Dam Sources
This is an ongoing (endless) list of sites providing news and resources about dams. Please add new sources, websites, or blogs in the comments section.
Water/River conservation organizations
La Alianza: Ríos y Cuencas de Costa Rica
North American Megadam Resistance Alliance
South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People
Reports
PBS NOVA history of dams in US
National Geographic Resource Library: Dams
The World Commission on Dams 2000 Report
Newspapers and Websites
Achtenberg, Emily and Currents, Rebel. 2017. The Growing Resistance to megadams in Bolivia. Nacla.
Fearnside, Philip. 2020. Many rivers, too many dams. The New York Times.
Fischer, William. 1999. Going Under: Indigenous Peoples and the struggle against large dams. Cultural Survival.
Lapniten, Karlston. 2021. The river will bleed red. Mongabay.
Vidal, John. 2017. Why is Latin America so obsessed with megadams? The Guardian.
Wilt, James. 2019. Projects of death. The Narwhal.
News from the Climate and Hydropower Industry
The International Hydropower Association
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
United Nations Climate Change News - How Hydropower can help
Academic Open-source Articles
Cummings, Barbara. 1995. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People.
Fearnside, Philip. 2005. Do hydroelectric dams mitigate global warming?
Fearnside, Philip. 2015. Tropical hydropower in the Clean Development Mechanism
Fearnside, Philip. 2016. Greenhouse gas emissions from Brazil’s dams.
Fearnside, Philip. 2017. Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam.
Fearnside, Philip. 2019. Represas hidroeléctricas en la Amazonia brasileña (Spanish)
Hamududu, Byman and Killingtveit, Aanund. 2012. Assessing climate change impacts on global hydropower.
Lindo, Victoria. 2006. Hydroelectric power production in Costa Rica.
Moran, Emilio et al. 2018. Sustainable Hydropower in the 21st Century.
Moore, Dore, and Gyawali. 2010. The World Commission on Dams +10.
Perry, Denielle and Praskievicz, Sarah. 2017. A new era of big infrastructure?
Rosenberg, McCully, and Pringle. 2000. Global-scale Environmental Effects of Hydrological Alterations.
Thieme, Michele et al. 2020. Dams and protected areas: Quantifying the spatial and temporal extent of global dam construction within protected areas.
Zarfl, Christiane, et al. 2015. A global boom in hydropower
Books
Abbey, Edward. 1975. The Monkey Wrench Gang. read about it here.
Folch, Christine. 2019. Hydropolitics.
Lakhani, Nina. 2020. Who killed Berta Cáceras? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet.
McCully, Patrick. 2001. Silenced Rivers: Politics and Ecology of Large Dams.
Muehlmann, Shaylih. 2013. Where the River ends.
Oliver-Smith, Anthony. 2009. Development and Dispossession.
Scudder, Thayer. 2005. The Future of Large Dams.
Willow, Anna. 2019. Understanding ExtrACTIVISM
Films, Documentaries, and multimedia
Changing Currents. Website and film about Indigenous relations with water.
DamNation: The Problem with Hydropower. Film.
Let’s Move: A film by Willard Napash
Return of the River. Film about dam removal.
Blog by Sally Jewell 2016. Department of the Interior.