The Burma Project is actively engaged in efforts to protect Southeast Asia’s longest free flowing river, the Salween River, from large-scale hydropower development. The Salween runs along the Thai-Burmese border and has more than thirteen indigenous and ethnic minority groups living in traditional communities along its banks. Working with the Salween Watch Coalition ERI collects on-the ground information from the proposed dam sites in Burma, and works to raise awareness about human rights abuses and environmental degradation that will accompany dam construction. ERI also works with Coalition members to stop planned dams on the upper Salween River in China (know as the Nu river.)
Click here to read the current Salween Watch Coalition Newsletter.
