(March 8, 2001) Members of a US congressional commission which last year recommended radical reforms at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have urged the new Bush administration to push for deeper reforms.

(February 9, 2001) MAB reflects on WCD: one thing became clear to us that it is not only in our country, and not only in our continent that dams have been build against the interests of dam-affected populations.

(December 7, 2000) This article is by longtime Probe colleague and U.S. engineering consultant Phil Williams, a contributor to three Probe International books — Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam Builders Don’t Want You to Know (1990), Yangtze!Yangtze! by Dai Qing (1994), and The River Dragon Has Come (1998, co-editor) — and founder of the Berkeley-based International Rivers Network.

(December 1, 2000) The Government of Laos (GoL) has halted the Forest Management and Conservation Programme (FOMACOP) after the first five-year phase because of difficulties …

(November 20, 2000) An agreement to build a power plant in Bujagali, Uganda is signed by a consortium, headed by Veidekke ASA. The consortium consists of ABB Distribusjon AS, Alstom Power Ltd. (Switzerland), GE Energy(Norway) AS and Skanska AB in addition to Veidekke.

(November 20, 2000) A five-part television series on the controversial project. This five-part series on India’s controversial Narmada dam project airs from November 20-24, 2000, and focuses on …

(November 16, 2000) The plight of Rio Negro survivors has been studied closely by the World Commission on Dams, an independent body sponsored by the World Bank to review the performance of large dams and make recommendations for future planning of such projects.