Status Updates From Last Days of the Mighty Mek...

Despite the warning call, Laos continues to dam the Mekong mainstream, issuing a June 2018 announcement of the Pak Lay Dam, the fourth dam to be built on the mainstream of the Mekong.

Placing trust in an engineered system assumes a country can continue to cope with increased climate change risks and costs of maintenance, retiring, or failure of those projects.

When the French arrived in Phnom Penh in the mid-1800s, the interior of the capital, except for a few palaces, was dominated by lakes and wetlands managed by the Angkorian monarchy.

In 2014, The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched a “Say No to Don Sahong Dam” campaign citing the dam’s potential impact to the food security of millions in the Mekong region. “More than a quarter of a million people around the world are sending a strong and clear message to Mega First.

He claims that villagers are finally seeing how fish conservation, when carried out correctly, produces an abundance of fish. “It’s taken a long time because at first, they thought we were protecting the fish and reducing their access. Now fish catches are getting better and so are the villager’s livelihoods

This book could serve as a companion for the more curious traveler passing through the basin. At the same time, an educated reader, academic scholar, and policymaker should find the book useful because it exposes the risks to the current mode of economic development and discusses pathways forward to improve development practices and protect the core ecology of the river basin.