Tajikistan bets on giant dam to solve electricity crisis

Makhmudzoda's three children and wife were sitting huddled together to share the phone's flashlight in their modest brick home. A shortage of water needed to fuel hydroelectric plants has led to serious power outages in Tajikistan, a poor former Soviet republic nestled in the Central Asian mountains and surrounded by Afghanistan, China, and fellow ex-Soviet states Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The power crisis is only set to worsen, as Central Asia is hard-hit by climate change. Amid chronic shortages...