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All over the world, people are fighting to protect their rivers and their livelihoods from new dams. They are demanding compensation for problems caused by old dams. And they are proposing better alternatives for energy, water supply and flood management. But they need your help to succeed!

Please take a moment to respond to these Action Alerts and make your voice heard!

Save the town of Hasankeyf, Turkey!

Hands Off Hasankeyf (Credit: Doga Dernegi)

The German Government supports the construction of the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River in southeast Turkey, which will displace at least 50,000 people, most of them Kurdish, and flood the 10,000-year-old town of Hasankeyf. Last year the German government granted export credit guarantees for the project, justified by attaching environmental and social conditions to the contracts. Now a new expert report suggests that these conditionalities are not being followed.

• Ask the German Government to stop supporting the Ilisu Dam!

A Cavalcade to Stop the Dams

Two of Chile's wild and pristine rivers, the Baker and the Pascua, are under attack. These rivers are social and ecological lifelines for Chilean Patagonia. But an Italian company, Enel, wants to dam these rivers for no more than 50 years of electricity generation.