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  • Laos’ hydropower generation capacity to jump almost four fold 2020

    This media article reports about the Laos' hydropower and its plan for the future.

  • Water Grabbing in the Mekong Basin – An Analysis of the Winners and Losers of Thailand’s Hydropower Development in Lao PDR

    This paper examines how powerful state and private actors from within Thailand and Lao PDR mobilise power to control the benefits from hydropower while the social and environmen...

  • Devastating Laos dam collapse leads to deforestation of protected forests

    This article reviews the catastrophic impacts of dam collapse in the Southern Laos in July 2018 which results in deaths, devastated communities, forced thousands to flee and rip...

  • The Beautiful Rivers—And the Dammed

    This is a news feature on energy trends in the world. It shows the potential of other energy sources other than hydropowers that usually comes with the risks of undesired disast...

  • Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos: a very major landslide in December

    This article features a potential disaster, a land slide, after the construction of Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos.

  • Development or Destruction? The Human Rights Impacts of Hydropower Development on Villagers in Southeast Myanmar

    Myanmar needs to acknowledge and address a number of salient concerns if it going to use hydropower to meet its future electricity needs. Most of Myanmar’s abundant hydropower r...

  • Nam Theun 2 Project Overview

    The page offers an overview of Nam Theun 2 hydro-power project as of 2017, along with every stage of project updates.

  • Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank's model Hydropower project in Laos

    In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...

  • Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development

    Oxfam Mekong Regional Water Governance program developed Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) manual Balancing the scales: Using gender impact assessment in hydropower development. ...

  • Final Report: Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector

    The Myanmar hydropower sector, in the early stages of development, has the opportunity to develop sustainably by balancing electricity generation with environmental and social o...

  • China’s Investments in Hydropower in the Mekong Region: The Kamchay Hydropower Dam, Kampot, Cambodia

    This paper has two main areas of focus, the first deals with the background of the Kamchay project, including Cambodia’s motivation for developing its hydropower capacities, and...

  • Laos to build Don Sahong dam (thanks to Chinese help)

    The Laotian government officially announces the construction of the dam. Once completed, it will likely affect the lives of at least 60 million people, damaging crops and ecosys...

  • Regulatory Shortcomings Open the Way to More Dams on the Mekong

    Plans for more dams along the Mekong are causing concern among environmentalists and pressure groups. But the body tasked with overseeing such projects has limited powers to imp...

  • Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR

    The Master Plan was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts in full collaboration with the Government of Lao PDR (GoL). The purpos...

  • National sector review 2003: Hydropower

    Cambodia is one of the south-east Asian countries that is rich in water resources. According to the latest preliminary study, the total hydropower potential of the country is es...

  • Exec Summary - Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Myanmar Hydropower Sector

    မှနြှာန ိုငငြံ ရအောားလွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပရြေားကဏျဍသညြ ှှံှေ့ပှ ှုားရေားအရကာငအြထညရြှာြှှု ကနဦားအဆငြ့တြှငသြာ ရှ ရန ရသားသညြ့အြတှကြ လွှပစြဈထိုတလြိုပြှှုက ို ပတဝြနြားက ငြ နှငြ့ြ လူှှုရော...

  • Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong

    The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...

  • Launching Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam

    The article, from the Office of the Council of Ministers, is about the Prime Minister of Cambodia launching the Lower Sesan II Hydropower Dam.

  • Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos

    The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated wit...

  • Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR

    Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most si...

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