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A Dam(n) Shame: Specter of Dams and Diversion Looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River
June 26th, 2025
Via Mongabay, a look at the specter of dams and diversion that looms over Southeast Asia’s Salween River: The Salween River, one of Asia’s last free-flowing rivers, supports Indigenous communities and biodiversity across China, Myanmar and Thailand, but faces threats from at least 20 proposed hydropower dams, mainly in Myanmar. Myanmar’s postcoup instability has stalled […]
Read more »Luang Prabang Dam and Hydropower Pursuits along the Mekong: Are They Really ‘Clean Energy’ Projects?
December 3rd, 2024
Via Eco Business, a closer look at how the Mekong River ‘energy transition’ deals are backed, revealing gaps in the lending policies of banks in the Mekong subregion: From disappearing fish species to an exceptionally severe dry season, there is now clear indication that excessive damming is taking a toll on the Mekong. These impacts on the transboundary river […]
Read more »The Intensifying Impacts of Upstream Dams on the Mekong
July 27th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how the Mekong Delta of Vietnam stands to be most in danger in the time of accelerating and intersecting impacts from climate change and hydropower: This year marked another record-setting dry season for the Mekong basin. Mekong Environment Forum, an NGO based in Can Tho City, has assisted the […]
Read more »Citizens Mobilizing Against Thai Hydropower
April 15th, 2024
Via the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a report on how citizens are using information to battle against hydropower projects on the Mekong: To counter the marginalization of community input in hydropower project planning, civil society organizations (CSOs) share information on the ecological and economic effects of dams during the Environmental Impact Assessment’s advised “policy window” […]
Read more »Mekong River: Future of Water Cooperation In The Region
March 21st, 2024
Via China Water Risk, an interesting interview on the Mekong River Commission Secretariat which discusses the organisation’s priorities, the changing landscape of the Mekong River & the future of water cooperation in the region: In this interview we sit down with Dr. Anoulak Kittikoun, CEO of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRC) to discuss the organisation’s priorities, […]
Read more »Cambodia to Divert Mekong Trade via China-Built Canal, Vexing Vietnam
March 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on a planned Phnom Penh-coast link raises alarms amid regional influence tussle: From his house on the banks of the Mekong River, an hour from Phnom Penh, Mao Sarin can watch ships laden with containers chug by on their way to Vietnam and the giant river delta. If the […]
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