Cape Town's rainfall for August has been way below average so far with some of the mountain areas that feed the city's storage dams getting less than a third of their normal rainfall. Some areas have
The July 23 dam collapse in southern Laos marked a turning point that squarely exposed the vulnerabilities of Laos’ current plans to become the “battery” of Southeast Asia. At least 34 people died in floods
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, Lao sources
Water will be cut off in the towns of Hankey and Patensie in the Eastern Cape from Monday and only switched on again for short periods to stretch what little is left in the Kouga Dam, the municipality
International development finance institutions (DFIs) invested heavily in large-scale infrastructure projects that triggered significant deforestation in the Andes Amazon especially within the nations
- Floods from a burst dam in Laos have inundated thousands of hectares of paddy fields in Vietnam’s rice-growing Mekong Delta region, officials said on Wednesday, although the damage is limited and not
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. Despite early
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. The Builsa area
A UN human rights group has raised concern over the inappropriate compensation of Solai Dam victims. Anita Ramasastry, chairperson of the United Nations expert group on business and human rights, yesterday
A Senate committee probing the Solai Dam tragedy has accused the government of covering up owners of the dam which killed 48 people. The committee chaired by Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo expressed
