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Dear DOGE, it's high time to tear down those dams!
News, Tom Zoellner, Published on 12/07/2025
» No big government infrastructure project made an imprint on the landscape and economy of the West more than the US Bureau of Reclamation's 20th century dam-building spree, which peppered 490 dams across the country, created an agricultural civilisation dependent on federal hydrology civil engineering, and brought about a welter of environmental difficulties after drying up dozens of once-healthy rivers.
Sort out systemic corruption
Postbag, Published on 06/10/2024
» Re: "Negligence claims lives", (Editorial, Oct 4).
Rethinking our cities' link to water
News, Richard Friend & Pakamas Thinphanga, Published on 21/12/2023
» Water holds special symbolic significance in Thai culture, from Loy Krathong to Songkran festivals. But as much as we respect the value of water, we must also recognise that failure to care for our water resources puts our lives and wellbeing at risk.
Tackling Thailand's water problems
Oped, Richard Friend & Pakamas Thinphanga, Published on 05/08/2023
» Thailand has experienced an unusually prolonged period of water crises over recent years. The dry seasons are becoming longer and drier, while the rainy seasons are shorter but with more intense rainfall. This oscillating pattern of droughts and floods has become harder to predict and is causing more serious impacts.
Heatwaves, the other silent killer
Oped, Kathryn Clarkson, Published on 03/06/2021
» Temperatures are soaring to extremes more often even as Asia faces record Covid-19 surges. Millions of people from Bangladesh to Vietnam are stuck inside baking homes. Yet many still need to get outside to carry on their daily lives and survive even when they face sweltering heat. More than ever, we must do more to keep people safe, with concrete steps to prevent death and by taking early lifesaving action.
Govt sits idly by as China churns up the Mekong
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 04/07/2019
» Recently, a coalition of civil society groups, which has monitored development on and along the Mekong River, issued a frightening statement. Fluctuations of river flows during the past three decades have been at record highs, they said.