A proposal to divert Siberian lake water to China’s arid northwest meets with opposition, writes Eugene Simonov for the China Dialogue Lake Baikal in Russia holds 20% of the earth’s freshwater supplies and harbours at least 2,500 species, most of them found nowhere else (Image: Eugene Simonov) Prologue If …
Chief Researcher from Baikalsky Biosphere Reserve testifying on possible threats to the Lake Baikal ecosystems at the WB consultations in Kabansk, Russia, March 2017.(Photo: RwB) Kenneth Rapoza has published in “Forbes” a detailed account of the several potentially damaging dams planned in Lake Baikal basin in Mongolia. We publish …
People from 30 countries who attended Rivergathering in Tbilisi , Georgia on March 28-31, 2017 signed a letter urging the leaders of Mongolia and the World Bank to refrain from plans to build dams in Selenge River Basin. They demanded that the country and the WB do not violate international …
New large hydro has shown a major year-to-year slowdown in 2016. It has also shown opposite tendencies for pumped storage and “true” hydro. The International Hydropower Association has issued annual brief on the“Key Trends in Hydropower” . In 2016, worldwide hydropower development grew by 31.5 GW of new capacity. …
The International Day of Action to Protect Rivers was relatively peaceful at our northern latitudes, where rivers are still covered with ice. It consisted of five environmental education events, two public lectures and two petitions released to mass-media. Such relative quietness in part is a consequence of wise and timely …
It became a tradition every spring to propose a new mega-pipeline to quench thirst in arid corners of Asia. Last year it was done by the Russian Minister of Agriculture Mr.Tkachev , in 2013 by the President of Mongolia Elbegdorj… The Global Times published a series of articles on …
