World’s dams to lose a quarter of storage capacity by 2050 – UN research
Shanghai, China Reuters Nearly 50,000 large dams worldwide could lose more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050 as a result of sedimentation build-ups, eroding global water and energy security, according to United Nations research on Wednesday. Dam capacity is expected to drop from six trillion cubic metres to 4.655 trillion cubic metres […]
“Without sediment, we are done”: How dams built by China starve the Mekong River Delta of vital sediment
KANUPRIYA KAPOOR, SIMON SCARR AND PHUONG NGUYEN, of Reuters, report on the impact of Chinese-built hydroelectric dams on the Mekong River Delta…