Hydropower modernization: Policy, technology and global implications for net zero transitions
By Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2025. Article published in World Atlas of Hydropower & Dams… Read More
By Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas, 2025. Article published in World Atlas of Hydropower & Dams… Read More
October 23, 2025
Both China and India have thousands of years of experience on how to manage water to reduce the impacts of serious floods and droughts. Empires have fallen in both countries when the Kings have failed to manage water properly. Here, Asit Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada discuss how China has overtaken India as the world’s biggest builder of dams, and the importance of dams to both country’s futures.… Read More
By Abdul Mohammed Mokter Hossain, Md Sarwar Hossain and Cecilia Tortajada, 2025. Article published in World Food Policy, Volume 11, Issue 2, e70015.… Read More
October 4, 2025
China and India embarked on big dam construction at about the same time. But China is a leader in hydropower today, with an installed capacity 10 times that of India… Read More
September-November 2025
Special Issue on Meeting China’s Water Challenges: Festschrift Honouring Academician Liu Changming… Read More
While China’s economic miracle is well-known, what is less recognized is its remarkable advance in many scientific and technological fields, especially in renewable energy, since 2000.… Read More
By Justine Perry T. Domingo, Antonio P. Contreras, Cecilia Tortajada, Decibel V. Faustino-Eslava, Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, Richard D. Williams and Patrick Byrne, 2025. Article published in Environmental Research Letters, Volume 20, Number 9.… Read More
May 23, 2025
Human knowledge had doubled every century until about 1900. Doubling time reduced to 25 years by the end of World War II and 13 months by 2010. By 2035, it may double every 12 hours.… Read More
May 22, 2025
As tensions rise between India and Pakistan and India suspends the Indus Waters Treaty, both countries have to completely reimagine how they share water. … Read More
May 22, 2025
By 2027, China’s water-saving industry scale is set to hit 1 trillion yuan. This article explore how the nation’s innovative fusion of green finance & policy is overcoming financing bottlenecks & what the world can take from its playbook.… Read More