Plans to harness hydropower potential in the Lower Mekong Basin for the first time has led to a search for a good dam. This is the issue that some 200 scientists, development experts, policy makers, and representatives from the hydropower sector wanted to resolve when they participated in last month’s [...]
Plans to harness hydropower potential in the Lower Mekong Basin for the first time has led to a search for a good dam. This is the issue that some 200 scientists, development experts, policy makers, and representatives from the hydropower sector wanted to resolve when they participated in last month’s [...]
[HANOI] The planned construction of hydropowered dams on the Mekong River in South-East Asia could jeopardise livelihoods, water access and food security for 60 million people, across Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a study. The study reports that dams will block fish migration routes and decimate fish supplies [...]
[HANOI] The planned construction of hydropowered dams on the Mekong River in South-East Asia could jeopardise livelihoods, water access and food security for 60 million people, across Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a study. The study reports that dams will block fish migration routes and decimate fish supplies [...]
Sompong Viengchan is shown standing in front of a long, narrow concrete water channel on a steep slope beside the Pak Mun hydropower dam in northern Thailand, on a tributary of the Mekong River. The concrete fish ladder was built as an afterthought when environmentalists’ warnings about the dam’s impact [...]
At a recent forum in Hanoi, hydrologists, academics and NGOs agreed that projects often sink or swim depending on how they deal with those displaced by dams and urged governments to take a bigger role in implementing effective policies and compensation from the start
As Ethiopia’s massive dam-building plans continue to cause disquiet in downstream Egypt, new research suggests there is sufficient water in the Nile for all 10 countries it flows through, and that poverty there could be significantly eased as long as access by small-scale farmers is boosted.
A scientific research based development strategy that promotes the policy of institutional and technological innovations is crucial for Bangladesh to enhance its water productivity and ecosystem services in an equitable and sustainable manner, said scientists yesterday. They opined this at a science workshop on Ganges Basin Development Challenge (GBDC) organised [...]
The book, titled “The Nile River Basin” was officially launched here in Addis Ababa. The history, major current and future challenges and opportunities of the Nile River Basin were presented in great detail. Africa has currently turned its face towards better harnessing and managing its natural resources. Water is of [...]
A new book finds that the Nile river, together with its associated tributaries and rainfall, could provide 11 countries – including a new country, South Sudan, and the drought-plagued countries of the Horn of Africa – with enough water to support a vibrant agriculture sector, but that the poor in [...]
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