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Laos has suspended consideration of new hydropower projects in the country pending reviews of development policy after the breach of a dam last month left at least 34 dead with 100 still missing, L

Dar es Salaam — President John Magufuli has reiterated his governments stance to implement the controversial Stiegler's Gorge hydro-electricity generation project inside the Selous Game Reserve (SG

More than a hundred are reported missing, with two confirmed dead, following the collapse Monday night of a dam being built in Attapeu province in southeastern Laos, Lao sources said.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that government would construct 570 dams in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions under the one village, one dam project.

In February 2008, the Government of India approved a Scheme of National Projects where under it identified 16 major water resource development and irrigation projects that were under the Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme but were languishing due to various constraints and hurdles.

National river projects lag target by up to 99% due to poor management and lack of monitoring says this audit report by the Comptroller and Auditor General tabled in the Parliament on July 23, 2018. The report also finds overall cost escalation of 2,341% that threatened the economic viability of these project.

A Senate committee probing the Solai Dam tragedy has accused the government of covering up owners of the dam which killed 48 people.

A UN human rights group has raised concern over the inappropriate compensation of Solai Dam victims.

The Myanmar government must undertake reforms in its hydropower sector to prevent dam projects from negatively impacting rural ethnic minority communities in southeastern Kayin state, where electri

A multi-agency committee to spearhead the resettlement of victims of the Solai dam tragedy has been constituted.

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