Norway could generate much more hydropower, given a market.
Officials in several provinces have seized on the shortages as reason to develop more hydropower.
New plans for solar parks and more hydropower are also trumpeted.Nothing will fix Pakistan's energy problems quickly.
Implementation of e-flows is therefore a priority as Zambia considers to install more hydropower facilities.
It's certainly harder to argue to "protect the silt" than it is to, say, Free Willy or save the whales -- but perhaps that is what we need to do to get it through the heads of those now arguing that climate change calls for more hydropower.
Vietnam, for example, depends much more on natural gas and hydropower than coal for its electric power, says Cherry, such that electric cars there cause one-third as much pollution as gasoline cars and one-tenth as much pollution overall as they do in China.
Hydropower from the run-of-the-river scheme is more suitable than hydropower from the reservoir scheme because of the many mountains in this province.
"There are other far less harmful ways to generate as much energy as the country needs, ways which can be brought into operation more quickly than hydropower.
By one recent count, there are more than 80 hydropower projects in various stages of preparation and construction for the Mekong and its tributaries.
Over all, officials have said more than 100 hydropower stations could be built on the upper Yangtze basin within two decades.
