In Gornozavodsk (Japanese: 内幌町, Naihoro) town on Sakhalin Island, on May 14, 2018 a long anticipated coal-mud flood consumed several buildings and farms and now creeps towards the highway and nearby rivers. Coal miners are routinely allowed to store waste in dangerous locations, displace local residents, pollute salmon-spawning rivers and …
The X International Conference “Rivers of Siberia and the Far East” Novosibirsk, Russia 12-13 October 2018 Announcement № 1 Dear Friends! The 10th International Conference “Rivers of Siberia and the Far East” will take place 12-13 October 2018 in Novosibirsk, Russia. The conference will be dedicated to issues of sustainable …
On May 10 a dam supplying water for export-oriented commercial rose-growing agricultural farm burst in Kenya causing death and devastation. According to dam managers it served for decades without causing concern, but last week caused a major disaster triggered by heavy rains. The Patel dam was one of a number …
Rt Hon. Theresa May MP Prime Minister 10 Downing Street London, SW1A 2AA April 28, 2018 The Ilisu Dam and Turkey’s use of water as a weapon of war Dear Prime Minister, We write as civil society organizations to draw your attention to the imminent impoundment by Turkey of the …
An article published by Chinese scientists shows changes in fish species assemblages along Yellow river during last 50 years due to dams diversions and invasive species .. From the beginning of the 1960s in China, 32 large and medium-size dams in the main stem and hundreds of smaller ones in …
According to the report jointly prepared by UN Environment‘s Economy Division, Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance in April 2018, the share of hydropower in net additions of installed capacity in 2017 continued to shrink globally. The RwB merged the Report’s …
