changing the tides of the river and affecting the livelihoods of millions of fishermen." In 2011 widespread protests broke out against the dam. Outside Myanmar, activists from both environmental ...

along the country’s Irrawaddy River, was supposed to export about 90% of the electricity it generated to China, Myanmar’s northern neighbor. China had considered the dam an important part of a ...

This story appears in the May 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine. I've always believed the best way to know a river is to paddle it, to feel its undercurrents and speed, to take in the ...

VIENTIANE -Myanmar’s ongoing crisis ... The 4,900km-long river, which originates in China, has been decimated over the years by rapid dam building in riparian countries as well as climate ...