By Jaymi Heimbuch, San Francisco, California for Treehugger. In the first ever global analysis of how dams impact food security and livelihoods, The Nature Conservancy and partners found that at least 472 million people have experienced the downside of dams. The new study goes beyond the displacement of people by new dam projects and into [...]
Three Gorges pushes another 300,000 off their land, surprises nobody
Brady Yauch for Probe International The Chinese government is preparing to push another 300,000 residents living near the Three Gorges dam off their land to make way for what officials are calling an “eco-screen, or buffer belt.” The 300,000 residents soon to be displaced come on top of the 1.138 million people that have, officially, [...]
Global Dam Experts Find World Water Forum Expands the Global Water Divide
International Rivers | Press Release | March 20, 2009 Istanbul, Turkey — At a press conference today at the Fifth World Water Forum (WWF), a panel of international experts and activists denounced the undemocratic methods of the WWF and World Water Council. They reaffirmed their opposition to large dams, the impacts of which include increased [...]
