(April 25, 2006) Following allegations of corruption, a local NGO has appealed for an audit of the tenders allocated in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), the world’s largest water transfer operation.
Africa Action confronts World Bank and IMF on health impact, corruption
(April 22, 2006) Ahead of this weekend’s Spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa Action and allied organizations today staged a theatrical "health inspection" of these institutions, finding them to be a public health hazard in Africa and other impoverished regions.
Water diversion ‘risks pollution’
(April 19, 2006) Environmental experts have released a report warning that massive water diversion project will worsen pollution in the Han River in central China and threaten the quality of drinking water for millions of residents in Wuhan, Hubei province.
Clean-up of river a sham – academic
(April 19, 2006) A widely publicised effort to clean up the Huai River has failed, according to a whistle-blowing official who contradicted glowing reports published in the People’s Daily.
Lesotho dismisses dam appeal
(April 14, 2006) Italy’s biggest construction company Impregilo has lost an appeal to challenge the right of the high court in Lesotho to try it for bribing officials to win a major dam contract there.
At World Bank, a pledge to focus on corruption
(April 13, 2006) Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, pledged Tuesday to push the fight against corruption to the center of the bank’s global development work in a speech outlining a comprehensive and detailed anti-corruption agenda.
China’s PM calls for action to protect environment: Zhu
(April 12, 2006) Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji says a growing water shortage is among main problems.
Wolfowitz unveils anti-corruption strategy
(April 11, 2006) Jakarta: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz unveiled corruption fighting measures on Tuesday that will change the way the bank designs and approves development projects for poor countries.
Reaction to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s remarks on corruption today
(April 11, 2006) Jubilee USA and East Timor and Indonesia Action Networks challenge Wolfowitz to address roots of corruption by canceling Indonesia’s Suharto-era debt.
Good governance and development: a time for action
(April 11, 2006) "Corruption is not just a problem for developing countries to deal with. . . . Indeed, every corrupt transaction has, unfortunately, at least two parties, and very often the bribe givers are from developed countries."
Thousands to be moved for water transfer project
(April 10, 2006) Beijing plans to move 220,000 people to make way for a multi-billion dollar project to transfer water from the flood-prone Yangtze river to the parched cities and farmland of the north.
The World Bank weeds out corruption
(April 8, 2006) Will it touch the roots?
Plan curbs Three Gorges pollution
(April 6, 2006) Beijing is trying to halt the flow of sediment and industrial pollution into the massive reservoir that will be created with the construction of the dam on the Yangtze River.
Ertan hydroelectric power plant seeks loan extension
(April 6, 2006) Ertan is asking for a 10-year deferral of loan repayments, including some to the World Bank. Since opening in 1998, the Ertan dam has lost an average of US$145 million annually due to an electricity glut in Sichuan province.
China plans rapid water diversion
(April 6, 2006) China will speed up a “mega-project” to divert billions of cubic metres of water from the Yangtze to the Yellow River, despite serious concern about the environmental consequences.
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