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Safe and secure - risk based techniques for dam safety
07 December, 2006
In December 2006, part one of our article on the issues associated with the use of risk based techniques for assessing the safety of dams reported on the potential for dam failures based on past evidence and causes, and assessed the records for dam safety legislation and the classifications the structures are given by countries worldwide. Part two looks at how risk assessment has evolved, studies the public’s attitudes towards dam safety, looks in detail at the concept of risk assessment as applied to dam safety and current practice in its applications, and touches on the issue of dam security

Will hydro win the great game?
17 October, 2006
Competition between Russia and China is driving tens of billions of dollars of investment into the hydro sector across the former Soviet republics. Peter O'Neill reviews the potential benefits and risks as the two giants compete to set up alliances for raw materials and the power to mine and process them

Collaborative relicensing
09 October, 2006
As part of the relicensing process for the Catawba-Wateree hydroelectric project, Duke Energy collaborated with over 160 stakeholders to help improve, balance and sustain future power and non-power uses of the scheme’s 13 hydro stations and 11 reservoirs

Taking the initiative
19 July, 2006
I. M. Sahai reports in detail on India’s 50,000MW initiative and investigates prospects for hydro development in the future

Financing Paraguay's Yguazu project
23 May, 2006
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has signed an official development assistance loan agreement with the Republic of Paraguay for construction of its Yguazu hydro power plant

Five years on - impacts of the WCD
20 January, 2006
WWF has released a document which takes a look at how the World Commission on Dams report has impacted the dam community five years after its release. Carrieann Davies talked to the report’s author, Ute Collier, and discovered why WWF feels that some dams are failing to meet the WCD’s recommendations