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๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ข๐š๐ง๐  ๐”๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐š๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ ๐๐ซ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ก, ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ข๐š

We publish this in solidarity with people of China, India and Bangladesh, who are threatened by the โ€œdam warโ€ on Brahmaputra River started by the governments of China and India . We saw dams built under excuses of economic growth, local development and climate salvation. The cascade on Brahmaputra is …

Central Asia, Featured, Paris worth a dam?, World Heritage Convention

World Bankโ€™s financing role in the Rogun Hydropower Plant facing scrutiny

Eurasianet. Apr 11, 2025 An aerial view of construction works at Rogun. (Photo: president.tj) The World Bank is under fire over allegations of impropriety in financing the Rogun Dam project in Tajikistan. Specifically, bank officials are facing accusations that they failed to comply with procedures to account for potential environmental …

Essential Publications, Featured, Paris worth a dam?, World Heritage Convention

State of Renewables: Hydropower is a Harmful Outsider

This week the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a new Report Renewable Capacity Statistics 2025. Its contents are very predictable, almost boring: a new wave of unprecedented growth in renewable capacity installation in 2024. The 585 GW addition of RE last year holds a 92.5% share of the total …

Balkhash, Central Asia, Featured, Solidarity

Mapping of the freshwater biodiversity of Central Asia will help to preserve it from destruction

Central Asian rivers are home to dozens of endemic and threatened fish species, most of which are not well studied. According to the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN) Red List, 21 fish species in the region are critically endangered (CR), endangered (EN), or vulnerable (VU).  Several vertebrate species …

Central Asia, Essential Publications, Featured, Solidarity

How to interact with development banks lending to hydropower projects?

Bankwatch and Rivers without Boundaries have produced a Toolkit aimed primarily at civil society organizations working to challenge the construction of dams and other unsustainable water infrastructure. It focuses on Central Asia, a region where numerous highly problematic dam projects are still planned. As the region lacks an established culture …

Solidarity

Stop Attacks at the Tishreen Dam in Syria! Remember the Lessons of Kakhovka Dam Collapse in Ukraine.

Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River. Source: www.geosense.com A month-long intense clashes and recent aerial bombardment of the areas adjacent to Tishreen Dam on Euphrates River, as well as mutual accusations accompanying this conflict, vividly remind us the period before the blasting of Kakhovka Dam on Dnipro River in June 2023. …