new mega-dam building. This is a global trend that was theoretically predicted awhile ago and, hopefully, is …
Dear Reader! Please accept our belated new year wishes. We wish You clear waters with abundant life! We wish You peace and happiness on holidays and to win all Your battles during the rest of the year! Rivers without Boundaries
Both decisions claim to confront climate change… Long-awaited decision to create Vasyugansky Mire Zapovednik (a strict scientific nature reserve) was made on December 16 by the Russian government . A 6148 square km. nature reserve will be created within The Great Vasyugansky Mire, the largest swamp system in …
We have unusual cause to talk again about our old acquaintances : China Three Gorges Co. What makes us really cheerful is not even the speed of conversion from new hydro to new solar, not just the boldness with which they reclaim collapsed coal mine for new solar farm, but …
This is a quick snap-shot developed by Eugene Simonov of the Rivers without Boundaries International Coalition (RwB) who visited planned reservoir bottom in September 2017. At the RwB we often encounter 50-60-year old dam designs being revived in completely new circumstances of the "Belt and Road Initiative"(BRI) of China. Besides …
The World Bank continues to support and promote large hydropower against all evidence that its negative effects have never been mitigated in most known projects. From Laos to Mongolia and from Pakistan to Georgia, the World Bank promotes the technology that brings destruction to living river ecosystems and livelihoods …
