No. 273 / November 1995

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Flood of Protest
Leave our rivers alone!

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• Editor's Letter
  
  
• Flood of protest - leave our rivers alone!
  The new alchemists of engineering have become expert in turning water to concrete. Richard Swift measures the costs to the world's rivers and their peoples.
  
  
• Current follies
  Suggestions on why not to 'dam the river and full speed ahead'?
  
  
• Rivers know no boundaries
  Max Finkelstein paddles Canada's wilderness Thelon River and Africa's mighty Zambesi in search of outer similarities and inner truths.
  
  
• Conversation with a maverick
  Renegade water engineer Phil Williams sounds off
  
  
• One more river to cross
  The dam-building business turns private and heads South. Catherine Stewart is on its trail.
  
  
• RIVERS - THE FACTS
  
  
• Tale of two rivers - Delta blues: the Nile
  All is not rosy downstream from Egypt's Aswan High Dam. Karim El-Gawhary talks to the farmers and fishers of the Nile delta.
  
  
• The Spirit Trap: the Mekong
  The people of the islands of southern Laos who fish the Mekong for their living are worried. Grainne Ryder lends an ear.
  

• Simply - Kings of the water

• Ping Ping and the Grannnd Projeccct
  Mo Lu's fantasy about how to treat spoiled kids.
  
  
• Dam-busters!
  The people of the South are asking sharp questions of the master water-planners who claim the mantle of science and progress. Fred Pearce sees the tables turning.
  

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• Letters
  
• Letter from Russia
  
• Update
  
• The NI Interview with Manuel Patarroyo
  
• Reviews: plus Philip Glass classic
  
• Curiosities
  
• Endpiece: by Neil Christie-Ormond
  
• Country profile: Honduras

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