Laos Moves Forward Plans to Build Seventh Large-Scale Mekong River Dam

The Lao federal government has actually moved on plans to build what would be the nation’s seventh big dam on the Mekong River, another project in the nation’s enthusiastic technique to end up being the “Battery of Southeast Asia” in the face of deepening social and ecological issues. Locals of Laos and Thailand, along with […]

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China’s Mekong River Dams Compounded 2019 Drought, US-Funded Study Claims

China compounded a drought that ravaged fishing and farming neighborhoods on the Mekong River in 2015 by limiting the circulation of big quantities of water downstream from 11 of its dams, a U.S. research study company stated in a study launched Monday. Satellite measurements of “surface wetness” showed that the Chinese dams in the Upper […]

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