The era of dam building is by no means over in Southern Africa - Lesotho Highlands Phase 1B is under construction whilst Phase 2 hangs over our heads like a specter of future livelihoods lost. The other Southern African Countries are following suit with dams being planned in Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and each time a river is dammed it is degraded that much more. For those who are interested in receiving updated information on either the World Commission on Dams or the regional water network, please contact the author at the contact details given below. The World Commission on Dams is in fact long overdue, and we wait with bated breath to discover whether or not the it has the courage and the foresight to question the faulty development paradigm which shadows the era of the large dams, and to lead us into a future which places people at the centre of development and restores the linkages between people and the ancient things - earth, forest, water and air. The Environmental Monitoring Group is based in Cape Town, and has been acting as a liaison between the Secretariat of the World Commission on Dams, and both the global and regional networks of environmental NGOs, human rights groups and communities affected by large dams.
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