News headlines for “Water and Development”, page 125
PERU: Dam Project Temporarily Suspended to Calm Protests
- Inter Press Service
The outgoing government of Peruvian President Alan García has suspended construction of the Inambari hydroelectric complex, part of an energy deal with Brazil. But activists say the move is merely aimed at calming tempers among local people opposed to the dam, while handing the problem on to García's successor, president-elect Ollanta Humala.
Hydropower Dams Hurt Amerindians in Brazil and Canada
- Inter Press Service
Michael Lawrenchuk, a Cree political activist from Canada, was given a standing ovation at the International Hydropower Association congress held in this Brazilian border town, after depicting the suffering of his people since dams began to be built on rivers across their land.
Dam Project in Turkey Breeds Controversy
- Inter Press Service
The tranquillity and mystery of this town on the banks of Tigris River will not last long. The millennia-old town will be nearly totally destroyed once the nearby Ilisu dam, built for energy and irrigation, is complete.
New Fear of Civil War in Sudan
- Inter Press Service
The escalation of violence around the north-south border in the run-up to Sudan’s big divide has sparked fears of a new civil war, but experts contend that the issue is more about land and water rather than oil.
SENEGAL: Making Hand Washing Easy
- Inter Press Service
Think hand washing can’t be fun? Think again. In Senegal, a unique water system offers people an easy, cheap and environmentally friendly way to wash their hands frequently, reducing the spread of hand-borne transmittable diseases.
CHILE: HidroAysén Dam Project is Dividing Communities
- Inter Press Service
The area that will be flooded to build the HidroAysén project’s five dams represents barely 0.05 percent of the Chilean region of Aysén. But it is made up precisely of the valleys where the majority of the population lives, according to local residents.
LIBYA: Water Emerges as a Hidden Weapon
- Inter Press Service
Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater.
Key Fisheries Treaty to Lapse in Rebuke to U.S.
- Inter Press Service
For the past quarter century, the United States' relations with Pacific island nations were framed by the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which combines foreign aid, subsidies to the U.S. fleet of purse-seine fishing vessels and their largely unfettered access to the islands' waters, which contain the world's last major stocks of tuna.
BRAZIL: Amazon Dams Mean Progress for Some, Lost Livelihoods for Others
- Inter Press Service
The Amazonian town of Mutum-Paraná, in the northern Brazilian state of Rondônia, is disappearing. Its last remaining buildings must be dismantled before it is flooded by the construction of the Jirau hydroelectric dam on the Madeira River.
Global Campaign to Bestow Legal Rights on Mother Earth
- Inter Press Service
An international coalition of academics and environmental activists has launched a global campaign for the creation of a new U.N. convention to protect 'mother earth'.
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