China dams

Ecuador’s energy crisis has focused attention on its under-performing hydroelectric dams built by China’s state-owned enterprises.

The already-fraught relationship between China and India is becoming even more tense over Beijing’s plans to build a “super hydropower dam” in Tibet. 

Climate change-induced water loss in the Tibetan Plateau further challenges water security from Central to Southeast Asia.

The plan to divert the waters of Brahmaputra would affect over 140 million people who are dependent on the river.

Suspended financing has put a joint project to build dams in Patagonia on hold. The two sides need to act quickly to resolve the issue.

Analyzing Chinese dams in Laos provides insight into the local origins and drivers of the BRI, particularly along China’s borderland regions.

The past two years have seen water levels on the lower Mekong rise and full unpredictably.

Firsthand glimpses of how dam construction changed the river over the course of eight years.

If a new hydropower project at the Brahmaputra’s Great Bend comes about, northeastern India will have to go to sleep with the possibility of breach of mammoth sized water reservoirs over its head at any time.

The fall in water levels has again raised questions about the activities of Chinese dam engineers upstream.

The notification came several days after locals in Thailand detected a one-meter drop in the river's level.