Dammed and dying: The Mekong and its communities face a bleak future
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1177258,00.html

John Vidal
Thursday March 25, 2004
The Guardian

One of the world's greatest rivers has been reduced to a trickle in
places by a series of giant Chinese dams and engineering works which
are threatening the livelihoods of up to 100 million people in
south-east Asia.

A body representing four downstream governments reported yesterday
that the Mekong was at its lowest recorded level, flowing "close to
rock bottom" near the end of a 3,000 mile journey that takes it from
the Tibetan plateau, through China's Yunnan province, Burma, Thailand,
Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Where have all the fish gone?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=513488

The mighty Mekong is drying up - and so is the river's rich harvest.
Vast new dams in China could be to blame. Fred Pearce reports from
Cambodia

21 April 2004


Once, the world's rivers teemed with fish. No longer. Around the
globe, dams and other river engineering projects have drastically
reduced most inland fisheries. But on one mighty river, the Mekong in
South-east Asia, half a century of warfare had kept the dam-builders
away. As a result, even the poorest people in countries such as
Cambodia can still dine regularly on wild river fish.

But now the engineers have moved on to the river, and the effects are
already being felt. Scientists blame new Chinese hydroelectric dams
for the record low levels of the river this spring, for weird
fluctuations in river flows, and above all for a collapse in fish
catches. Is this the end for one of the world's last great untamed
rivers?

Mekong
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Vietnam Vietnamese
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Cambodia OR Cambodian OR Cambodians
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Laos OR Laotian OR Laotians
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Thailand Thai Thais
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Burma Burmese Myanmar
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Yunnan
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Tibet Tibetan Tibetans
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China Chinese Sino Han
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Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6

A Blueprint for the Future
http://tinyurl.com/9vga