Press: Probe International in the News

The flood control capacity of the Three Gorges Dam is substantially less than officially stated, analysts and former officials say.  read more »

Thirty-five years on from the horrific Banqiao Dam disaster, heavy flooding is causing some Chinese to wonder whether the new Three Gorges Dam is an engineering triumph or a tragedy waiting to happen.  read more »

A new report claims residents displaced by China's massive South-North Water Diversion Project will be compensated at a higher rate than residents displaced by the Three Gorges dam. Part of the reason: private developers paying more to acquire land prompted project officials to raise compensation in order to avoid civil unrest, says Patricia Adams of Probe International.

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One reason the compensation for the south-north project was higher than for the Three Gorges Dam was that private developers were paying more to acquire land, said Patricia Adams, executive director of Probe International, an environmental advocacy group.  read more »

The solution to Beijing's long-term water shortage is not heavy spending on large-scale infrastructure projects such as the South-North Water Diversion Project, a recently published report says.  read more »

Many look to the U.S. as the necessary catalyst for change say watchdog groups, such as Probe International. The U.S. essentially subsidizes Pakistan’s economy by providing billions in foreign aid, giving the Pakistani government little incentive to reform the tax system. Thus, indirectly, U.S. aid inevitably hurts Pakistan's poor.  read more »

Driven by China's desperate need for clean energy from hydroelectric projects, China's Xiangjiaba dam will be the country's third largest in terms of its power-generating capacity. However, many experts are critical of the human costs of building large dams. Celebrated journalist and Probe International Fellow Dai Qing believes corruption lies at the core of the problem.  read more »

The countries that share the Nile River basin – Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo – are tired of Egypt, and to a lesser extent Sudan, dictating the terms of the river water’s usage. The upriver countries recently signed a water-sharing agreement more favourable to their interests that then created a diplomatic standoff with Egypt.  read more »

According to Probe International, an independent advocacy group, foreign aid provides financially unsound countries with a crutch – and gives little incentive for reform as long as free money is flowing in from other parts of the world  read more »

Southwest China is enduring a savagely long drought, forcing the government to resort to cloud-seeding measures Yet artificial rain has been slight, and not enough for the farmers who haven't seen natural rain since October.  read more »