By RIAZ KHAN and ROSHAN MUGHAL (AP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. View The Guardian’s photo gallery [...]
A Damned Dam
Patricia Adams | The Mark-Probe International For fifteen years, Three Gorges dam officials have been looking forward to the day they could declare the dam – the world’s most spectacular, and controversial, engineering feat – finished and operating at full capacity. Now it appears they’ll have to keep waiting as low water levels and drought [...]
ADB backs Vietnam hydropower project
AFP | Hanoi HANOI (AFP) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Vietnam on Monday signed a 196-million-dollar loan for a hydropower plant, the country’s first major dam project to be backed by a multilateral development agency. The 156-megawatt Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project will be built in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon river basin of [...]
Karen Group Opposes Salween River Dams
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 | By SAW YAN NAING The Burmese government’s plan to build two major hydropower dams—the Wai Gyi and Hat Gyi—on the Salween River in eastern Burma threatens the human rights of local residents and the biodiversity of the area, says an environmental organization. According to the report “Khoe Kay: Biodiversity in [...]
