Hydropower construction, which is decreasing globally, is experiencing revival in the countries of Central Asia.
The list below contains essential reading on hydropower industry and its social, environmental and economic impacts:
The World Bank is poised to repeat the mistakes of the past in its embrace of megadams (October 2024)
Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity (October 2024)
Hydropower stepped down as the global renewable power champion (April 2024)
Hydroelectricity is a hidden source of methane emissions (March 2024)
Human rights law in the development of hydropower projects in transboundary context (March 2024)
Era of Building Big Dams Draws to a Close (July 2023)
Protecting biodiversity from harmful financing: Free flowing rivers (March 2023)
Present and Future Losses of Storage in Large Reservoirs Due to Sedimentation (December 2022)
10 Reasons Why hydropower dams are a false climate solution (April 2022)
Climate change and the hydropower sector: A global review (January 2022)
“Water Yearbook: Central Asia and around the Globe-2020” Hydropower Development in 2020: Global Trends , SIC ICWC, 2021
Declaration For Rivers And Climate (September 2021)
River For Recovery Report: Stronger River Protections Vital To A Green, Just Recovery (November 2020)
Small Hydro: The False Solution For The Green Revolution (December 2020)
The Role of Energy Systems in Decline and Recovery of Aquatic Biodiversity (February 2020)
“Heritage Dammed” Report (June 2019)
Better decision-making about large dams with a view to sustainable development (December 2016)
Implications of Dam Obstruction for Global Freshwater Fish Diversity (March 2012)
Dams and Development. New Framework for Decision Making. World Commission on Dams. (November 2000)