Perspectives on Burma’s waterways have been polarised into two competing positions: focusing on developing its vast hydropower potential and advocating for local communities’ needs and concerns.

For centuries, the Irrawaddy River has served as Burma’s main riverine artery, but what does the future hold for this important waterway?

The ongoing Strategic Environmental Assessment of the hydropower sector in Myanmar does not determine the fate of planned or future hydropower projects and rather is a tool for decision-makers to be better informed of countrywide environmental and social risks.

A coalition of 422 civil society and environmental groups are calling on the government to halt all proposed coal and large-scale hydropower projects, citing a raft of negative impacts on vulnerable local communities.

Joern Kristensen, the director of the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development, speaks to DVB about Burma's options for meeting its energy needs.

A new documentary from DVB examines efforts to save one of Asia's last freely flowing rivers from the potentially devastating impact of planned mega-dams.