The water level, 2.60m, is about 10 metres below the spill-over point on the Mekong river bank, which is 13m high. In the same period last year, the water was about 12m high.
Category: Mekong
Nearly 500 Families to be Displaced This Month for Laos’ Fifth Mekong River Dam
According to the official, plans for compensation are not complete. Authorities are still collecting information about losses each family will incur because of the displacement.
Good news for the Mekong
The Director-general of Electricite du Cambodge does not want to see the proposed Mekong River mainstream hydropower projects of Sambor and Stung Treng as part of the energy mix going forward.
Mekong Ganga Cooperation meet discusses draft action plan
They also discussed the draft MGC Plan of Action (2019-22) to be adopted at the 10th MGC ministerial meeting in Bangkok on August 1, 2019.
People’s network takes on China over Mekong
Thai riverside communities and environmentalists spent the weekend having a hot debate with the Chinese Embassy in Beijing about its use snd abuse of the Mekong River.
The Mekong in US Asia Strategy: Opportunities and Challenges
The subregion is arguably where freedom and openness are under the greatest challenge.
Thailand encourages South Korean investment in Mekong subregion development projects
Mekong-ROK is a cooperation scheme comprising South Korea and the Mekong basin states to forge cooperation on economic development.
Villagers in Laos and Thailand Suffer as China Opens the Floodgates on Mekong River Dams
The recent opening of floodgates caused water levels in the Mekong to increase as much as 3.7 meters in some places, the largest in 37 years.
Thailand tops UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rank in ASEAN
Thailand was ranked 19th. Other Mekong countries: Vietnam 54th, Myanmar 110th, Laos 111th and Cambodia 112th