Sep 12, 2022 | News, The Volta river basin and Ghana
A new documentary film ‘Ghana’s Electric Dreams’ has been released presenting the story of the planning and wide-ranging impact of the Akosombo Dam, Ghana’s most ambitious development project. A unique collaboration between filmmaker R. Lane Clark and historian...
Mar 23, 2022 | News, Research
March 2022 Under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Chairman of the Higher Council for Science and Technology, the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), Methods for Irrigation and Agriculture...
Mar 14, 2022 | News, Water resources
Within the FutureDAMs research project, the Water Resources Group of The University of Manchester and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) organized a 5-day workshop on the methods and tools produced in FutureDAMs for modelling...
Jan 25, 2022 | News, Social impacts
The new IIED briefing from Jamie Skinner and Christopher Schulz sets out a series of policy recommendations for sharing the benefits of hydropower to improve displaced people’s livelihoods. ‘Benefit sharing’ is not yet widely understood and there are...