China dams

While the proposed hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River has sparked concerns in India, from China’s perspective it is mostly motivated by domestic factors.

The U.N. process shows little appetite for addressing the urgent climate crisis on the Tibetan Plateau – in part due to China’s apathy.

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.

The level of the river in northern Thailand reportedly dropped by more than a meter in 48 hours.

The launch comes amid rising controversy over the impact of Chinese dams on downstream nations.

However, environmental concerns continue to dog the planned hydroelectric projects in India’s northeast.

The plan to build a hydropower dam across the Yarlung Zangbo has worried many in India, who say the country could be adversely affected.

Whether through its own dams or the financing and construction of dams in other countries, China is largely in the driver’s seat when it comes to the Mekong.

As the unpopular project sits in limbo, the government has to choose between upsetting China and enraging its own people.

The LMC was born from China’s unilateral dam building, but that same fact may also undermine the forum in the end.

The cost-cutting and lack of oversight that led to the dam's collapse plague other hydropower projects across the country.

There are strong political motives behind China's fast response.

Lessons learned from last year's disaster can shape a climate-resilient approach in the Mekong Delta.

China is preserving the ecology of the Nu River within its borders. Downstream in Myanmar, it's a different story.