The first $900-million phase of a mammoth project to pump water from the Red Sea to the shrinking Dead Sea on the Israel-Jordan border—along with boosted water and power supply facilities for the region—has attracted design-construction proposals from teams that include 17 global firms.
Hydropower, which accounts for 33,320.80 MW of India’s total installed power capacity of 200,000 MW, still has undeveloped potential for an estimated 36 GW, says India's Central Electricity Authority, a statutory body under the Ministry of Power.
Even as India moves to complete by this fall a planned 45-MW hydroelectric project on the Indus River, it still faces objections from neighboring Pakistan to the structure's design and to the award of U.N. carbon credits.
The development of big-ticket hydroelectric projects in Peru seems to be on a collision course with both Brazilian financial backers and indigenous groups, who object to being displaced and having their land despoiled.
