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” target=”_blank”>Myitsone hydropwer project would have submerged the confluence of the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State and created a reservoir the size of Singapore. The project is the central part of a seven-dam cascade proposed to be built with $20 billion in Chinese investment. It is located in one of the world’s top biodiversity hotspots, would displace 12,000 people, and would irreversibly affect Burma’s central river system and rice-growing area.
The Myitsone Dam is strongly opposed by the Kachin People’s Organization, Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, civil society organizations in Burma, and their partner groups in China, Thailand, and around the world. International Rivers is supporting the Burmese NGOs through technical analysis, corporate research and international awareness-raising.
International Rivers is an environmental and human rights organization with staff in four continents. For over two decades, International Rivers has been at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities that depend on them.