International Rivers regularly publishes and distributes print materials with the purpose of informing and educating the public about issues related to rivers and dams. All of our materials are available for free, and can be downloaded from our website and reprinted without restriction.
More Factsheets can be found on The River Resource Hub.
Energy
- Grand Inga: Misplaced Hopes available in English and French (2023)
- Seeing Green: Hydropower to Hydrogen, the Latest False Climate Solution (English and French) (2022)
Human Rights
- The Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Dam Disaster: Situation Update Two Years On (2020)
- A Dangerous Trajectory for the Mekong River (2017)
- African Dams, Rivers, and Rights (2013)
- The Salween River Basin (2012) (Also available in Thai, Chinese, or Burmese)
- Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam: Sowing Hunger and Conflict (2011)
Corporate Accountability
- Swindling the Mekong: Run-of-River Hydro (2017) (Also available in Thai, Khmer or Vietnamese)
- Activist Guides to Sinohydro’s Environment and Social Policies (2014)
- New Hope for Environmental Justice in IFI Projects (2014)
- The World Bank’s Big Dam Legacy (2007)
- Greenwashing Dams (2011) (Also available in Português, Español, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Turkish, or Lao)
Freshwater Ecosystems & Biodiversity
- Guinea’s Koukoutamba Dam: A White Elephant in the Making (Also available in French) (2022)
- Tragic Trade-Offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong (2019) (Also available in Thai, Lao, Khmer and Vietnamese)
- Patagonia’s Rivers at Risk (2011)
- Patagonia’s Wild Rivers At Risk (2009)
Climate Justice
- The World Bank and Dams Part 4: Behind the Times on Renewable Energy (2016)
- Futuro de la Energía en Perú: Estrategias Energéticas Sostenibles (2016)
- Greater Mekong Subregion Energy Investments: Concerns and Recommendations (2015) (Also available in Vietnamese, Thai, or Khmer)
- Congo’s Energy Divide Factsheet (2013) (Also available in French)
- Wrong Climate for Big Dams (2011) (Also available in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Bangla, German, Urdu, Russian)