Tag: <span>RRR_River-related Risks</span>

Ageing Dams Pose Growing Threat

A report by the United Nations University has said that by 2050, most of the world’s population will live downstream of dams operating at or beyond their design life, which could have implications on public safety, escalating maintenance costs, and reservoir sedimentation. The report, “Ageing Water Infrastructure: An Emerging Global …

India’s coal mining in Kamchatka – “a great environmental crime”

The attempts of Tata Power Co. to explore Krutogorovskoye Coal Deposit at Kamchatka Peninsula has been for long seen by Russian environmental community as an irresponsible and risky enterprise. It would affect pristine natural landscapes, salmon fisheries, marine ecosystems and ancestral rights of indigenous people. In an interview with Rishika …

Rivers for Recovery – Sign the Call!

International Rivers, Rivers without Boundaries and other partners are seeking your support in a global call for a just and green recovery at  www.Rivers4Recovery.org.  This global action focuses on calling out and confronting efforts to use the post-COVID-19 pandemic economic recovery to push for  more destructive dams and prop up …

SMALL HYDRO: THE FALSE SOLUTION FOR THE GREEN REVOLUTION

SHORT SOBERING REPORT Since the Report by World Commission on Dams (Nov. 2000) for 20 years there has been relative consensus that large hydro is associated with excessive social and environmental impacts and should be given no green ticket into sustainable future. Somehow it was simultaneously stipulated that “small hydro …

Two months after Uzbekistan dam collapse: is there a hope to avoid the next one?

The tragic failure of the Sardoba dam has sparked fresh debate around water conflicts and the need for cooperation between countries in Central Asia At 5.55 am on May 1, after five days of severe storms, a dam wall at the Sardoba reservoir in the region of Sirdaryo, Uzbekistan, collapsed …