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Dam Accounting: Taking Stock of Methane Emissions From Reservoirs

May 4, 2022 by Tara Lohan

Mounting studies highlight greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs, and now a coalition of environmental groups has called for regulatory action.

Categories Energy, Environment, Environment featured, Food & Water Tags big dam projects, Hydropower, methane emissions Leave a comment

Popularity of Big Hydropower Projects Diminishes Around the World

December 15, 2020July 18, 2016 by Keith Schneider

Cambodia joins a lengthening list of nations around the world that are reassessing big hydropower dams in an era when wind and solar power are less expensive, much easier to build, less damaging, and far less vulnerable to droughts and floods.

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Dam on Ethiopia’s Omo River Causing Hunger and Conflict

December 15, 2020December 14, 2015 by Sandra Postel

In the lower Omo River Valley of southern Ethiopia, a spreading humanitarian emergency that threatens to spawn conflicts in the region is largely being met with silence…

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Dam Ideology

December 15, 2020December 10, 2015 by Sandra Postel

When it comes to water, concrete trumps common sense.

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Water Wars on the Way in Absence of a Steady State

December 15, 2020July 2, 2013 by Brent Blackwelder

The past century’s foolish management of water would not have happened in a steady state economy.

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