Will the Mekong River Really Become the Next South China Sea?
October 5th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look – amid competition between China and the U.S. – at how the question of the river?s fate has been imbued with a strategic undercurrent: In recent years, the fate of Southeast Asia?s great river ? the Mekong ? has attracted growing international scrutiny. The Mekong faces many challenges, from the […]
Read more »Saving The Mekong Delta From Drowning
May 12th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on the Mekong Delta: Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires urgent, concerted action among countries in the region to lessen the impact of upstream dams and better manage water and sediments […]
Read more »The Mekong Delta?s Transboundary Water Problems
May 3rd, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, a report on the Mekong delta?s transboundary water problems: The Mekong River is the lifeblood of countries in the Mekong region, but the past few years have seen?water flows?recurringly decline and processes of saltwater intrusion accelerating in the Vietnamese Mekong delta. These?transboundary hydrological challenges?have detrimental effects on millions of people living […]
Read more »Hydropower Dams Have Had ?Profound? Impact on Mekong River, Monitor Claims
March 9th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, an article on how a?year of data from the Mekong Dam Monitor shows the extent of the impact on Southeast Asia?s longest river: Hydropower projects, including a spree of mega-dams in China, have had a significant impact on the midstream reaches of the Mekong River, exacerbating drought conditions and altering the river?s […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Red Flag River and China?s Downstream Neighbors
October 23rd, 2021
Via The Diplomat,?an article on China’s?proposed mega-water transfer project is already sparking fears amongst countries downstream of the impacted rivers: The?Red Flag River Water Diversion Project Proposal?(Red Flag River) is a new enormous inter-basin water diversion proposal in China. It is not an official project and has not received approval from the Chinese government; however,?since […]
Read more »US, China Dueling For Power On The Mekong
September 6th, 2021
Via The Asia Times, a report on how the countries sharing the Lancang-Mekong River are entering a new era of hydropolitics, involving programs on both economic and water resource development, and hydro-diplomacy via China?s dam-engineered control of the headwaters of the Mekong: When China announced in early August a new US$6 million for new development […]
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