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 [...]
Pipes but no water: A need grows in Egypt
Published: September 30, 2008 In a letter from Egypt Daniel Williams of Bloomberg News writes CAIRO: The women line up at a well, jugs in hand and on their heads, to draw water. It is a pastoral scene celebrated in paintings and in Middle Eastern lore from ancient times. This tableau, however, is in a [...]
India-Nepal water talks resume after four years
Indo-Asian News Service Kathmandu, September 29, 2008 Neighbours India and Nepal, who share the same Himalayan rivers and are often at loggerheads over the sharing of flowing water resources, resumed bilateral water-sharing talks after four years in the Napal capital on Monday. The three-day meeting of the Joint Committee on Water Resources is led by [...]
