Mekong basin nations agree on a new dry-season water-sharing schedule
A six-country commission has adopted a revised release schedule for upstream dams, aiming to stabilise downstream flows during the region's lengthening dry season.
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A single publication for a subject that never stops at a border: the rivers that carry water, power, food and conflict across the map.
River Digest is the monthly magazine of the International Institute of River Affairs (IIRA), an autonomous institute under the SAIARD Trust. We report on the governance, science and stewardship of the world's river systems — from transboundary water treaties to community-led restoration on a single tributary.
Our newsroom works with hydrologists, policy makers, river-basin authorities and local reporters on every inhabited continent, so that a dam debate in the Mekong basin and a drought in the Colorado basin are covered with the same rigor, in the same place.
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A six-country commission has adopted a revised release schedule for upstream dams, aiming to stabilise downstream flows during the region's lengthening dry season.
Negotiators agree on a short extension while long-term operating guidelines for the basin's reservoirs remain under discussion.
Floodplain reconnected to the river in a joint Austrian–Slovak project shows measurable gains in fish spawning grounds and flood buffering.
The initiative would link gauging stations across four countries into a single alert system ahead of the next wet season.
Researchers tie rising turbidity in several tributaries directly to land clearance in their upper catchments.
Six desks, one deck — every card here has cleared the same editorial bar for basin-wide significance this month.
A running index of major basins, updated as governance and conditions change.
Sustains roughly one in twelve people on earth across its densely populated basin.
Eleven riparian states share the basin under the evolving Nile Basin Initiative framework.
Discharges more freshwater than the next seven largest rivers in the world combined.
Flows through six countries; upstream dam operation remains its central governance question.
The most internationalised river basin on earth, crossing ten sovereign states.
Supplies seven US states and two Mexican states, all now operating under shortage rules.
Home to Victoria Falls and a growing network of shared hydropower agreements.
China's principal inland waterway and a focus of ongoing biodiversity recovery efforts.
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Rivers without borders.
Urban flood defence and river-facing planning, city by city.
Weighing hydropower against fish passage and sediment flow.
Who bears the cost when a basin's driest year arrives.
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