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Liang Chao: 400,000 to relocate for water project
From China Daily: Up to 400,000 people are facing relocation to make way for a project diverting water from the Yangtze River to China’s parched north, it was revealed yesterday. Zhang Jiyao, director...
View ArticleVillagers isolated by a rising reservoir
From Hubei Daily, translated by Three Gorges Probe: The people of Wangusi village on the Xiangxi River, a major Yangtze tributary 45 kilometres upstream of the Three Gorges dam, have seen their way of...
View ArticleDam protester put to death in secret, rushed execution – Kelly Haggart
From Three Gorges Probe: A 20-year-old who took part in angry local protests against the Pubugou dam in Sichuan province two years ago was executed last week, with neither his family nor his lawyer...
View ArticleJustice in China isn’t Blind…. It Just Has Chinese Characteristics – Angry...
From Angry Chinese Blogger: While the Chinese legal system has often been criticized for being unjust and opaque, there remain a number of cases each year that stand out from among the rest as being...
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Work Moves Ahead at China’s Xiluodu Scheme
From International Water Power and Dam Construction: Construction work has taken another step forward for the 12.6GW Xiluodu hydropower scheme on the Jianshajiang river, in China, after the previous...
View ArticleChina Set to Finance Controversial Dam – Yuki Tanabe eKantipur.com
From eKantipur.com – Nepal’s No.1 News Portal: It has been 12 years since the World Bank dropped its support for the massive and costly Arun III Hydroelectric Project in Nepal in response to local and...
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China: New Dam Builder for the World – Shai Oster
From SudanTribune: Home to almost half of the world’s 45,000 biggest dams, China has embarked on a push to export its hydropower know-how to developing countries — even as it contends with...
View ArticleCanada’s Aid Seeded China Dam – Ian Johnson
From The Wall Street Journal: The Canadian government’s little-examined role in the building of China’s Three Gorges Dam sheds light on how foreign governments and companies helped China move forward...
View ArticleChina Bank to Fund Controversial African Dam
International Rivers has confirmed that the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is backing Ethiopia’s controversial Gibe 3 dam, whose generating equipment is to be provided by the Dongfang Electric...
View Article‘Epicenter’ of Terror Gets Chinese Dam in First Step to Stability
Bloomberg reports on the ongoing construction of Pakistan’s Gomal Zam dam by Sinohydro, former employer of Hu Jintao: …China’s Sinohydro Corp., is completing the biggest building project in Pakistan’s...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, World Commission on Dams!
At China Dialogue, International Rivers’ Peter Bosshard marks the 10th anniversary of the World Commission on Dams report, which was unveiled by Nelson Mandela in London on November 16th, 2000. The...
View ArticleDam Breach Kills At Least 10
After Typhoon Haikui landed in Zhejiang Province, according to Xinhua, local authorities have evacuated 1.5 million people and downpours continue. As China is still recovering, the Global Times reports...
View ArticleDam Breach in Shanxi Leads to Flooding, Evacuation
Chinese state media reports that a dam in Shanxi has collapsed causing the shutdown of a highway. This comes amid criticism of the Shanxi government’s cover up of a water contamination incident due to...
View Article“Water Grab” Dams Endanger Himalayan Ecology
Amid a race to secure hydropower resources, The Guardian’s John Vidal writes that China and India’s plans to speed up the construction of dams in the Himalayas could have serious environmental...
View ArticleChina Offers Drought Relief Downstream
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event, China has launched a “water diplomacy” mission, discharging an emergency water supply to downstream Mekong...
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