But as China completed one, then two, and then seven dams upstream, the few hundred residents of Ban Pak Ing saw the Mekong change. The sudden fluctuations in water levels interfere with fish ...

Shifting monsoonal climate patterns that affect the availability of water in the Mekong River Basin are raising questions among experts about the sustainability of hydropower as a long-term energy ...

such as the Mekong giant catfish (Pangasianodon gigas). Other speakers questioned the need for EGAT to commit to purchasing power from the dam, given the country’s excessive oversupply of ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower project has raised concerns it will cause water shortages downstream in India, where it is a ...

By Maureen Harris, Senior Advisor of International Rivers Today, 24 January 2025, marks three years since the unjust trial ...

“This means it’s not the normal Mekong water. It’s water that’s been stored behind a dam.” River water should instead be full of silt. The Mekong, South-east Asia’s main ...

Concerns were raised at a forum yesterday over the likelihood of the proposed construction of the Sanakham hydropower project ...

That is enough to meet the needs of more than 300m people and more than triple the capacity of the Three Gorges dam, which is ...

On December 25, the People’s Republic of China approved the construction of the world's largest hydropower dam on the Yarlung ...

PHNOM PENH--Electricity-starved Cambodia will not develop new hydropower dams on the Mekong River for the next 10 years, a senior energy official said on Wednesday, as it reviews its policy to ...

"We've certainly seen in many places in the Indo-Pacific that upstream dams that the Chinese have created, including in the Mekong region, can have really potentially damaging environmental but ...

Mekong's Forgotten Fishes, a new report published by WWF and ... Projects range from climate change to invasive species, dams to drought, pollution to pathogens and well beyond.