The Mekong Delta is disappearing right in front of our eyes, but we think we can save it with empty promises.
Category: Mekong
It’s time for Climate Bonds Initiative to scrap its hydro certification scheme
Proponents of hydropower are out in full force in Madrid this week, keen to profit from and perpetuate the myth of hydropower’s climate benefits.
Mekong River’s aquamarine hue likely to occur elsewhere due to low flows, bringing possible risks
The analysis has indicated that the extremely low flows now being experienced in the Mekong, during one of the worst droughts ever experienced in the region, have changed the water color.
ASEAN to take immediate steps to combat drought in SE Asia
“Regional co-operation, especially among nations benefiting from the Mekong River, is needed to support national efforts to manage drought through data, technology, innovations, policy and financing options.”
Mekong River dying a slow but certain death
Massive new hydropower dams are parching the once mighty river’s water levels to lowest in 60 years
Mekong River region on more minds
If Vietnam as ASEAN chair has its way, the Mekong may soon become an ASEAN matter, providing the five riparian countries more leverage in grappling with China’s unilateral hogging of water in the upper reaches of the river.
Mekong left starving
Apart from the damage it will cause to agriculture and the fishing industry, the now ocean-blue river is naturally hungry for nutrients and will start absorbing sediments attached to its banks.
Save the Mekong With Floating Solar
Will the decision-makers in Vientiane and Phnom Penh forego the hydropower projects that they endorsed many years ago, before environmental impacts were properly understood and when wind and solar power alternatives were hardly conceivable?
The Great Walls On Mekong: Dams Of Fate
Dams are barriers to the migration route of 30 percent of fish species in the Mekong River, and being unable to cross them means that the entire sequence of their natural life is perturbed.
Diplomatic efforts needed to prevent impacts of upstream Mekong dams
Mekong Delta authorities ask Vietnamese officials to address the inter-Governmental Mekong River Commission and step up diplomatic efforts to deal with countries upstream that are threatening the river’s flow.