BANGKOK, Thailand, October 24, 2019 (ENS) – In five days, the Xayaburi Hydropower Project on the Mekong River in northern Laos will formally begin operations. As the first dam on the lower Mekong ...

Basket loads of fish, villagers bathing along the banks of the river, a farmers market selling jungle delicacies — these are Pornlert Prompanya’s boyhood memories of a wild and pristine Mekong River ...

Currently more than 10 hydropower projects are planned for Valbona Valley National Park (Albania) and one is already under construction. Hydropower has a long and complicated relationship with the ...

WASHINGTON – The House passed S. 4367, the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024. This legislation includes provisions from Congresswoman Annie Kuster’s (NH-02) H.R. 5104, National ...

With nearly $900 billion in investment across nearly 140 countries, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has sparked significant debate. Much of this debate has focused on the professed grand ...

In southwestern Pennsylvania, eight locks and dams that for decades helped barges move goods along the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers will in a few years also generate enough power for 75,000 ...

Thirty years after the Pak Mun dam was built in Thailand, the traditional way of fishing in the Khong Chiam district has completely stopped as the dam blocks the seasonal migrations of a wide range of ...

A River Prayers ceremony in Loei province to raise awareness of Mekong dams. Credit: Wora Suk For more than two decades, communities in Southeast Asia have been facing threats from the expansion of ...