China’s Mekong Plans Threaten Disaster for Countries Downstream

Foreignpolicy

Beijing is building hydroelectric dams and dredging to allow bigger boats as worries of environmental devastation grow.
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BANGKOK — Thirty million people depend for a living on the Mekong, the great Asian river that runs through Southeast Asia from its origins in the snowfields of Tibet to its end in the delta region of Vietnam, where it fertilizes one of the world’s richest agricultural areas. It’s the greatest freshwater fishery on the planet, second only to the Amazon in its riparian biodiversity. If you control its waters, then you control much of the economy of Southeast Asia. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Mekong Plans Threaten Disaster for Countries Downstream”

ANTICIPATED GEOMORPHIC IMPACTS FROM MEKONG BASIN DAM CONSTRUCTION

By Z.K RUBIN, G.M. KONDOLF, AND P. CARLING (2014)

Dam locations are indicated for two scenarios: definite future, and full-build. 
Main stream dams are included in full-build scenario, but represented separately.


Bedrock channel of the Mekong River with surficial sand deposits 1-2 m thick, near Xayaburi, Laos. (photo by Kondolf, January 2012) Tiếp tục đọc “ANTICIPATED GEOMORPHIC IMPACTS FROM MEKONG BASIN DAM CONSTRUCTION”