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Kenya plans to seek investors to help build seven dams at a cost of $2.4 billion, according the National Treasury’s Public Private Partnerships Directorate. The government plans to sign water-purchase agreements with investors who will…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Large-scale infrastructure projects can profoundly affect local economies, but assessing these effects is…

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Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from deckhand to riverboat captain, he came ashore in 2001 to work as a lock and dam operator for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He…

The figures might not add up now, but the amount of untapped energy available ought to be hard to ignore. Coles and his colleagues found that tidal stream power has the potential to meet 11 percent of the UK’s current annual electricity…

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The world’s energy infrastructure is at “significant” risk from climate change, as extreme weather events threaten dams, thermal power plants and nuclear stations, the World Meteorological Organization said this week.In its latest report,…

Spanish hydropower dams are on course to end the summer at their lowest level in three decades, putting more pressure on electricity costs as Europe’s energy crisis widens. Hydro capacity stood at 36.9% in the week through August 23, the…

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — High on a mountain in the Himalayas, pristine drops fall from the mouth of a tiger statue installed at a stream thought to form the…

By DEEPA BHARATH - Associated Press ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths and rushes through steep canyon walls just before…