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• 27.12.01: Outcomes of the International Conference on Freshwater in Bonn
• 26.12.01: Poland: WWF proposes a sustainable solution to the Wloclawek dam problem
• 21.12.01: Vacancies for staff of the UNEP - Dams and Development Project, Cape Town
• 20.12.01: Iceland's Environment Minister Gives Green Light to Hydro Power Project - serious setback for conservation
• 20.12.01 : EEB vacancy for an EU-POLICY ASSISTANT
• 19.12.01: Global Peatland Initiative Web Site
• 16.12.01 : Thailand: The Pak Mun gates will remain open for one year
• 12.12.01: UNESCO And Green Cross International Join Forces To Avert Water Conflicts
• 10.12.01: Nile Basin States launch environment project
• 10.12.01: New flood warning website will keep English and Welsh residents in the know
  
• 08.12.01: NGO Statement at the Bonn Conference on Freshwater
• 04.12.01: World's Water Storage Capacity Shrinking as Dams Silt Up
• 28.11.01: WWF Launches Five-Point Plan To Save The World's Water
• 27.11.01: International coalition urges aluminum companies to scrap plans for Amazon dams
  
• 17.11.01: More than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs face massive ecological threats
• 15.11.01: European Parliament passes an important amendment against the Spanish Hydrological Plan.
• 15.11.01: Several articles concerning Balfour Beatty's withdrawal from Ilisu dam project
• 14.11.01: Campaigners Celebrate Ilisu Dam Campaign Victory
• 13.11.01: Balfour Beatty Withdraws From Ilisu Dam Project
• 13.11.01: River Indus: Flow has receded, resulting in acute shortage of water
• 13.11.01: Small, Mountain Rivers Play Big Role In Ocean Sediment
• 12.11.01: "River Basin Development: A Negotiated Approach" project seeks partners
• 12.11.01: Budapest Memorandum on the Danube River Basin
• 08.11.01: Bombing of Afghan Hydro Plant Could Cause Disaster, says UN
  
• 07.11.01: Morocco's water resources threaten by cereals output
• 07.11.01: Hudson river cleaning itself, but still needs help
  
• 05.11.01: IUCN launches new strategy - global action to improve dams
• 05.11.01: Guyana: Army on standby as dam bursts flooding village in east
• 05.11.01: UK rivers runs cleaner but spoiled by rubbish
• 02.11.01: Sudan embarks on gigantic hydroelectric dam project
• 02.11.01: Interesting new link to Eurocat Project website ("Catchment basins changes and their impact on the cost")
  
• 01.11.01: Dams And Development Project Established (post WCD project)
• 01.11.01: US bombs hit largest Afghan dam
• 01.11.01: Commission gives new impetus to environmental co-operation in The Danube - Black Sea region
  
• 30.10.01: Water Pollution By Nitrates: Commission Takes Legal Action Against The United Kingdom For Non-Compliance With Court Judgement
• 30.10.01: Dam-Affected People Occupy Headquarters of Belgian Multinational Tractebel in Rio de Janeiro
• 30.10.01: New Dam on Paraguay/Argentine Border Could Halt Free Flow of Water on Paraná
• 30.10.01: Blair in drive for Turkish dam deal
  
• 29.10.01: One of the world´s largest registers of research projects on the environment available online
• 26.10.01: Preparations for World Wetlands Day 2002 may now begin in earnest.
• 26.10.01: UK: Flood-risk towns to receive revolutionary new barrier
• 26.10.01: Eutrophication decreases in European coastal waters
• 24.10.01: Cyanide spill Ghana's worst environmental disaster
  
• 23.10.01: First pan-European guidance for Water Framework Directive implementation (several languages)
• 18.10.01:East African Water Clash slams Nile Treaty
• 16.10.01: Macedonia: the Disappearance of Dojran Lake
• 13.10.01: German Federal and Regional Ministers of Environment against new Czech dams.
• 12.10.01: Power plant resettlement scheme heats up in Vietnam
• 09.10.01: Water sources for China Yellow River dry up
• 09.10.01 :The Commission on Environment of the European Parliament approves the amendment against the Spanish National Hydrological Plan. (eng & fr)
  
• 04.10.01: A new strategy for the bulgarian danube islands will ensure the protection of natural floodplain forests
• 03.10.01: Groups attack report on Turkish dam
• 03.10.01: New Pacific Institute Report Examines Water Flow in Colorado River Delta Region
• 03.10.01: NGOs united to denounce the project of Ilisu dam, arguing that it could be in breach of European Human Rights Act (eng & deu)
  
• 21.09.01: UK: Half of people living in flood risk areas do not know
• 20.09.01: Vietnam floods claim 122, including 108 children
• 20.09.01: Job offer: ERN and SOS Loire Vivante are looking for a "Chargé(e) du programme d'éducation de la jeunesse à la gestion de l'eau et de l'environnement" (fr)
• 18.09.01: Creation of Latin America's largest freshwater protected area (WWF)
• 14.09.01: Court strikes down threatened salmon listing
• 14.09.01: New study on the pollution of the Black Sea
• 13.09.01: International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) thinks that "The WCD recommendations are not universally applicable" and could lead to "potentially disastrous" results "for developing countries".
• 13.09.01: ICOLD Meeting: Large Dams and the WCD - an NGO
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• 13.09.01: Symposium on Wetlands in the Tropical Urban Environment, 28, 29, 30 November 2001, Luang Prabang (Lao Pdr)
• 12.09.01: Hungary designates two new RAMSAR sites on the Slovak border
  
• 12.09.01: Trilateral RAMSAR platform Morava-Dyje floodplains
• 12.09.01: Long-awaited report. RAMSAR mission report on Ebro delta now available.
• 12.09.01: No one's bathing in it yet, but the Seine River flowing through Paris is less polluted and is attracting dozens of fish species, officials say.
• 12.09.01: International River Drava Day September 28, 2001
  
• 12.09.01: ICOLD 69th Annual Meeting, September 2001, Dresden
  
• 11.09.01: The Blue Marche brings its claims to the European Union in Brussels. (e & fr)
• 07.09.01: THE BLUE MARCHE ARRIVES IN BRUSSELS !
• 06.09.01: Japan power firm cancels hydro power plant plan
  
• 05.09.01: Portugal/Alqueva: Biggest Europe reservoir to start filling year end
• 03.09.01: USA: Missouri River plan criticized by green groups
• 01.09.01: The Blue Marche for a new Water Culture : Press Conference in Parliament House (Assemblée Nationale) in Paris on september 4th (fr)
  
• 29.08.01: The "Blue Marche For a New Water Culture in Europe" (Spain-Brussels) in Lyon and Paris
  
• 27.08.01 : 1000 salmons in Dordogne (fr)
• 24.08.01: USA: Farm pollution creating massive dead zones in bays and estuaries.
• 20.08.01: VIETNAM 100,000 to be forced out as dam project floods land
• 20.08.01: Sweden tightens criteria for "green" power
• 18.08.01: The Blue Marche will enter France on August 20th ! (fr)
  
• 16.08.01: A virtual discussion for the Bonn Freshwater Conference
• 16.08.01: Radioactive Russian waters worry Chelyabinsk Governor
• 15.08.01: Johannesburg 2002: The World Summit on Sustainable Development (also known as Rio + 10)
• 15.08.01: MANAGING SHARED WATERS Conference : Towards Sustainable Transboundary Coastal Ecosystems, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 24-28, 2002
• 14.08.01: PRESSURE RISING ON WORLD'S FRESH WATER SUPPLY
  
• 14.08.01: UN: 2003 will be the International Year of Fresh Water
• 13.08.01: Departure of the Blue Marche for a new water culture in Europe (eng &fr)
• 12.08.01: 2001 World Water Week in Stockholm and Stockholm Water Symposium have begun
• 10.08.01: Spain victim of its "hydroschizophrenia" (fr)
  
• 07.08.01: UK: Government launches new deal for hydroelectricity
• 06.08.01 : DAMS: Commission's spinoff to carry torch for reform
• 03.08.01: Brazil reviewing big Amazon hydroelectric plant
• 03.08.01: UK Rivers Network inaugural conference, Salisbury, Wilts 15/16th September 2001.
  
• 01.08.01 : Poland: Flood damages will increase in the future, if we do not reserve areas prepared for flooding - warned WWF (eng & germ)
• 01.08.01: EPA upholds plan to dredge Hudson River
• 01.08.01: Iran drought turns lakes to scorched earth
• 31.07.01 : Deadly flood in Poland
• 30.07.01: Nature has answer to global warming in France
  
• 27.07.01: Meeting on Globalization and Water Management, August 6-7, Dundee, Scotland.
• 27.07.01: Announcing The Agroecology Summit On August 10, 2001 At Willow Lake Farm (Near Windom, Minnesota)
• 24.07.01: New dam in Mali will cause starvation and destroy ancient city
  
• 23.07.01: Pakistan: Dams and Investments (Vision 2025)
• 14.07.01 : France and Portugal to introduce water tax
• 12.07.01 : Creating a hatchery implies decommissioning of dams (eng & fr)
  
• 11.07.01: The 2nd European Youth Water Congress in Barcs, Hungary ( July 11ht-19th 2001)
• 08.07.01 : The Tisza river, 18 months after the disaster. (fr)
• 07.07.01: First Working Meeting of the Ukrainian River Network
• 06.07.01 : Scotland needs to strengthen its water controls in order to comply with the European water directive
• 06.07.01 : France: the water bill released (fr)
  
• 05.07.01: Submissions of nominations for the Stockholm Water Prize.
• 04.07.01: UK report says 60,000 affected by Turkish dam plan
• 02.07.01: Europe/Spain: a Blue March for a new water culture (eng & fr)
• 01.07.01: UK to abandon support for the Ilisu dam
• 30.06.01: Programme to end environmental degradation in Nile Basin receives first funds
  
• 30.06.01: World Bank pledges US$ 27 million to improve water supply in Georgia
• 30.06.01: Ireland legislates to protect rivers, estuaries and lakes from eutrophication
• 30.06.01: Austria to use Danube for sustainable transport
  
• 27.06.01: China: Chongqing launches campaign to prevent a Three Gorges cesspool
• 27.06.01 : 2001 Riversymposium River Business Turning Community Vision into Reality, 29 to 31 August 2001, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• 25.06.01 : Growing problems of eutrophication in Ireland
• 22.06.01: France : Seine estuary : towards a better protection. (eng & fr)
• 21.06.01: Spanish parliament passes controversial water law
• 21.06.01: Dams accused of role in flooding
• 21.01.06: Indian rivers "dying a slow death"
  
• 20.06.01: Scottish Executive launches £180 million water improvement programme
• 19.06.01: Finnish Court Blocks Hydropower Dam In Eastern Lapland
  
• 14.06.01: 2nd Round of Danube Lawsuit in The Hague (IRN)
• 03.06.01: Mountain glaciers around the world are shrinking
• 03.06.01: North Atlantic wild salmon on brink of extinction - WWF
  
• 31.05.01: The Pak Moon dam a global example?
  
• 31.05.01: Floods inundate some parts of the world, while others are parched
• 31.05.01: Québec : people will be more involved in decisions concerning power stations (en & fr)
• 29.05.01: Fresh Initiative Taken To Refresh Nairobi River
  
• 29.05.01: National Park Service Detains Environmental Leaders At Lake Powell
• 29.05.01 : Quebec: 425 MW small hydro against outdoor enthusiasts
• 24.05.01: More Than One in Four Polluters Seriously Violating Clean Water Act Permits
• 23.05.01: USA: Water and Environmental Experts Directory Launched by Water Strategist Community (www.waterchat.com)
• 21.05.01: European Bathing Water Cleaner Again Last Year
• 21.05.01: Eastern Siberia Floods Worst In 100 Years
• 18.05.01: Marshlands Of The Tigris-Euphrates Delta 90 Percent Gone
• 16.05.01: Elbe river: Germany's Highest Court Fails to Halt Airbus Destruction of Protected Wetland Habitat
• 13.05.01: Dam Decommissioning in Czechia
• 12.05.01: North America: Salmon protection reinforced in Columbia river basin
  
• 12.05.01: Towards the Rio+10 and Beyond : E-Conference Invitation
• 11.05.01: Mekong: Chinese dams are threatening 100 millions people
• 11.05.01 : USA: Federal Energy Commission reaches for control of hydropower licensing
• 09.05.01 : Birth of the biggest European salmon hatchery on the Allier river, France (fr)
• 09.05.01 : Balfour Beatty faces dam clash
• 06.05.01: Wild chinook salmon may be extinct in 15 years
• 06.05.01: Russia: Greenpeace against water pollution by toxic chemicals
• 06.05.01 : USA: Environmentalists sue government over salmon
  
• 05.05.01: Widespread contamination threatens California's groundwater
• 05.05.01: Eastern European governments pledge to improve Danube and encourage sustainable development
• 05.05.01 : Portugal: Condemnation of Europe's largest reservoir project grows
  
• 02.05.01: " Water & Health ", May 31th & June 1st 2001, Palais des Congrès, Metz, France. (eng & fr)
• 01.05.01: Pak Mun Dam Gates to Open
• 01.05.01 : Turkey's Gediz delta left out of protective grant
  
• 30.04.01 : "Lyon - Fleuves 2001" conference : Scientists & decision makers: Acting together for sustainable management of our river systems, Palais des Congrès, Lyon, France, June 6th -8th (eng & fr)
• 28.04.01 : Mexico comes clean on its water problem
• 26.04.01 : International Conference on Fresh Water, Bonn, 3-7 December 2001.
• 24.01.01 : 2001 Goldman Prize awarded to environmental activists
• 24.04.01 : New Tearfund report: Global water crisis by 2025
• 23.04.01 : Croatia : Minister of Environment canceled a dam project on the Drava river (eng, fr & germ)
• 21.04.01 : China : New Gigantic Power Station in upper Mekong
  
• 20.04.01 : USA : The battle over the Clean Water Act moves towards resolution.
• 20.04.01 : New WWF report on the quality of European rivers
• 19.04.01 : Brazil : Dam-affected block access to IDB-funded dam project
  
• 18.04.01 : Danube River: UNIDO allocates funds for pollution reduction
• 17.04.01 : France : a new law on water is being prepared (french)
• 17.04.01 : Consumers are prevented from using water efficiency measures
• 13.04.01 : Thailand : Assembly of the Poor want amnesty for PM
• 11.04.01 : Energy Production, Sprawl Threaten America's Rivers
  
• 09.04.01 : WCD Mention in G8 Environment Summit Communiqué
• 05.04.01 : WCD Wins 2001 Institutional Award from International Association of Impact Assessment
• 05.04.01 : WCD: Changing of the Guard: New Director Appointed for Transition Period
  
• 04.04.01 : Portugal: Alqueva Dam: Over 1 million trees are to be cut down, and hundreds of people are being displaced.
• 03.04.01 : Energy giant wins award for wetland creation
• 02.04.01 : Expert on water re-use wins international environment award
• 31.03.01 : The Rhône river is ours ! ... against water privatization ... (french)
  
• 30.03.01 : Turkish environmentalist jailed upholding supreme court ruling
• 29.03.01 : "Water for People and Nature: a Forum on Conservation and Human Rights" - 5-8 July 2001 in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada.
• 29.03.01 : "Challenges of a Changing Earth" Conference - 10-13 July 2001 in Amsterdam.
• 28.03.01 : WHO (World Health Organisation) calls for health sector to become involved in water management.
  
• 27.03.01: NGO invests in Balfour Beatty (building company) shares to prevent Ilisu Dam project
• 26.03.01 : UK : Environment Agency calls for greater water resources for the future
  
• 21.03.01 : Position of the opponents of the World Commission on Dams recommendations.
• 20.03.01 : Latest NGO declarations concerning the WCD final report.
• 19.03.01 : The common letter of 85 NGOs to the World Bank (Follow-up to the World Commission on Dams)
  
• 19.03.01 : Water Symposium : New edition in Luzern (Switzerland) on July 15th 2001( following the great success of the 1st one ...)
• 18.03.01 : 2004 Olympic games in Greece are threatening wildlife habitats.
  
• 18.03.01 : Pakistan : Raising Height of Mangla to displace over 40000 people
• 17.03.01 : Flood plain drainage blamed for severity of Eastern Europe floods
• 16.03.01 : Petition to Stop the Bakun Dam
• 15.03.01 : "Minister Müller, say NO to Ilisu and Tehri dams !" (germ)
• 15.03.01 : Balfour Beatty company challenged over Ilisu Dam
  
• 15.03.01 : Medha Patkar, anti-dam activist, arrested in Bombay
• 15.03.01 : Portugese guarantee to Maheshwar Project refused
• 14.03.01 : Pakistan: Small dams planned all over country
• 14.03.01 : Dam protesters occupy Brazil's Ministry of Energy
• 13.03.01 : Protesters urge Spain to scrap water plan
  
• 13.03.01 : Malaisia : the government wants to go forward with the Bakun dam project !
• 13.03.01 : India / Koel Karo Dam : 8 anti-dam villagers killed by the police.
• 12.03.01: Announcement: International Day of Action Against Dams and for Rivers ,Water and Life
• 10.03.01 : Toxic chemicals found in Great Lakes salmon
  
• 10.03.01 : Mozambique 'inches from disaster'
• 09.03.01 : EU probed as German wetlands saga gets murkier.
• 09.03.01 : Mozambique : Floods Should Prompt Dam Rethink
• 09.03.01 : Record floods claim seven lives in Ukraine
  
• 06.03.01 : Medicinemen, activists pray for decommissioning of Navajo Dam.
• 04.03.01: China: Two more Yangtze dams planned
• 03.03.01 : UK : Non-profit company can go ahead with acquisition of Welsh Water
• 02.03.01: Controversial dam project in Belize.
  
• 02.03.01 : German justice allows the building of a highly controversial factory building on a protected wetland
• 28.02.01 : Conference announcement: The role of Water in History and Development
• 27.02.01 : Sand muddies legal waters in German wetland fight
  
• 25.02.01 : Thousands march in Spain to protest the national hydraulic plan
• 23.02.01 : Controversial US dams violate Clean Water Act
• 17.02.01 : Spanish government approves controversial water plan
• 16.02.01 : Water for People and Nature: A Forum on Conservation and Human Rights
  
• 14.02.01 : China : Official internal documents say that the Three Gorges dam will lead to huge environmental problems and will not provide the promised flood control.
• 12.02.01 : Portugal : Activists are fighting against the biggest dam project of Europe.
• 04.02.01: Court upholds protection of river Danube
• 02.02.01 : World Wetlands Day
  
• 01.02.01 : Indian Quake Shakes Up Fear Of Dam Collapse
• 28.01.01 : Ghana: The Bui hydroelectric project will flood a National Park
• 26.01.01 : Three Gorges : a huge river diversion scheme is to begin next year.
• 22.01.01 : Romania reports river pollution with cyanide
• 19.01.01 : Gold Hill Dam Removal Becomes Military Exercise
• 14.01.01 : India's Ganges, a holy river of pollution
• 14.01.01 : Publication of an EEB report on the Water Framework Directive and the European Union Water Policy
  
• 11.01.01 : Kenyan Dam Protester Arrested
• 08.01.01 : Spain appeals ruling in toxic spill case
• 03.01.01 : Norway : Prime Minister announced the end of large-scale hydropower developments
• 02.01.01 : Announcement of an international conference on the impact of reservoirs to the emissions of greenhouse gases.
• 01.01.01 : The text of the Water Framework Directive (EU) is online (in all languages).
  
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